What I Am Reading Wednesday

[p_zeitgeist]

I didn't know this was a thing, but since I've seen two posts about it on my flist today I'm guessing that it is. Which gives me an excuse to mention that Ta-Nehisi Coates is launching a Leviathan reading group, in case anyone else is interested.

I've never read Leviathan (the embarrassing truth is that philosophy in general tends to make me

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[lady_ganesh]

I downloaded it to read on the plane, but then the Kindle said my version was unacceptable. Ugh.

[p_zeitgeist]

There's a Gutenberg edition, too -- a whole bunch of formats, from epub through pdf -- and somebody also said there was a Google Books version. Shall I try to chase down the links for you?

[lady_ganesh]

I actually downloaded the Gutenberg edition. I have it happen once before with a Gutenberg book.

[p_zeitgeist]

Well, damn. One more reason I'm just as happy not to use the kindle. The Calibre reader opens the Gutenberg version, but that doesn't exactly help when you're traveling.

If you're joining TNC's readalong, though, at least the first reading is very, very short. The Introduction turns out only to be a couple of pages -- if you can access the html or pdf at all, it's probably not more than a few screens even on a phone. (I say, with the happy confidence of someone who refuses to get a smartphone and has no damned idea what would actually fit on one of those screens. But honestly, there was much less reading for next Friday than I had feared.)

ETA: Or, duh, I could copy the Introduction into the body of an email or PM for you, if that's helpful. It's not like it's under copyright.

[lady_ganesh]

I normally just have to re-download it and delete the cruddy one. It's just impossible to do on the plane, which is where I tried reading it.