I believe as individuals and society we are over reliant on unnecessarily advanced technology and should seek alternatives to distance ourselves from this.
I feel about the same way, to the point I don't even really want print media to die. We're still looking at something right in front of us, but at least it isn't a screen. I've been framing it mentally as part of an intentional relationship I want to have with technology, and I think generally others should consider this too. Adopt technology selectively and critically, don't just let them foist new consumer durables on you, LOL.
I agree with this. I have a lot more trouble with online books compared to having it on paper in front of me. I prefer physical like this in alsmot everything
for any kinda in-depth research, going to my university library and grabbing all the relevant works and having them on hand to quickly switch between is so much better than having several tabs open.
Yeah, If you try to search for any book on libgen or zlibrary that is not in english, and for example in polish, then good fucking luck! It basically can be considered non existent! I hope that one day I can afford a CZUR book scanner to make this somewhat different as I do have a small collection of Marxist books that were published back in PRL and having scans available would be nice for a lot of people. Because that is the main problem Polish marxists have, lack of availability of materials as no new prints are being made, nothing has been scanned and many books were lost to burnings after 1989...
Prolewiki has some guides to scanning books without those machines if you want to look at them. If you scan them, it would be very intresting to look at as I could translate it into English to read since I’m sure many of those texts are only available in Polish I would think
I feel about the same way, to the point I don't even really want print media to die. We're still looking at something right in front of us, but at least it isn't a screen. I've been framing it mentally as part of an intentional relationship I want to have with technology, and I think generally others should consider this too. Adopt technology selectively and critically, don't just let them foist new consumer durables on you, LOL.
I agree with this. I have a lot more trouble with online books compared to having it on paper in front of me. I prefer physical like this in alsmot everything
My ereader is way easier to focus on than my phone. If you get one make sure it has e Ink because its easier on the eyes.
for any kinda in-depth research, going to my university library and grabbing all the relevant works and having them on hand to quickly switch between is so much better than having several tabs open.
As well as the fact there are so many books that are unavailable digitally and only available as physical books
Yeah, If you try to search for any book on libgen or zlibrary that is not in english, and for example in polish, then good fucking luck! It basically can be considered non existent! I hope that one day I can afford a CZUR book scanner to make this somewhat different as I do have a small collection of Marxist books that were published back in PRL and having scans available would be nice for a lot of people. Because that is the main problem Polish marxists have, lack of availability of materials as no new prints are being made, nothing has been scanned and many books were lost to burnings after 1989...
Prolewiki has some guides to scanning books without those machines if you want to look at them. If you scan them, it would be very intresting to look at as I could translate it into English to read since I’m sure many of those texts are only available in Polish I would think
First order of business is money. I need to get the scanner somehow.
Ah I see. I don’t know if any cheaper options for that to reccomend