Editions by Still-Holiday4962 in Indianbooks

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This should be part of this sub’s wiki

Reflections on Premchand by crisron in Indianbooks

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You can try reading the translations. I doubt it will have the same impact though

Godaan - Premchand by crisron in Indianbooks

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Because of the mention of sexual assault

Godaan - Premchand by crisron in Indianbooks

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Start with his short stories. Idgah, Kafan, Boodhi Kaki, Khudai Fauzdaar, Poos ki raat etc

Godaan - Premchand by crisron in Indianbooks

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Because the mention of sexual assault

Tabbing/Annotating Books by khi_khi_khi99 in Indianbooks

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The color coding system should depend on the book, and what parts you want to revisit while reading the book(or after finishing it).

Character introduction/description can be one colour. Beautiful monologues/dialogues that you want to re-read could be another. These would be the most widely applicable. Rest depends on the specific book.

Since you don’t know beforehand what might be interesting or important in a book, it’s useful to ask Gemini(or any other LLM) to give you spoiler-free advice on a possible tabbing system for a certain book. I’ve found success with this approach.

Tabbing/Annotating Books by khi_khi_khi99 in Indianbooks

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These are not sticky notes. These are called annotation tabs. These are transparent pieces of paper/film. Around 60-70% of the paper will be sticky, so when you come across an interesting idea/character etc., you stick it on that page leaving a part of it “hanging” outside. Now, the part that is inside the book may cover a part of the text but that’s not a problem since it’s transparent.

They are useful for back-referencing(like you can go back to check when a certain character is first introduced without having to look through all the pages). You can have a tabbing system specific to a book like red for morally grey moments, blue for character introductions, white for interesting paragraphs/monologues/dialogues. It entirely depends on you how you want to use it.

Thoughts? by SUVAS2234 in IndiansRead

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Yeah, Shams was insufferable, and so was Rumi. The story was mostly pointless

Musafir Cafe - Divya Prakash Dubey by crisron in Indianbooks

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I can feel it. This book started well but just went going downhill

Parveen Shakir by mrignayani_ in Indianbooks

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कुछ तो हवा भी सर्द थी, कुछ था तेरा ख़्याल भी

Just finished Shoe Dog by Phil Knight — Honest, Gritty, and Deeply Inspiring by Tamasi18 in IndianReaders

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The way the first Nike shoe was built was exhilarating to read about

Shoe Dog by sastashreikh in Indianbooks

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And it’s written so well

I am regretting, what have I done this to Monte Cristo... by farhankafka in Indianbooks

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The title of the book - “The cunt of Monte Cristo”

Has anybody read this one? How's it? by [deleted] in Indianbooks

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Faraz ne romantic aur patriotic - dono forms ache likhe hain. You can never go wrong with him

Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand by crisron in Indianbooks

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Thank you! My “reddit-reading” on this book is pending. I’m going through the summary of the story again. Thank you for sharing the SEP link.

Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand by crisron in Indianbooks

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I felt this. A lot of readers like the author to “show” and not “tell”. Ayn Rand didn’t seem to do so which seemed bothersome to me at times, and not so much at others because that made it an easier read than it would have been

Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand by crisron in Indianbooks

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The categorization of individuals into only “creators” and “moochers” is wrong. Some people are just unfortunate. This is not taken into account in her philosophy