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βMore than 90% of the public library digital market is controlled by one private equity leveraged company that bypasses the library through their app, which makes digital readers think the rental app is their library. In the worst case scenario, this decision gives publishers carte blanche to continue to force libraries into unconscionable monopoly contracts and lock them into their closed surveillance apps.β
https://www.libraryfutures.net/post/were-still-fighting-for-fair-use
#tech #reading #books #library
Library Futures | Hachette v. Internet Archive: We're Still Fighting for Fair Use
Championing the right to equitable access to knowledge.www.libraryfutures.net
Internet Archive Loses Landmark E-Book Lending Copyright Appeal Against Publishers
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that IA's practice of scanning and lending copyrighted books without permission is not fair use.Ernesto Van der Sar (TF Publishing)
#TomGauld on how to manage your #UnreadBooks pile β cartoon | #Books | The Guardian
Tom Gauld on how to manage your unread books pile β cartoon
Checks and balances β¦Tom Gauld (The Guardian)
Serbian inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist Nikola Tesla was born #OTD in 1856.
Some of TeslaΒ΄s inventions and innovations: alternating Current (AC) system; induction motor; Tesla coil; wireless transmission of electricity; radio technology; remote control; neon and fluorescent lighting; X-Ray technology; Tesla turbine; oscillators and frequency generators.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla
Books by Nikola Tesla at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/5067
Books by Tesla, Nikola (sorted by popularity)
Project Gutenberg offers 73,924 free eBooks for Kindle, iPad, Nook, Android, and iPhone.Project Gutenberg
#TomGauld on how to have a #bookcase worthy of all your #SocialMedia feeds β #cartoon | #Books | The Guardian
Ok, #fedibrain - How cool would it be to have a book by @pluralistic like Little Brother illustrated by @davidrevoy ?
If such a collaboration already exists, please point me to where I can buy it!
#books #CreativeCommons #bookstodon
The Big Bang of Numbers
How to Build the Universe Using Only Math
An engaging and imaginative tour through the fundamental mathematical conceptsβfrom arithmetic to infinityβthat form the building blocks of our universe.
Someone scanned βAn Atlas of Insect Morphologyβ by Steinmann and Zombori β a book that is rare and expensive. you can find it here. #books #reference #insects #drawing #ants #antArt #resources #share
https://href.li/?https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dzL4bULHRQO3hv1_0PevYkDJGVaPiS8C/view?usp=sharing
If you read a book and liked it, please talk about it. It doesn't have to be a review, although those really do help.
Just, tell a friend. Post "this book was pretty rad!" somewhere.
If no one talks about a book, it basically doesn't exist for lots of people.
Thank you kindly!
#Books
Back in March, when the #fediverse came together to help save us, we changed our name to βTexas Observer Lives!β
Today, we changed it back to just "Texas Observer" because we need YOUR HELP to survive into 2024! It's up to our readers to preserve the voice of progressive #Texas by joining our fall membership drive.
Please consider joiningβor renewingβtoday! https://hype.co/@texasobserver/zdmn6ya7
#journalism #JournoLife #Nonprofit #fundraising #news #culture #books #politics
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Twice in the past three days, I stumbled on a piece of printed media younger than a decade old mentioning a URL to an online video game that doesn't exist anymore.
Once in a Spirit Animals book by Brandon Mull that my 9 year-old daughter picked at the book barn specifically for it. She was disappointed but read the book anyway. The link now redirects to the series presentation on the publisher website.
Second in LEGO instructions for a 2014 set, there's an full-page advertisement for the PC/Android/iOS game LEGO City My City doesn't exist anymore anywhere I looked.
The difference in longevity between the two mediums is striking.
There's a social reading platform called @bookwyrm which is an alternative to Amazon's Goodreads. BookWyrm is part of the Fediverse, and BookWyrm accounts can be followed from Mastodon etc. You can find out more at:
β‘οΈ https://joinbookwyrm.com
They are currently trying to get BookWyrm translated into more languages, so that more readers can use it. If you speak a language other than English, you can help translate at:
β‘οΈ https://translate.joinbookwyrm.com
#BookWyrm #Fediverse #GoodReads #Books
Join Bookwyrm
BookWyrm is a decentralized social network for tracking your reading, talking about books, writing reviews, and discovering what to read next.joinbookwyrm.com
The books have been removed by now, but probably only because the author, Jane Friedman, went public.
#books #AI #copyright
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/aug/09/amazon-removes-books-generated-by-ai-for-sale-under-authors-name
Amazon removes books βgenerated by AIβ for sale under authorβs name
Jane Friedman claims she had to fight against Amazonβs refusal to remove the misattributed titles because she had not trademarked her nameElla Creamer (The Guardian)
In 2011 they began to digitize the library. All books are indexed and about 20% have been fully digitized.
More:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakya_Monastery
#Books #Library #Monastery #Tibet #History #Knowledge #Monks #Buddhism #Sakya
As they say on their website, "Support Local Bookstores on Prime Day! Close the book on Amazon!"
@bookstodon
#Books
#PrimeDays
Os LusΓadas (1572), Canto V
LuΓs Vaz de CamΓ΅es died #OTD in 1580. He wrote a considerable amount of lyrical poetry & drama but is best remembered for his epic work Os LusΓadas. His collection of poetry The Parnasum of LuΓs de CamΓ΅es was lost during his life.
Books by LuΓs de CamΓ΅es at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1183
#books #literature #poetry
Books by CamΓ΅es, LuΓs de (sorted by popularity)
Project Gutenberg offers 70,877 free eBooks for Kindle, iPad, Nook, Android, and iPhone.Project Gutenberg
"Vimes didn't like the phrase 'The innocent have nothing to fear', believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like 'The innocent have nothing to fear'."
#GNUTerryPratchett #books #reading #quotation #quotations
"There was nothing like the massed ranks of wizardry walking sedately through the city in a spirit of civic amicability to subtly remind the more thoughtful kind of person that it hadnβt always been this way. Look at us, the wizards seemed to be saying. We used to rule this city. Look at our big staffs with the knobs on the end. Any one of these could do some very serious damage in the wrong hands so itβs a good thing, isnβt it, that theyβre in the right hands at the moment? Isnβt it nice that we all get along so well?" - Jingo by Terry Pratchett, by jingo
#GNUTerryPratchett #Discworld #satire #reading #books #NotMyKing #AbolishTheMonarchy