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Pictured: a 300-year-old library tool that enabled a researcher to have seven books open at once, yet conveniently nearby (Palafoxiana Library, Puebla)
@unmlawlibrary #globalmuseum #library #libraries #reading #history
Von Zeile zu Zeile.
Kluge Sonntagslektüren für Euch.
🖼️ Coen van Oven (1883-1963): Jules van Oven, Reading (1909)
#theartofreading #artofreading #reading #readerslife #readsistance
📚 My book review of The AI Con
The authors make a very clear argument against all merit of the current Media extrusion machines being peddled by Silicon Valley. The book lays it all out in all the details. Unfortunately it's not helpful in giving tools how to fight back, although that is to be expected. I higly recommend slapping the leadership of your organisation in the face with this book, or at the very least make them read it.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
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#BookReview #Books #Reading #Nonfiction #Politics #BusinessEconomics #TechnologySociety #InformationMediaStudies
The AI Con
A smart, incisive work of technology criticism that examines the technologies sold as artificial intelligence, the drawbacks of systems sold under this banner, and why it’s crucial to recognize the…Hayo Bethlehem
As a big fan of both Trek and Discworld, I support the flawless logic of this crossover 😜😂
@reading @bookstodon @books @fantasy
@humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiop
#GeekMemes #Geek #Meme
#Discworld #StarTrek #Spock #GreatAtuin
#Humor #Humour #Funny
#Fantasy #SciFi
#Reading #Readers #TV #Books #ReadingCommunity #Bookstodon #FantasyBooks
Mary Leuning - No place like home
#art #drawing #dessin #Leuning #lecture #reading #vendredilecture
Ein Text über Beharrlichkeit / Hartnäckigkeit und ihr emanzipatorisches (& seine reaktionären) Potenziale.
Ich glaube, dass ist der Einstieg zu Rebecca Comays gleichnamigen Groß-Essay, der gerade bei Seagull Books rausgekommen ist. Den will ich unbedingt lesen, auch weil das #Benjamin #Barocktheorie benachbart ist.
#disability #Gaza #sumud #philosophy #nonfiction #reading #longcovid #illness
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On Persistence - Notes - e-flux
Rebecca Comay on persisting, in philosophy, literature, politics, and illness.Rebecca Comay (e-flux)
Super Text zur Verteidigung der #Humanities #geisteswissenschaften auch gegen ihre eigenen verängstigten Praktiker*innen.
"It’s crazy that amidst our unending contrition we’ve forgotten a truism of academic life: that humanists are very obviously the best writers. Even our most cringe takes are good."
#science #reading #philosophy #universities #highered #woke2
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Humanists Have Done Nothing Wrong | Defector
For many years, I’ve held a pet theory that cultural consumers can be grouped into two broad categories: Primary Source People and Secondary Source People.David Hollingshead (Defector)
Can you please recommend some books for me to read (with audiobooks) based on these list of books I struggled to finish and others I loved?
Didn’t enjoy or DNF:
Dark Matter
Red Rising
The Left Hand of Darkness (I know, I know!)
Scythe (trilogy)
Babel
The Once and Future Witches
Books I’ve read multiple times or really enjoyed:
Piranesi
Mistborn series
Project Hail Mary
Atmosphere
Blood Over Bright Haven
The Mortal Instruments (series)
1984, Fahrenheit 451
The Awakening
Thanks 🤗
This could have been an article.
My current reading lineup. #reading #books #bookstodon
Ein Instagram Video von Molly Lee
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Warum Biblotheken so ein wichtiger Ort für Antifaschisten sind und
hol dir deine Antifa-Karte ;)
Hoofing it for the Love of Books - Lynette M. Burrows
For $28 a month, they carried books & magazines on horses or mules. This was the Packhorse Library project, hoofing it for the love of books.Lynette M Burrows (Lynette M. Burrows)
“What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? It’s the too huge world vaulting us, and it’s goodbye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.” ― Jack Kerouac, On the Road
#nature #roses #photography #photo #art #culture #uk #books #reading #media
Das erste und letzte Abenteuer von Kit Sawyer, von S. E. Harmon.
Eine #rezension:
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#wirlesemfrauen #buchbubble #reading #iamreading #lesetipp #buchtipp #books #wirlesenunabhaengig
Crossposted with @openvibe
S. E. Harmon: Das erste und letzte Abenteuer von Kit Sawyer – findos buecher
S. E. Harmon: Das erste und letzte Abenteuer von Kit Sawyerfindo (findos buecher)
On a long walk today, I found this neighborhood library in Wallingford, part of Seattle. The books available were all about food, including cookbooks. We have hundreds of these free libraries in the city, with new ones opening steadily. Most are quite plain. This is one of the best-designed I've seen. Bon appetit!
#reading #food #cookbooks #Seattle #urbanhiking #freelittlelibraries
Today with a review in English, because I read the book in English.
"The Last Time We Drowned" by Saratoga Schaefer.
After enjoying the reads of „Trad Wife“ and „Serial Killer Support Group“ by Saratoga Schaefer, I was curious about this novel.
1/x
#reading #kindle #koreader
GitHub - doctorhetfield-cmd/simpleui.koplugin: A highly customizable UI plugin for KOReader that features a home screen, bottom navigation bar, top bar and desktop modules/widgets.
A highly customizable UI plugin for KOReader that features a home screen, bottom navigation bar, top bar and desktop modules/widgets. - doctorhetfield-cmd/simpleui.kopluginGitHub
Another take on the importance of #reading....
Popolitique - Fables bucoliques autogérées
Cette bande dessinée a l'air vraiment bien, on peut lire des extraits sur ce site :
placedeslibraires.fr/livre/978…
Merci à @jamais+37 phil pour la découverte ;)
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#art #bd #comics #Popolitique #lecture #reading #vendredilecture
Popolitique (@Popolitique@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Ce n'était certainement pas un petit feu de forêt de rien du tout qui allait pousser Hortense et René dans les bras de ces dangereux escrolos d’ultragauche...Popolitique (Mastodon)
Areada
A minimal, offline-first Android reader for EPUB, TXT, and PDF files — no internet, no ads, no tracking.
Features:
• EPUB, TXT, and PDF support with saved reading progress
• Persistent bookmarks across all file types
• Reader controls: theme, font family, font size, and pinch-to-zoom
• EPUB chapter table of contents and PDF page navigation
• Basic local note-taking with plain .txt files
• and more
Download : github.com/iTsMe-Zen/Areada/re…
#FOSS #Android #OpenSource #epub #pdf #Reading
Release Areada-v1.1.2 · iTsMe-Zen/Areada
Areada 1.1.2 New Features and Major QoL Updates. Archive files can now be opened directly from file managers, including formats such as .tar, .xz, .7z, .epub.xz, and similar archives through share...GitHub
If you're interested in using the Fediverse's reading platform BookWyrm, you can import your existing data from Goodreads, LibraryThing, StoryGraph, OpenLibrary or Calibre. More info on how to do the import into BookWyrm in this guide:
➡️ fedi.tips/importing-your-data-…
If you want to find out more about BookWyrm, there's a general guide to it here:
➡️ fedi.tips/bookwyrm-a-social-ne…
#FediTips #BookWyrm #Books #Reading #Goodreads #LibraryThing #StoryGraph #OpenLibrary #Alternatives #Fediverse
BookWyrm: A social network for people who enjoy reading | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the FediverseFediTips (Fedi.Tips - An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse)
As high-profile websites vanish, it’s a reminder that the web has no built-in archival layer.
But some publishers are now blocking the Wayback Machine.
help.archive.org/help/faq-publ…
#Censorship #bannedbooks #crt #dei #blackhistory @blackvoices #waybackmachine #internetarchive #mastodon #fediverse #opensource #linux #news #history #socialmedia #resistance #protest #activism @socialmedia #publishers #book #reading #education #culture #Africa #Canada #USA #Europe #Asia #LatinAmerica #politics #ai
FAQ: Publishers Blocking the Wayback Machine – Internet Archive Help Center
FAQ: Publishers Blocking the Wayback MachineInternet Archive Help Center
The English department was "told they could no longer teach texts written by gay authors."
"We have even been told to censor novels with gay characters."
For Texas, it's goodbye Shakespeare & some half of the history of literature.
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#Teaching #Reading #Censorship #Education #Shakespeare #Texas
I love @bookwyrm #BookWyrm
It's not perfect, but it's good enough, and the community there is full of lovely people who are for the most part genuinely interested in sharing their love of #books and helping each other find something worthwhile to read.
The occasional communal gushing around especially excellent #books is also quite nice.
And it's one of the only social reading spaces where I feel like I can actually trust the #reviews, whether positive, negative, or neutral. For that matter, it's one of the few places online outside of dedicated book review blogs which actually contains a high proportion of thoughtful reviews.
#socialReading #reading #bookworm #bookstodon #bookreview #bookreviews #bookworms #bibliophile #bibliophiles #bibliophilia #book
Do you enjoy reading books? There's a social reading platform on the Fediverse called BookWyrm, which is a free open alternative to Amazon Goodreads. Lots more info at:
➡️ fedi.tips/bookwyrm-a-social-ne…
BookWyrm lets you import your existing account data from other platforms including Goodreads, LibraryThing, StoryGraph, OpenLibrary and Calibre.
If you want to use BookWyrm's features you should join a BookWyrm server:
#FediTips #Books #Reading #BookWyrm #GoodReads
BookWyrm: A social network for people who enjoy reading | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the FediverseFediTips (Fedi.Tips - An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse)
Place Frédéric Mistral
📍 Montségur-sur-Lauzon, France
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#BookCorners #FreeBooks #Books #StreetLibrary #Montségur-sur-Lauzon #France #bookexchange #streetart #wallmural #reading #french #beigewall #publiclibrary
Place Frédéric Mistral - Book Corners
Visit this little free library at Place Frédéric Mistral, Montségur-sur-Lauzon on Book Corners.Book Corners
It’s a first week of the school year edition of #ThursdayBooksandBeer and I’m reading The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and his Mother) by Lebanese-American author Rabih Alameddine. The book won last year’s National Book Award for Fiction and is set in Beirut from the 1960s to 2023. I’ve paired it with ‘Mead in Brunswick’, a mead made with orange blossom honey and oranges from Gales Brewing. “Laundry rejuvenated my mother. Cleanliness made her happy. Washed away old sins, old mistakes flushed in the rinse.” #reading #literature #Lebanon #craftbeer
Liebes #fediverse ,
unser neues Kulturprogramm für 2026 ist draußen! 🎉
Mehr Infos findet ihr hier: buchhandlung-am-bruehl.de/aktu…
Wir hoffen, dass für jede*n was dabei ist. :)
Gedruckt liegt das neue Programm Ende der Woche bei uns aus.
Liebe Grüße
Tina und Max
von der Buchhandlung am Brühl in #Chemnitz
#Veranstaltungen #Kultur #Lesung #Konzert #tacheles #buch #krimi #Literatur #literature #books #bucher #livres #dielinke #leipzig #dresden #erzgebirge #mittelsachsen #bookstodon #lesen #reading
Aktuelle Veranstaltungen – Buchhandlung am Brühl
Aktuelle Veranstaltungentlk_msg (Buchhandlung am Brühl)
Erstes #Buch 2026: Shadow Ticket von Thomas #Pynchon. Sehr gemocht, auch aus nostalgischen Gründe, weil das praktisch ein Prequel zu Gravity's Rainbow ist. (Vermutlich auch sein letzter Roman. Der Mann ist schließlich fast 90.)
#books #reading #bookstodon
#literature
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Sometime around the 2020 era, we lost the right to be mediocre at things we love.
No longer can you just bake bread...you must start a sourdough side hustle lol. Wanna stay fit and go jogging or running? Nah, you gotta optimize your biometrics for a marathon. What my point is that every hobby has been enshittified and gentrified into a brand opportunity.
This strange infatuation with optimization culture is killing the human spirit.
So this new year, starting tomorrow, one of my resolutions is to do something bad but fun. Maybe I write a terrible poem. I like to draw and paint, so perhaps I will draw a horse that looks like a table or sing off-key in the showers or in front of my loved ones. The algorithm driving the mainstream social media wants me to be a polished product, but my humanity lives in these messy, unoptimized, cringe-inducing joyful failures.
I will try to reclaim the right to be an amateur. Will you join me?
#creativity #hobbies #art #depression #socialmedia #newyear #resolution #happynewyear #MentalHealth #Culture #enshittification #creative #design #writing #reading #books #drawing #music #gardening #nature #running #fitness
BookWyrm is a Fediverse alternative to Amazon's Goodreads. It lets people keep track of their books, publish reviews and discover new titles. Find out more about BookWyrm at:
➡️ fedi.tips/bookwyrm-a-social-ne…
There's a list of servers you can sign up on at:
(The flagship is overcrowded, you might want to use a different server.)
You can import your data from Goodreads, LibraryThing, StoryGraph, OpenLibrary or Calibre:
I gave four stars to Vernon Lee's "Hauntings" . A fantastic read for #spooktober , and a must read for anybody interested in #queer #Literature
#books #review #lgbtqia #reading
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Review by tinido - Hauntings
Vernon Lee's Hauntings is a classic of psychological horror, and it's a perfect read for spook...app.thestorygraph.com
Endlich Lolly Willowes gelesen: perfektes Buch für mich. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
#literature #lesen #reading #frauenlesen #ReadingWomen
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Review by tinido - Lolly Willowes
I’m really a bit cross with myself, that it took me so long to read this. It’s really charming...app.thestorygraph.com
Das hat mir unerwartet viel Spaß gemacht & passt auch noch ins Benjamin-Rosenzweig-Messianismus oder Apokalypse-Leseprojekt. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
#literatur #lesen #prosa #apokalypse #rewriting #reading
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Review by tinido - Neulich starb Antigone
Ich hatte bissle anstrengende Lyrik erwartet, aber das ist eher so eine Art künstlerische Pros...app.thestorygraph.com