The Internet having destroyed my abilities of concentration, I'm looking for anything, preferably a web app, that can help me read large texts, like novels on a sentence-by-sentence basis.
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posted by Senza Volto
on May 26, 2012 -
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When I was very young, I read a series of books about dinosaurs, where each book was a fiction story (with educational information) about each species of dinosaur.. what books were those?
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posted by ceberon
on May 25, 2012 -
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What are some great (somewhat) recently released novels/books/memoirs with queer/LGBTQ themes or characters?
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posted by kylej
on May 23, 2012 -
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BookFilter: This book had some futuristic name for Australia. What's the name of the book?
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posted by Heretical
on May 20, 2012 -
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I have a large number of books that I want to donate to a library or sell. I want to give my friends and family first pick at anything they want (my primary aim is to quickly reclaim the physical space used up by the books). I need a workflow that will allow me to scan the books' UPCs, etc. with my iPhone 4's camera and end up with an email-able spreadsheet
pre-populated with ISBN/Title/Author. Columns for genre, edition and/or year, and short blurbs would also be welcome.
I have a PC laptop with the MS Office suite in addition to the iPhone. What are my options? Thanks, hivemind!
posted by Inspector.Gadget
on May 20, 2012 -
6 answers
I'm moving in about ten days, I'm disabled, and my mother (who is in her mid-sixties) is here helping me pack. I've got four of five hundred books, mostly paperbacks and mostly genre fiction, about which I'm finally being sensible and eliminating. The problem we're having is that it's almost as much trouble to get rid of these as it would have been to pack them.
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posted by Ivan Fyodorovich
on May 19, 2012 -
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Another "vague memory of childhood book" question. This one had to do with some kids and...something about the American
Revolution.
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posted by DestinationUnknown
on May 17, 2012 -
3 answers
Help me identify a young adult book I read in the late 70s or early 80s about a boy lost in the wilderness.
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posted by Occula
on May 17, 2012 -
5 answers
Name This Book: A children's chapter book (think Judy Blume) in which a nerdy girl named Fern gets lettuce stuck to her front tooth.
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posted by something something
on May 17, 2012 -
11 answers
Can you recommend a book about the meat culinary in South America? Bonus points if it's focused on Uruguay's or Brazil's cuisine
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posted by just_another_one
on May 16, 2012 -
3 answers
I want to give a standard starter library of awesome children's picture books as baby shower gifts for my close friends who are first time mothers. What should I include?
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posted by charmedimsure
on May 16, 2012 -
37 answers
Writers I like: Johan Huizenga, A. S. Neill, Christopher Alexander, Philippe Gaulier, James Paul Gee. Thoughts I'm interested in: the systemic formation of culture; how we interact with and are shaped by said systems; how those systems emerge as part of a "playful" procedure; how play is often used as a release from cultural standards. Who else will I like? What ideas will fascinate me further?
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posted by Rory Marinich
on May 10, 2012 -
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Please recommend me some novels (or movies) about the confusion and ridiculousness of being in your early 20s.
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posted by ad4pt
on May 9, 2012 -
28 answers
In
1Q84, as in many of his other books, Haruki Murakami frequently tells us what music his characters are listening to, providing a de facto soundtrack to the novel. What other authors suggest or provide soundtracks to their works and/or what other written works basically have soundtracks?
posted by davidjmcgee
on May 8, 2012 -
28 answers
I have a library of over 500 books that I'd like to sell, online probably. How do I go about it?
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posted by phaedon
on May 4, 2012 -
12 answers
I just finished writing my first children's book. Hooray! Now I have fingernail biting anxiety regarding the agent querying process. Please help.
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posted by melangell
on May 4, 2012 -
6 answers
Help me optimize my vacation reading! I’m headed out to the Outer Banks next month, and there’s nothing on the agenda but reading and relaxing. I’m having trouble coming up with a week’s worth of new reading material that won’t take up significant space in our truck, though. Can you recommend me lengthy or dense books--in other words, books that will give me maximum entertainment minutes per page--that are still fun vacation reading?
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posted by House of Leaves of Grass
on May 4, 2012 -
34 answers
Please recommend stories about mental battles. Specifically, people overcoming deep-seated fears or beliefs.
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posted by fix
on May 3, 2012 -
7 answers
A science fiction writer described a world where people could get from a parallel world anything that had been put in there by others. That's all I know. Who was that author and what was the story's title?
posted by vladimirfrolov
on Apr 27, 2012 -
3 answers
What's the cheapest way to send a single normal-sized book weighing about a pound from the US to Japan?
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posted by No-sword
on Apr 24, 2012 -
5 answers
I get to spend two months this summer in New York City, and I'm gonna hit as many art museums as I can, all genres and kinds. What should I read first to get the most out of the experience?
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posted by Apropos of Something
on Apr 22, 2012 -
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moviefilter question: a film from probably the 80's. it takes place at a medieval university, i believe. a new initiate is taken to a hidden room, where the monks/professors/whatever they are have kept copies of all the texts that have been banned by the church or the powers that be. any ideas?
posted by camdan
on Apr 21, 2012 -
7 answers
Akashic Books Noir Series. Which are your favorites?
Each book is an anthology of original short stories. It looks like they've published over fifty volumes. I find they differ greatly in style and overall quality of writing. It makes sense... each anthology has its own editor.
I'd like to read the volumes that have the best quality writing, and are the most fun. Here's what I've read so far, in most favored order:
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posted by valannc
on Apr 21, 2012 -
3 answers
What books would you recommend for an almost 6-year-old girl who reads at a second grade level?
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posted by lea724
on Apr 18, 2012 -
30 answers
Please recommend some non-fiction books about Philippines, and fiction set in Philippines.
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posted by vidur
on Apr 17, 2012 -
14 answers
Book recommendations please! I need fiction about difficult or complicated relationships.
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posted by gursky
on Apr 17, 2012 -
37 answers
I want to mainline wonder! Recommend me nonfiction books or films (science, nature, history, culture, the human mind) that will make me fall in love with the world we live in.
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posted by stuck on an island
on Apr 15, 2012 -
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In my fantasy life, I move to a remote area of the United States (like somewhere in New Mexico), buy a small home with a garden for tomatoes and herbs, wear long dresses, buy a faithful dog for a companion, write novels and take gorgeous, brooding young men for lovers. Please recommend to me some books with characters (real or fictional) who have lived this life.
posted by nubianinthedesert
on Apr 10, 2012 -
11 answers
Research-filter: Looking for reading recommendations on two topics: 1) syphilis in the 19th (and very early 20th) century, particularly
tabes dorsalis, and 2) prostitution in Vienna during the same time period. (More broadly: the experience of serious and/or terminal illness during the same period; bonus points for information about women, particularly the emotional trauma of chronic pain, losing one’s beauty/youth/sexuality, etc.)
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posted by scody
on Apr 9, 2012 -
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