Why are books so fricking awesome?
It's kinda insane how great they are.
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Why are books so fricking awesome? It's kinda insane how great they are.
Why are books so fricking awesome?
It's kinda insane how great they are.
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Wow anon you're such a reader! you must be very intelligent
>actually believes anon read all the books in the pic
lmao even
someone on IQfy posts about how much they love books and anon immediately takes a massive hit to their pride. par for the course for IQfy
If you throw me a softball, I will knock it out of the park
Come on, it was either me, him or that other anon to take the first swing.
Scrolls are superior
>Scrolls are superior
The rise of the codex to dominance was tied closely to the spread of Christianity, by the bye.
Why is that? Was there nothing before the Bible that needed to be book length? Isn’t Homer’s shit just as long
In brief (or not so brief as I keep adding quotes):
>All through the first three centuries C.E., people overwhelmingly favored the bookroll (“scroll”) for literary texts. Indeed, it was the prestige book form of that time. But, from the earliest scraps of identifiably Christian manuscripts onward, it is clear that Christians differed in preferring the codex, especially for those texts that they most prized and used as “scriptures.”
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>The codex was much more user-friendly than was the papyrus scroll: more portable, easier to store and handle, and less expensive to produce. It also allowed readers to quickly flip between sections. While reading a scroll was a two-handed activity, a codex could be propped open in front of a reader, allowing for note taking.
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>The codex was an improvement over the scroll in several ways. It could be opened flat at any page, allowing easier reading; the pages could be written on both recto and verso; and the codex, protected within its durable covers, was more compact and easier to transport.
>The codex also made it easier to organize documents in a library because it had a stable spine on which the title of the book could be written. The spine could be used for the incipit, before the concept of a proper title was developed, during medieval times.
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>Scroll formats are a bit of a pain in the neck to read as you cannot just quick turn to page 50 if you know there is something interesting on it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scroll
>It's like rewinding or winding forwards a videotape.
>There is also something interesting here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex
>>"As far back as the early 2nd century, there is evidence that the codex—usually of papyrus—was the preferred format among Christians"
>If your book is Cicero or Vergilius (Virgil) you may be OK with the videotape way of reading, but if it is the Bible, you are not using it that linearly but you need to look up a certain reference in a debate, for example. So it seems likely that the Bible strongly influenced the birth and widespreadness of the codex/book format. As it was certainly a book that usually was not used linearly.
https://www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2023/06/when-the-codex-overtook-the-scroll-as-the-format-for-books/
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-massmedia/chapter/3-2-history-of-books/
https://biblequestions.info/2019/11/02/why-were-the-early-christians-more-likely-to-write-on-a-codex-rather-than-a-scroll/
https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Codex
Thanks for the info anon, very cool
It was mostly a pragmatic choice and did not really have to do with Christianity, they just happened at the same time. The codex began replacing the scroll pretty much as soon as it showed up and was used for everything, not just Christian writings.
Stone tablets blocks your path
tablet paperwhite user checking in.
mine holds like 20 tablets and only weighs 30 pounds.
you stone guys gotta get with the times.
looks just like granite.
This is the James Joyce library in Dublin.
>Something went wrong.
My moment of moronation is now immortalized. This is the Trinity College library in Dublin.
Welcome to the club (/lit/) you will fit right in
Is that what the aisles are roped off?
It's basically a tourist attraction. Best thing to come from Trinity college since Beckett are those lovely toilets nobody uses that I like to shit in to save money on toilet paper. Trinity is full of annoying middle class losers and super rich chinese and Indian students who can barely speak English. Yes I hope to do my PHD there.
Thank you OP, very cool!
Libraries are the best.
This is my favorite dark souls level https://youtu.be/xnPain1R8Uo?t=58
Makes you wonder what kind of hellish, satanic shit is in those books and what you'd find interesting to read if things around you didn't try to murdalize you.
When I was a kid I had a daily allowance that I could use for playing video games
Usually it was 1 hour a day
I had to go to my mother and ask her to let me play, she'd say yes and then tell me my allowance was over later on
Afterwards I would get my books out and read and re-read them for hours
>i hecking love reading! did you read 1984 by jorj ore well? spooky stuff!!!
kys books are dogshit
Why are you here?
best post in IQfy history
>awesome
>insane
>great
Do you actually read, or just like the idea of it?
Do you?
clearly he doesnt
I wouldn’t say anything on lit is “clear”
I really like books too OP. I hope you read a good one next.
They are closing all the libraries.All across Europe and epubs and pdfs will be banned too. Only youtube shorts for everyone. Everyone will have a screen that they rent. Watching is mandatory. This is policy of democrats republicans conservatives labour fianna fail. This is because they are all in communicado with each other at Bilderberg and Trilateral Commision. Soon the libraries will be demolished. For looking too nice
Oh wow, you mean I get to be an underground book club resistance member like in my favorite hecking novel “Celsius 232.7”???
What about the Asian libraries
Least deranged IQfy poster
Because books are great, duh.
That’s not a “duh” sort of statement
Books are so numb and boring to me. So is music and movies and TV and games. I don't know why I'm subhuman. I don't like youtube or any of that either.
bet you're super into porn
No I don't jerk off or look at that stuff. Its gross.
What do you do for fun?
dream about death
Is death sublime in your dreams? Or is it a void?
Why do you post on lit?
retvrn to tradition
Do hot spring monkies also dream of death?
Books are awesome because you can read someone else's mind even after they're dead. Language allows us to transfer thoughts, books allow us to capture said thoughts. Its more impressive then holding a moon beam in your hand, it is a idea in your hand.
>BoOkS aRe HeCkInG aWeSoMe!!!!
How the frick can you homosexuals type this shit out unironically?