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#TomGauld on #cooking – #cartoon | #Books | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/books/picture/2025/feb/15/tom-gauld-on-cooking-cartoon
So I'm rereading Pterry Pratchett's GUARDS! GUARDS! and I swear to you, that book is a phenomenal meditation on how tyranny can sweep a reasonably peaceful nation, and what needs to be done to dislodge draconian rulers.
Now more relevant than ever.
“More 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.”
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
Serbian inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist Nikola Tesla was born #OTD in 1856.
Some of Tesla´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
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 concepts—from arithmetic to infinity—that form the building blocks of our universe.
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 “Texas Observer Lives!”
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 joining—or renewing—today! 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:
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:
➡️ 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 ‘generated by AI’ for sale under author’s name
Jane Friedman claims she had to fight against Amazon’s 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 Lusíadas (1572), Canto V
Luís Vaz de Camões died #OTD in 1580. He wrote a considerable amount of lyrical poetry & drama but is best remembered for his epic work Os Lusíadas. His collection of poetry The Parnasum of Luís de Camões was lost during his life.
Books by Luís de Camões at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1183
#books #literature #poetry
Books by Camões, Luís 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 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