Honestly, I think we are both emerging from our own personal Château d'Ifs.
#literature #reading #classiclit #countofmontecristo #bookish
#bookclub #ebook #publicdomain
The internet did not kill reading. It changed the way we read, rewarding fragments over depth, outrage over understanding and speed over thought. Meanwhile, misinformation is free and the truth increasingly sits behind a paywall.
What happens to a society that can no longer finish a long article or follow a complicated argument?
marginalspace.substack.com/p/t…
In an economy built on distraction, finishing a book has become an act of intellectual independence.This Old Trouble
Hello, it is me again (again (again)). I am just some British geek with a daft sense of humour. I'm here for news, memes, and cats. Mostly cats.
This is not my main account. I'm just a strange (not so) little explorer hanging out here from time to time.
I like #SciFi #Reading #Anime #code and a bunch of other stuff.
Show me your cutest pet pictures.
The Horned Helmet by Henry Treece
I loved it so much my grade 4 teacher let me keep one of the books from the class set (they were all falling apart anyway)
This is that same copy she gave me, i've had this book almost 50 years
theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/…
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Reading crisis...
#bookstodon #books #book #novel #fiction #writersofmastodon #writer #writers #writerscoffeeclub #scribesandmakers #wordweavers #author #authors #readers #reading #writing #writingcommunity
Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history.Rose Horowitch (The Atlantic)
Hello everyone!
I'm Hester and I have hobbies. Quite a lot of them. I'm into #writing, #reading, #crochet, #linocut printing, #zine making and at the moment I am mostly #CrossStitching
I'm fairly new to #crossstitch and to mastodom, so I'm trying to find my feet.
This is it for my #introduction so far. If you have questions or any tips about mastodon, I'd love to hear from you!
I hope you have a lovely day.
I'm thrilled to share that my new book #HYPERSCALE is hitting bookstores on October 20. You can preorder it now!
It's an account of how the data center boom is pushing our planet past its breaking point, and of the incredible efforts of people and movements pushing back against the profit-driven interests of Big Tech.
Get your copy and learn more: hyperscalebook.com/
#techindustry #techbook #newbook #reading #datacenter #datacenters #generativeai #politics #artificialintelligence
An eye-opening account of how the data-center boom is pushing our planet past its breaking point. A new book by Paris Marx.hyperscalebook.com
I guess the Map Men didn't do a good job of predicting where I'd be reading their book...
#pixelfed #photography #naturephotography #landscapephotography #mountains #mountainview #mountaintop #reading #amreading #books #booklover #mapmen #cartography #maps #outdoors #adventure #overlanding #vanlife #wilderness #bluesky #clouds #lake #lakeview #hiking #getoutside #naturelovers #summer #explore #scenicview #mountainlife #offgrid #alpine #panorama #readinglife #wanderlust #solitude
theguardian.com/books/2026/jun…
I wonder why 'boys’ and girls’ reading choices “pull apart” '.
Image: Joel Goodman
#Reading #Books #Teenagers #Adolescents #Education #Gender
Jeff Kinney’s Diary of a Wimpy Kid series accounts for eight of the 10 most read books by 11- to 14-year-old boys, while girls the same age enjoy a wider range of authors and genresEmma Loffhagen (the Guardian)
Emma sighed and looked at the sunbeds again. "Damn. I thought I had an appointment with one of them…"
"They won't run away," another guest said as he heard her fake complaint. "We'll make sure it doesn't."
"By lying on it, I bet," Emma said.
"It's the best way," the man said with a straight face.
(Snippet from the new "Emma Nelson Mystery".)
“That’s all anybody can do right now. Live. Hold out. Survive. I don’t know whether good times are coming back again. But I know that won’t matter if we don’t survive these times.” - Octavia Butler
Is obesity a disease, a social condition, or a failure of willpower?
And if drugs such as Ozempic genuinely work, what exactly are they curing? Bodies, appetites, metabolic disorders, or something much larger and more uncomfortable about the way modern societies live?
Is Ozempic a miracle or a Pandora’s box?
#Reading Off the Scales: The Inside Story of Ozempic and the Race to Cure Obesity by Aimee Donnellan
open.substack.com/pub/theclima…
Reading Off the Scales: The Inside Story of Ozempic and the Race to Cure Obesity by Aimee DonnellanThe Climate Historian
Bonjour everyone!
I'm Joël, a 27-year-old #historian (he/him) from the #Netherlands #Limburg Living in #Brussels and working in #Leuven for a #heritage #museum #glam I'm into #languages and will be posting in #Nederlands #Francais #English
My toots will probably be mostly about #writing #reading #digitalminimalism #identity #podcasts #simpleliving and #art as I paint with #watercolor #oil #acrylic and I am into #photography
In my spare time I play #jazz and #funk on the #trombone or listen to my #vinyl collection.
Ich fühl mit dir, kleiner Bücherdrache.. oft genug sitze ich im Büro und denke mir das Gleiche..
immer muss man das Buch weglegen, um zu arbeiten..
GAR. NICHT. COOL. Echt jetzt..
#dragons #books #bookdragon #kleinekunstklasse #reading #fantasy
Take a chance on Rough Passages, my mosaic novel about people who get superpowers when they hit their 40's and risk everything for the sake of friendship, trust, & love. Heaps of humor, a pinch of whimsy, & big "let's avoid dystopia, shall we?" energy.
Print & DRM-free ebooks for sale on my website:
kmherkes.com/the-bookshop1
kindle: (or download as epub) amazon.com/stores/K.M.-Herkes/…
Nook, Kobo etc: books2read.com/kmherkes
ABC, Let the Adventure Begin! Version 1 - Ages 1-3 years
Available now… smashwords.com/books/view/1929…
ABC, Let the Adventure Begin! is your baby's first guide to world travel. It lets you explore the exciting world of letters from A to Z and some fantastic cities all around the World with your ABCs!
#EduSky #writingcommunity #booksky #WriteSky #Books #travel #indieauthor #ebooks #read #reading #readers #Learning #Education #Imagination #Adventure #alphabet #travelbook #ABC #ESL #SelfPub #selfpublished
Behold my awesome fantasy short story collection.
Gandalf the Grey Cat is not for sale, but you can get Relics From a Traveling Show online.
buy direct DRM-free:
kmherkes.com/the-bookshop1/p/r…
kindle (also DRM free)
amazon.com/dp/B0DJWQRWGY
Kobo, Nook & more
books2read.com/relicsfromatrav…
*also on bookshop.org
(Look, when I have a cat being this cute & my books were shelved right there, how could I resist snapping a picture of them together?)
#cats #books #reading #fantasy #bookpromo
Relics From A Traveling Show by K. M. Herkesbooks2read.com
Just scheduled my newsletter. It will go out in two hours, so if you want to read about Ember and the lilies, you need to be subscribed by then.
hannah-steenbock.de/ember-aler…
It not a spammy newsletter, it only goes out once a month, but it does have some book promos that I hope will interest you (mostly Fantasy).
At any rate, enjoy!
Ember Alert! – Get my fun Newsletter every 13th of the MonthHannah Steenbock
Naked Crow 14 - Changes.
The e-book is going out to stores now.
question for book enjoyers out there:
if an artist were to produce some aesthetically very cool ex libris labels to stick inside your books and assert your ownership of them, would you want to buy just one, or maybe a sheet of several at once, for your lil library? asking for a me
(please consider boosting for sample size - i'm a small potato and i'd really like to not end up getting a bunch of things printed that aren't the things people would want)
This is pretty grim stuff.
“The generational collapse in literacy is measurable, persistent, and likely to get worse. Six weeks into the term, I assigned my rhetoric and writing students a 20-page article. It was the same length I had assigned for five years and the same length I had read without complaint as an undergraduate a decade ago. Not one student finished it. When I asked why, a student answered honestly: It was too long, and she kept losing track of what the paper was about. This was not a remedial class: These were students who had cleared the admissions process and written essays good enough to get them here. Yet a routine academic reading assignment had defeated them.”
“My Students Can’t Read”
chronicle.com/article/my-stude…
No paywall: removepaywalls.com/chronicle.c…
View article without paywallView article without paywall
A is for #ATHENS
ABC, Let the Adventure Begin! Version 1 - Ages 1-3 years
Available now… books2read.com/u/mqlMre
#EduSky #writingcommunity #booksky #WriteSky #Books #travel #indieauthor #ebooks #read #reading #readers #Learning #Education #Imagination #Adventure #alphabet #travelbook #ABC
ABC, Let the Adventure Begin! Version 1 - Ages 1-3 years by Leonidas Bratinibooks2read.com
**Werbung**
Final day for the Book of the Month Deal - A Wolf's Hacker - in my store!
It's not one of the usual suspects but one of my favorite books instead. (Yes, I have favorite books. Does that make me a bad author?)
Anyway, you can get A Wolf's Hacker for just €2.99 in my PayHip store (and only there!) by using the coupon code
Lucky
on checkout. Delivery will be by BookFunnel, via email.
shop.hannah-steenbock.de/blog/…
Go grab it!
#Reading
#WolfShifter
#WritingCommunity
This month, I'm going to do something different and pick a book that I truly love. (I know, I shouldn't have favorite books, they are all my children, and yet... I do.) You see, A Wolf's Hacker has such a juicy redemption arc. Shane (who was a minor.Hannah Steenbock
I’ve just learned that The Guardian has assembled a list of the 100 “best” English novels, as chosen by experts, that is authors, critics and academics.
It was fun going through it, though a more accurate title could be:
“The 100 English novels most likely to send readers fleeing to Netflix.”
theguardian.com/books/ng-inter…
The top 100 novels of all time published in English, as voted for by authors, critics and academics worldwide. How many have you read?Frederick O'Brien (the Guardian)
Over half of Australia’s bookshops closed within a decade. Should the government help?
“Objects of culture” under “financial pressures”
“Bookshops are the safety vaults for the seeds of our country’s cultural and intellectual life.” Charlotte Wood
"In the past year alone, at least 13 independent bookshops have closed in Australia. Some have operated for decades."
"Fixed book pricing is common in Europe, where books are formally exempted from European Union competition rules, as “objects of culture”. This allows publishers and their distributors to determine the retail price of books."
>>
theconversation.com/over-half-…
#books #BookShops #culture #reading #writers #regulation #megastores
Go and support your local independent bookshop/s!
Image: Seen on Bellingen's main drag at the #bellingenwritersfestival
Australia’s bookshops are in trouble, and that’s bad news for readers. But there are ideas we could borrow from Europe to help make our bookshops healthy again.The Conversation
Book of the Week. 'Depraved: The Story of Dangerous Art' by Daisy Dixon.
A powerful case for meeting the monster’s gaze head‑on. Confront it, cut it open, expose its toxins to daylight.
By exposing the assumptions hidden within a painting, a novel, or a song, we weaken their power far more effectively than censorship ever could. You do not defeat the monster by refusing to look at it, but by facing it, understanding it, and then answering back.
open.substack.com/pub/marginal…
Why the greatest danger posed by offensive art is not that it exists, but that we fail to recognise what it is teaching us.Athena (Chronicles of a Liquid Society)
Having trouble focusing on your book? Try immersive reading
I can’t recommend this book highly enough. 👇
I’m only halfway through and I’ve already covered the margins with notes.
It focuses mainly on the US and the Netherlands as the author is Dutch, but one or two European and British politicians could have been lifted straight from its pages, in the way they exploit grief and fear to fan rage and violence.
Hive Mind: Looking for a sci-fi book read in the mid-'60s. Takes place in a moon colony run by a large corporation. Murders are happening & no one can find the murderer. A detective is brought up from Earth to assist. He is blind & has a "birth defect" that allows him to see people as strange, colorful geometric objects, which leads to the answer. Need author & title.
#SciFi
#Books
#Reading
#FindABook
#ScienceFiction
*Please Boost*
Folklore read live!
What would you do if a fire spirit ran towards you?
Find out your options in tonight's tales LIVE right NOW: youtube.com/live/sOwAQbJzo3s
#FairyTaleTuesday #WritingCommunity #storyteller #FairyTale #AmReading #reading #indieWriter #fairy #folklore #folk #tales #stories #GrimmBrothers #dnd #dnd5e #pathfinder #pf2e #ttrpg #fantasy #lotr #german #folklore #legend #fire #ghosts #kobold
Folklore read live! What would you do if a fire spirit ran towards you?Find out your options in tonight's tales @ 6:30 pm PST/9:30 pm ESTStream Starts: 1:36T...Varietal (YouTube)
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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
💁🏻♀️ ICYMI: 🤝📚 Aaron visits his family's local #library and finds James and the Giant Peach missing, along with dozens of others.
He learns about book banning and the principle that people have the right to read widely and form their own opinions. The #FirstAmendment protects authors' rights to write what they want and readers' rights to read those #stories.
👉 Learn more seethis.tv/post/book-bans-cens…
#animation #books #civics #communication #community #culture #literacy #ethics #government #humanrights #ideas #journalism #literature #kids #reading #religion #school #stopmotion #teaching #writing #constitution #USA #tksst #video
🧠🔢 Psychologists from #Bucknell and #Drake Universities discovered that while #reading habits influence how we map numbers, our mental number lines are highly individual.
By studying #primates and #birds, researchers found that #animals also organize quantities spatially, suggesting this mental mapping is biological.
👉 theconversation.com/how-you-ma…
#psychology #neuroscience #math #biology #primatology #ornithology #pennsylvania #iowa #education #learning #literacy #brain #science
On your mental number line, are the numbers smaller on the left or on the right? Two comparative cognition researchers explain how culture may influence the orientation – but also may not.The Conversation
🤝📚 Aaron visits his family's local #library and finds James and the Giant Peach missing, along with dozens of others.
He learns about book banning and the principle that people have the right to read widely and form their own opinions. The #FirstAmendment protects authors' rights to write what they want and readers' rights to read those #stories.
👉 Learn more seethis.tv/post/book-bans-cens…
#animation #books #civics #communication #community #culture #literacy #ethics #government #humanrights #ideas #journalism #literature #kids #reading #religion #school #stopmotion #teaching #writing #constitution #USA #tksst #video
Since I read it (in Jabr, Ferris's book Becoming Earth), I can’t stop thinking about it.
"a single gallon of gasoline represents 100 tonnes of ancient life, roughly equivalent to 20 adult elephants".
I knew it was a lot, but not that much. A full tank is basically a small fossilised world.
In light of the continued enshittification of Youtube, I've finally scrounged together the energy to get files shrunk down and uploaded to a peertube account 
@octaviaconamore@vid.northbound.online
It won't include any full streams since there's a 20GB total data limit, but I've uploaded every stand-alone book reading I've recorded 
Most of them are still waiting to be transcoded server-side, but the whole YT library will be up in a few hours~ 
oh, and despite the potato video quality (only 1500 kb/s), the audio quality is a full 320 kb/s 
add. if you follow the peertube account from your Fedi account and turn on notifications, you can get a notification every time a new video is uploaded~ 
Buddhist rebus-style text from Japan (Early 20th century), from Hymn of Praise to Kannon for the Illiterate (Kannon mekura wasan).
Source: British Library
pdimagearchive.org/images/9593…
#reading #pictograms #manuscripts #religion #illiteracy #buddhism #rebus #art #publicdomain
Ich glaube, ich habe die Formel für ein perfektes Wochenende gefunden 🐈📚
Do you like Urban Fantasy? Paranormal Romance?
Here's a collection of shifters, vampires, demons and much more, with several boxed sets on offer.
Take a look here - it's the last day today!
books.bookfunnel.com/ufromance…
(This is one big way we indie authors promote, and I hope you can find a new favorite among the offers.)
#Reading
#UrbanFantasy
#Romantasy
Searching for an action-packed urban fantasy with a touch of romance? Look no further! These awesome fantasy authors bring youthe very best in urban fantasy romance storytelling! Add them to your TBR pile today! *** Eyeballing a Kindle Unlimited…books.bookfunnel.com
