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"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 hadn’t 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 it’s a good thing, isn’t it, that they’re in the right hands at the moment? Isn’t it nice that we all get along so well?" - Jingo by Terry Pratchett, by jingo
#GNUTerryPratchett #Discworld #satire #reading #books #NotMyKing #AbolishTheMonarchy
#introduction
"10 PRINT is a book about a one-line Commodore 64 BASIC program, published in November 2012."
Full PDF (CCA-NC-SA) available from the book's website: https://10print.org/
#books #retrocomputing #c64 #basic
10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10
About 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10, a book from the MIT Press10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10
https://www.themarysue.com/amazon-punishes-authors-whose-work-is-pirated-due-to-aggressive-exclusivity-clause/
#Amazon #books #publishing #piracy #ebooks #kindle
Amazon Punishes Authors Whose Work Is Pirated, Due to Aggressive Exclusivity Clause | The Mary Sue
Amazon sparks outrage by punishing its Kindle Unlimited authors for exclusivity violations when their work is pirated out of their control.Rachel Ulatowski (The Mary Sue)
Don't do that.
Mary became a librarian & making #books accessible to everyone was a priority. She came up with a children’s room & set up “book stations” in shops & post offices in town.
But Mary noticed people from rural areas weren’t visiting the #library. So, she secured funding to build & begin the nation’s first bookmobile. 📚
https://www.amazon.com.au/Library-Wheels-Titcomb-Americas-Bookmobile-ebook/dp/B078W6SQZQ #history
This is how my bookstore, Paperbacks & Frybread came to be.
We launched online March of this year, vowing to help families of all kinds have easier access to THEIR stories and other #diverse & inclusive #reads.
It has been the most joy curating our selection and hearing feedback from people who didn’t realize there were #books and #authors with people just like them.
#indigenous #bookstodon
"We've got extra pronouns here"
#Discworld #books #literature #Fantasy
Fb esemény/event: https://fb.me/e/febWKxZOg
This week Mon-Wed (10 a.m. to 4 p.m.) there is a book sale on the Faculty of Humanities campus. (There are #books in multiple languages.)
ELTE BTK Könyvbazár
✨Sziasztok! 📚Idén sem maradhat el a könyvbazár, így mielőtt elvonulnánk felkészülni a vizsgákra lehetőségetek nyílik néhány könyvet megkaparintani. 🗳Az eddigi alkalmakhoz hasonlóan,...fb.me
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8201080-the-master-switch#this :)
#Books #Society #Internet #Web #Monopoly #Media
The Master Switch
In this age of an open Internet, it is easy to forget that every American information industry, beginning with the telephone, has eventua...www.goodreads.com
Hi all, I'm jmechner on #Twitter #Instagram, new here! I do #videogames, #books, #screenwriting and #comics.
I made #PrinceofPersia and #Karateka on #AppleII using rotoscoped #animation & released my #gamedev #journal. Nowadays I write & draw #graphicnovels #BD and #sketchbook #sketching. I'm from #USA, live in #France.
Interested in #drawing #art #illustration #games #gaming #retrogames #retrogaming #film #cinema #tech #technology #history. Suggestions welcome!
#Books #Embroidery. (11 photos)
10 How-To Embroidery Books Filled With Creative Stitching Projects
https://mymodernmet.com/how-to-embroidery-books/
“What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.”
Carl Sagan, Cosmos (free pdf) [+]
#CarlSagan #books #reading #quote