Unpopular Opinions Society

Let me guess, is it for argumentative purposes? :p

I thought the same.:D

I love my Kindle, I usually download books to read and I very rarely buy books but if I do I pass them on to a charity shop as I got rid of all my books a few years ago. I would love to have a minimalist house with no clutter.
 
On my phone alone I have Les Miserables, On the Origin of Species, The Bible (for reference), Lovecraft's complete works, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (which I believe is like half of the total work of the series), and Dracula. I have more on my iPad, such as a couple H.G. Wells classics. Didn't pay a penny for any of them.

If you like Lovecraft, check out Robert W. Chambers or Arthur Machen. Both should be free from Project Gutenberg.
 
If you like Lovecraft, check out Robert W. Chambers or Arthur Machen. Both should be free from Project Gutenberg.

I am the BIGGEST Lovecraft fan.

Machen made some good deities, Chambers invented the King in Yellow so I'm cool with him. I'll check out some of their works at some point when I have less things to read. :P
Let me guess, is it for argumentative purposes? :p

I have them placed next to each other just for shits and giggles.
 
I also use long-reads websites and instapaper to send long online articles to my kindle to read later. I also follow some blogs of specialized interest, and use a program to automatically send those blogs to my kindle for reading offline. I do a little bit of borrowing from my public library's ebook lending system as well.

I have Instapaper but always forget to use it. Thank you for reminding me of it.

I borrowed an ebook from my public library, but accidentally chose the wrong format so now I have to either figure out how to get to the file or just wait until it expires and borrow it again.

I keep downloading classics and then never reading them because I'm not that interested.

I'm currently reading some books on my iPad that I didn't pay for, but I probably shouldn't talk about that. :p
 
Musical or Comedy should be two separate categories.
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Bad mistake! BAD MISTAKE!
 
Thanks to this thread and 42, I now have a collection on my kindle entitled "For shits and giggles". It contains only two things: The Bible and the Origins of Species.

I also have a collection called "42" which has the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Good Omens in it. :p But I've had that for months.


Anyway, as for an unpopular opinion. I hate sage and rosemary. I've just had to cook something which has loads of sage in it (it's a dish my mother wanted) and I can't bring myself to eat it because it smells like lamb to me. It's a completely vegan butternut squash risotto but sage = lamb according to my brain. It's been 6 bloody years but I still can't disassociate the two.
 
Thanks to this thread and 42, I now have a collection on my kindle entitled "For shits and giggles". It contains only two things: The Bible and the Origins of Species.

I also have a collection called "42" which has the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Good Omens in it. :p But I've had that for months.

I LOVE YOU. Not just for the shits and giggles thing, but for the 42 collection, because both of those are great novels. At least, I know HGttG is. I've heard good things about Good Omens, however.
 
But... but... paper books! Magic! Nice smells!

:p

One good thing about having Good Omens on my kindle. I don't take my kindle in the bath so there's no chance of me dropping it in it. Also, the kindle version won't fall to pieces and have to have the pages held together with sellotape and string.
Downside is that I won't be able to get it signed.

If you read the foreword of Good Omens you'll understand. {/spoiler]
 
One good thing about having Good Omens on my kindle. I don't take my kindle in the bath so there's no chance of me dropping it in it. Also, the kindle version won't fall to pieces and have to have the pages held together with sellotape and string.
Downside is that I won't be able to get it signed.


This is actually a drawback for me. I've run out of bathtub reading material because everything I'm reading now is digital, no way I'm taking that into the bath.
 
People who dwell on the past annoy me. Specifically, past technologies. I think there's a certain sentimentality about things that needs to go out the window if we're to progress as a species.

Things like letter writing, paper books, the "absolute necessity" of face-to-face contact for human relationships, factory farming (obviously), the superiority of human labor, and high regards for organized religion are all obsolete. I know that sounds exactly like something that someone of my generation would say, and, well, hey, that's the point! That's okay! Things are evolving. So when people stick around on the past, on ways of doing things that are costly to us or the planet, I get annoyed.


I don't think it is sentimentality.

Letter writing: Sorry, but you can't email glitter, confetti, pressed flowers, and other goodies the way you can when you send a letter. So that's not practical.

Paper books: I tried getting a textbook on my kindle and ended up wanting to chuck it through the window. I need to be able to physically highlight and underline. It is also WAY easier to navigate a paper book than a kindle, in my opinion.

Face to face contact: Ever been in a long-distance relationship? Face to face contact is very necessary. Humans need touch.
 
I've never been a bathtub reader. The thought of dropping something in the tub...oh the horror! I do like to listen to music while bathing, though.
 
I've dropped countless books and magazines in the bath. Usually not all the way, the top will be fine and then the lower half will be all puffy and wavy. It's been a while since its happened, but I'm still wary. (I listen to music, too, but I also need visual stimulation. Otherwise I get bored after about five minutes. If I have something to read, I could be in there for an hour.)