Forced to use my phone during a windows update which breaks my computer. My phone is shitty and slow. Google is full of unhelpful results. Youtube is showing nothing but political ads about ms-13 killing white people.

Truly 2024 is great.

  • @Crikeste@lemm.ee
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    256 months ago

    Speaking of; what’s the best place to get the essential reading? Feels fucking weird to get them through Barnes or Amazon lmao I’m not SO opposed to it, it’s just the way things are now. I just am curious if there’s better options.

    • fart [he/him]
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      6 months ago

      most college libraries have a great collection and sometimes offer a free card to the general public

      • @Crikeste@lemm.ee
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        146 months ago

        Thanks!

        I decided to at least pick up my thumbs and do a little search myself. Found a website called ThriftBooks that seems pretty cool. My sister is a book nerd as well, I’m sure she could point me to a proper place.

    • Wertheimer [any]
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      136 months ago

      bookshop.org for new books. abebooks is probably best for used books, but even they are owned by Amazon. Sometimes you can find books on there and then go to the listed bookstore’s own site, but more often than not they’ll just be using the abebooks engine there, too.

    • @Teils13@lemmy.eco.br
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      106 months ago

      If you want to support the author, there is always the option to pirate the book, and see if he or she has pages to receive donations (paypal, bitcoin, patreon, etc) or you can just email then money.

    • LanyrdSkynrd [comrade/them, any]
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      76 months ago

      I recently bought a cool looking 1920’s copy of State and Revolution from eBay for $15. I’ve had good luck buying used leftist books from there, especially the ones that were printed in large numbers.

      To add to the ebook recommendations, Anna’s archive has the biggest pirate collection of ebooks online.

    • vovchik_ilich [he/him]
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      46 months ago

      For Spanish-speakers, I think that the biggest editor of communist literature in the Spanish language is the Fundación Federico Engels