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Born in 1852, Mary Titcomb had a strong desire for an education & career.

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
Mary Lemist Titcomb at the time of her graduation from the Robinson Female Seminary in 1873 Credit: Unknown
Mary Titcomb’s “Book Wagon”. Credit: Washington County Free Library

Library on Wheels: Mary Lemist Titcomb and America's First Bookmobile eBook : Glenn, Sharlee: Amazon.com.au: Kindle Store

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#history #books #library

As a little girl, I only ever saw people like me in books about Thanksgiving, written by white people.
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
Flat lay of three paperback books on top of lace and faux florals. Included is “An Indigenous People’s’ History of the United States”, “Ancestor Approved”, and “The Only Land I Know”.
#authors #books #diverse #indigenous #reads #bookstodon

the most energy efficient means of travel #books
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The next time anybody tries to coopt #TerryPratchett into their weird transphobic cult (against the advice of literally everybody who knew him) please remind them that he wrote this in 1995.

"We've got extra pronouns here"

#Discworld #books #literature #Fantasy
Picture of text from a discworld nove; - “Female? He told you he was female?” “She,” Angua corrected. “This is Ankh- Morpork, you know. We’ve got extra pronouns here.” She could smell his bewilderment... “Well, I would have though she’d have the decency to keep it to herself,” carrot said finally. “I don’t think it’s very clever, you know, to go around drawing attention to the fact.” “Carrot, I think you might have something wrong with your head,” said Angua. “What?” “I think you might have it stuck up your bum.” — Terry Pratchett - Feet Of Clay
#fantasy #discworld #books #literature #terrypratchett

Tegnap kezdődött és szerdáig tart (minden nap 10-16 óráig) az ELTE #BTK #Könyvbazár . Mindenféle kincsre lehet bukkani a királyi angol nyelvjárástól a kortárs spanyol drámáig (és ezek még csak az én mai fogásaim:) Ráadásul a bevétel mindig közhasznú célra van felhasználva, ezúttal a kari könyvtár támogatására. #könyv

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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,...
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that denotes the book you referred to.

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...
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#internet #media #web #books #society #hyperlink #monopoly

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“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
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