Aaaaaargh. I want to buy all the books, but I don't want to spend all the money. Truly, life is suffering. :/
@chalcedony Library is on the other side of town and it' cold. And I don;t have enough time to read the books before I have to return them. And also I want to have them for reference, and so I can loan them to my friends and family to read. :/
@Angle @chalcedony many libraries have a digital option where you can check out ebooks for a limited time for free!
@Angle I relate 300%
Even if I only buy ratty .99 cents bargain bin copies I still don't have enough dosh for all books I want to read
Thrift shops to the rescue!
Actually nvm the thrift shops over here have horrible book prices, too. ;-;
@MutoShack Mmm, yeah I'd check used book stores, but I'm not sure they'd have the books I'm looking for. :/
@Angle there are actually 2 subproblems here. In neither case are you solving suffering alone.
1) The problem of distributing books, and you getting access to books. You can help with this, by helping to transcribe existing books into digital text, and putting said books on hard-to-censors platforms like #tribler
2) the problem of rewarding the authors
You can use https://villages.cc to allocate trust to said authors, and then look for ways of improving the lives of the people around you.
@Angle In both case the key to solving the problem is to not work as an individual against an impossible barrier between you and 'the books', but to see that it's a many:many problem that, as a group, we can solve together.
@jeffcliff Hmm, interesting. I'll look more into it when it's not almost midnight. XD
@Angle What kind of books?
@jtl Surfing uncertainty, red plenty, seeing like a state, all the speculative fiction ever written, etc, etc. XD
@Angle so much easier to finish one at a time without the distraction of the other ones. if we're talking tech related books and learning anyways. At least that's how i feel. *as i have four books by my bed and two on the floor*
@Angle ◽ Library time?