The collected works of Lenin?

[Rooster]

I've seen some of the volumes for sale in this second hand book shop here and I was thinking about picking them up, well maybe some of them. Hard back, printed in moscow (I think) 1964, £5.99 each. It's not the complete collection though. I think it's like 3 to about 40 something with a bunch missing in between. Anyway, I was wondering if they were set out by topic or if it was just chronological? Are there any volumes that are worth getting and are there just some that are more or less historical curiosities that just for the hardcore Lenin fan that I should avoid getting?

[SHORAS]

I've seen some of the volumes for sale in this second hand book shop here and I was thinking about picking them up, well maybe some of them. Hard back, printed in moscow (I think) 1964, £5.99 each. It's not the complete collection though. I think it's like 3 to about 40 something with a bunch missing in between. Anyway, I was wondering if they were set out by topic or if it was just chronological? Are there any volumes that are worth getting and are there just some that are more or less historical curiosities that just for the hardcore Lenin fan that I should avoid getting?

When I was looking at buying selected/collected works I went to the marxists.org site and had a look what was in what edition it was very useful. I found that I could get the best texts in the cheapest volume sometimes. Unless you want specific texts, generally I think selected works are the best way to go. Though for instance I bought M&E CW's V.4 because it had several texts I wanted in but it is probably the only CW's I would buy of theirs.

[RedTrackWorker]

I would say: buy a kindle and download marxists.org onto it

[Искра]

Computerized text and book will never be the same. I would say buy them all if you have money. Personaly, I'm planning to buy 8 vol's of Kardelj's self-managment. They are around 4€ by book in second hand shop.

[Smyg]

I hate reading on a computer, paper copies are the way to go. Hurts my eyes otherwise.

[Искра]

I print every txt with more than 15 pages :D

[RedTrackWorker]

Computerized text and book will never be the same.


I hate reading on a computer, paper copies are the way to go. Hurts my eyes otherwise.


I print every txt with more than 15 pages :D

The Kindle is an e-ink screen: electronic ink--it's exactly the same on your eyes as reading a book, which is why I recommend it (the Kindle Fire is a tablet, i.e. computer screen, so does have the eye strain). Considering the cost of printing or buying books, if you're going to be reading stuff like Lenin's Collected Workers or other stuff from marxists.org, it's both cheaper to get the Kindle and much easier to carry around, etc. Plus if you don't like reading on the computer, you can put all that stuff on it too. (Gawd, I must sound like a Kindle salesperson but just trying to spread the word--it's a very helpful device in my opinion, makes reading much easier.)

[Искра]

Ok, I can recoqnise that as usefuly technology. Still, book is a book.

[Rooster]

I would say: buy a kindle and download marxists.org onto it

I'm considering it but I still prefer to have a pile of books around and I like to read a book in the bath.


I would say buy them all if you have money.

That's the thing, I don't have the money. I spend enough moola on books as it is and I hence have this big pile of stuff that I've still to read. I'm not sure how long, or even if, I would manage to get through all of the texts in every volume.

[Aurora]

I would say: buy a kindle and download marxists.org onto it

Aye, the problem is marxists.org only has a couple books converted to ebooks, for Lenin for instance they only have two ebooks and their other authors only a couple ebooks too, i found a torrent of a couple Trotsky ebooks but no luck yet for Lenin.

[CommieTroll]

The Kindle is an e-ink screen: electronic ink--it's exactly the same on your eyes as reading a book, which is why I recommend it (the Kindle Fire is a tablet, i.e. computer screen, so does have the eye strain). Considering the cost of printing or buying books, if you're going to be reading stuff like Lenin's Collected Workers or other stuff from marxists.org, it's both cheaper to get the Kindle and much easier to carry around, etc. Plus if you don't like reading on the computer, you can put all that stuff on it too. (Gawd, I must sound like a Kindle salesperson but just trying to spread the word--it's a very helpful device in my opinion, makes reading much easier.)

Is it hard to get Marxists.org on a Kindle?, I'm thinking of getting the £89 version from Amazon. Are there many different versions?

[Искра]

That's the thing, I don't have the money. Steal the book.

[Apoi_Viitor]

That's the thing, I don't have the money. I spend enough moola on books as it is and I hence have this big pile of stuff that I've still to read. I'm not sure how long, or even if, I would manage to get through all of the texts in every volume.

Get a kindle.

BTW, I have the fourth volume (I think...) in the Lenin's Collected Works. I picked it up for 50 cents, but I certainly wouldn't recommend paying over five dollars for it. Most of it is very highly specialized/specific essays. Also, IIRC it's set out chronologically, but I don't have it on me.

[Meditation]

Books are way more powerful than internet, an book writer needs to be schooled,and thought but on internet every noob can write everything he wants even if it isnt true and people fell on such things.
If i were you i would get Memories of Lenin.

Happy Reading

[TheGodlessUtopian]

I would say: buy a kindle and download marxists.org onto it

How is this possible? Can you provide links and instructions?

[Apoi_Viitor]

How is this possible? Can you provide links and instructions?

Just open up the works in google chrome or firefox and then save them as a pdf.

[TheGodlessUtopian]

Just open up the works in google chrome or firefox and then save them as a pdf.

So there is no button where all of them are downloaded at once? I have to go to each one individually?

[Apoi_Viitor]

So there is no button where all of them are downloaded at once? I have to go to each one individually?

Unfortunately yes. Or you could just search soulseek or scribd.

[Rooster]

Steal the book.

Trust me, normally I would but they have them all behind the counter apart from one copy on a shelf with a note attached.

[RedTrackWorker]

Aye, the problem is marxists.org only has a couple books converted to ebooks, for Lenin for instance they only have two ebooks and their other authors only a couple ebooks too, i found a torrent of a couple Trotsky ebooks but no luck yet for Lenin.


Is it hard to get Marxists.org on a Kindle?, I'm thinking of getting the £89 version from Amazon. Are there many different versions?


How is this possible? Can you provide links and instructions?

There are different ways to do it but you can use calibre (free) to convert pretty much any format into kindle format. So you can download the files you want from MIA, convert w calibre, put on kindle. Since its legal, could we set up a revleft repository somewhere so we're not duplicating work?

[SHORAS]

A Kindle is probably a good example of something in a future communist society which will be very useful and necessary i.e makes books relatively redundant. Sorry for all the book lovers but due to the amount of paper and poor ickle trees that get used up books should be no more. Also the sharing and technological features of electronics (like the Kindle) should make books in this case even more useful to us all.

As it goes I actually prefer books, but for the sake of communism I can relent.:D
Don't actually own a Kindle either.

Now you've all brought it up I kind of do want a Kindle though. My sister brought one with her when she visited and I said you could read stuff off the net on it, she looked nonplussed. Got Marxists.org on the thing and she was over the moon! :cool: (not at the website, just that she could read books off the net)

I did psyops her though cos later she was asking me about communism :lol:

[Aurora]

There are different ways to do it but you can use calibre (free) to convert pretty much any format into kindle format. So you can download the files you want from MIA, convert w calibre, put on kindle. Since its legal, could we set up a revleft repository somewhere so we're not duplicating work?
That's a great idea :) when i download files from MIA all the chapters are in separate files, is there a way to download them as one file?

[RedTrackWorker]

That's a great idea :) when i download files from MIA all the chapters are in separate files, is there a way to download them as one file?

I use a program called "free download manager" to download whole directories, then zip and add to calibre to convert to kindle format.