Knowing
that books
are cut up,
scanned,
and then
thrown away
or even burned
is a cruel realization for me

It is a deeply cruel act

It is evidence of a world that has lost its moral compass—
a world that no longer knows what is right or wrong

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#mastodon #fediverse #YouWinAgainSi #freedom #reading #writing #thoughts #books #education #AI

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Image is not mine; found online. Two open books, stacked on top of each other. The books are burning, and bright flames are shooting out from their pages.

Books are knowledge
Books are freedom
Books are expression
Books are opinions
Books are education
Books are circumnavigators
Books are bridge-builders

That is exactly why
there were times
when they were burned

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Clip art image of a book Image not mine; found online An open, yellowed book with a pen resting on it and an inkwell next to it

Thanks to @_elena mentioning SimpleUI recently, KOReader on my jailbroken old 2015 Kindle Paperwhite just got a lot prettier and easier to use. It was also easy to add to KOReader on Android. https://github.com/doctorhetfield-cmd/simpleui.koplugin
#reading #kindle #koreader

Happy Birthday to Herman Melville, August 1, 1819.

"He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he bust his hot heart's shell upon it".

A couple of months after having finished reading Moby-Dick I find myself weirdly obsessed by it, to the point I eager a re-read.

#reading #literature #books #bookstodon

Embarrassing to admit but I uhhh need help reading books??

I have the books. I want them to be read. I have a couple 'reading areas' defined around the house. I have the time. I have the linguistic capacity. I have spent a lot of money on books.

Yet most days...nope. Don't even pick one up.

#reading #books

(Delayed) July Reads

Books Read: 2

- This Inevitable Ruin; Matt Dinniman, fantasy/humor/SF
- Houses With a Story; Seiji Yoshida (Jan Mitsuko Cash, translator), fantasy/graphic novel/SF

Top Read: This Inevitable Ruin (4.5/5 stars)

Yep, only two books finished. The month slammed me on multiple fronts, and it's just harder and harder to find reasons to climb back on my feet.

https://brightdreamersbookreviews.blogspot.com/2026/07/

#books #bookstodon #Reading

My mother published her memoir recently. It was a project she started in her 50s, completed in her 80s. She was born on the farm in a small Mennonite settlement on Vancouver Island in the 1930s. She retired as an RN in Kamloops in the 2000s.
I’m proud of her, for lots of reasons. I think her book is fab. Check it out at https://bit.ly/cominghome_emeyer

ps. She’s included a number of recipes from her pioneer childhood

Pps. I’d love to hear from you when you read it!

#books #writing #reading #VancouverIsland #canada #memoir #womenshistory #recipes

About to read this highly touted book by @emilymbender and Alex Hanna: “The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want”

#AI #books #bookstodon
#reading

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“The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want” by Emily Bender and Alex Hanna

𝗪𝗮𝘆𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗱𝘀 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗟𝗲𝗱𝗴𝗲𝗿: "𝗟𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗙𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗧𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗺" 𝗯𝘆 𝗡𝗶𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗮 𝗘. 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗟𝗲𝗼𝗱 -

Three-Word Review:

- Pedestrian
- Utilitarian
- Circumscribed

Frictional Posture:

What human questions does such a study fail to ask?

#bookreview #bookrecommendations #readinglist #literature #books #book #reading #frictionalreading #3words #nicolaemacleod #literaryfictiontourism #nonfiction #academic #tourism #literature #pilgrimage #literarynomads

RE: https://mstdn.social/@kibcol1049/117020019716547349

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Valuable advice for readers of books on an iphone.

#Apple #IPhone #Cars #Travel #Reading #Books #Bookstodon #Booksky

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Col » 🌐 2026-08-01
@kibcol1049@mstdn.social

Reading in a moving car turns your stomach because your eyes see a still screen while your inner ear feels every curve. Apple built a fix nobody knows about. On iPhone, go to Settings > Accessibility > Motion > Vehicle Motion Cues and pick Automatic. Little dots appear at the screen edges and drift with the car’s movement, so your brain stops arguing with itself.

#Books #BookSky #Read #Reading 📚📖

Empire of Dragons books are in EVEN MORE bundles!

Tea with the Goodknight, a story about horny dragon elf twins and a knight, and The Painter and the Dragonboy, a spicy story about Rin, are included in the Sweet and Spicy bundle, which totally doesn’t end in one hour:

https://itch.io/b/3779/sweet-spicy-a-romance-and-erotica-book-bundle

I had a promo drafted sooner but, well, if you’ve been keeping up with what happened to me, you’ll know why it didn’t work.

Next is a neurodivergent bundle. This one sadly ended before I could promo it here, but I think I did one elsewhere via asking one of my author buddies to put it in his newsletter. I want to mention it here anyway:

https://itch.io/b/3781/figuring-it-out-queer-neurodivergent-disabled

Rin in Time Immemorial was part of the Figuring It Out bundle, which was about neurodivergent characters. Yes, Rin is not at all neurotypical. Very few Karrucci dragons are.

Next is a Furry bundle, which includes the short book Settlement of the First Dragons.

https://itch.io/b/3769/furry-book-summer-sampler

Learn about the early days of the dragon empire on earth, and also read some other awesome furry books!

We appreciate any and all sharing of these bundles and any sales. We want to reach as many people as possible! Thanks for looking! :3

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#AnimeBooks #AuthorPromo #BookPromo #books #Dragons #ebooks #Fiction #FurryBooks #IndieBooks #ItchIo #literature #reading #Writing

RE: https://mastodon.social/@kurtsh/117012201618353752

I don't tend to re-read much, but here are four I've read multiple times:
- Charlotte's Web, by E.B. White
- Sex Tips for Girls, by Cynthia Heimel (not quite what it sounds like)
- The Westing Game, by Ellen Raskin
- Some of the books in the Tales of the City series, by Armistead Maupin.

#books #reading

h/t @Ashedryden

kurtsh » 🌐 2026-07-31
@kurtsh@mastodon.social

What are four books you’ve read multiple times?

Mine are:
1️⃣ "Ready Player One" - Ernie Cline
2️⃣ "Liar's Poker" - Michael Lewis
3️⃣ "Fire and Fury" - Michael Wolff
4️⃣ "Unreasonable Hospitality" - Will Guidara
#books #reading
From: @mookie
https://weredreaming.com/mookie/p/1785463553.076799

@kurtsh @mookie
I reread many books multiple times. Here are four that I've read many times.
1. Hogfather Terry Pratchett
2. Catch-22 Joseph Heller
3. The Last Coin James P. Blaylock
4. The Doomsday Book Connie Wells

And one more
The 1956 Betty Crocker Cookbook
I've read it cover to cover at least twice, but have opened and referenced recipes from it regularly for 60 some odd years. Not a novel, but a well loved book nonetheless.
#books #reading

@mookie Like most people I've got a bunch, but here are some of the ones I most want to share:

1. Balanced on the Blade's Edge by Lindsay Buroker
2. The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
3. The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien
4. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

with some notes:
1. The whole Dragon Blood series that starts with Balanced on the Blade's Edge, and the followup series Heritage of Power, are my favorite books and I will reread them all the time
2. I've made multiple passes through the first half-ish of the Wheel of Time series, but it's a chonker and I only made it all the way to the end once
3. Of course LOTR as well, but everyone is naming that

#books #reading

What are #FourBooks you've read multiple times?

A Greater Infinity - Michael McCollum
Healer - F. Paul Wilson
Ringworld - Larry Niven
The Pelbar Cycle - Paul O. Williams

#reading #books

SumatraPDF works awkwardly on some EPUBs but not all and I wonder why.

A bit of a shame that calibre is so resource-intensive that I have to juggle between this, that, as well as Thorium.

#epub #sumatra #calibre #thorium #ebook #books #bookstodon #reading

Romance conference report, ‘Weird’ Southern Dishes, “Cats in lapse,” and more news from Kris Bock's Romance and Mystery.
Plus Christmas Cookies at the Cat Café is on sale for 99c, Find More New Books and Authors, and of course FERRETS!

https://krisbockmysteryromance.substack.com/p/romance-conference-report-weird-southern
#books #reading #mystery #romance

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Text says Romance conference report, ‘Weird’ Southern Dishes, “Cats in lapse,” and more news from Kris Bock's Romance and Mystery. The background shows a book cover with an attractive, smiling man and woman in their 50s. A grey cat plays with some presents in front of them. A Christmas tree is in the background. The title is Christmas Cookies at the Cat Café, by Kris Bock. The image background has a cookies, a mug of cocoa, some greenery, a cat, and a candle.

I've just finished reading my very first Dickens novel, "Great Expectations".

Wow, I enjoyed it very much. So many feelings, so many plot twists. I had no idea it would have been so entertaining. Didn't know it was also such a gothic novel!

I need a palate cleanser now, but at some point I'd like to read "Bleak House" as well.

#reading #books #bookstodon #literature

Illustration from 20000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne - Edouard Riou (1871). With colors.

https://imgur.com/gallery/illustration-from-20000-leagues-under-sea-by-jules-verne-edouard-riou-1871-with-colors-YfhVpvf

#illustration #illustrator #engraving #drawing #draw #pen #graphicart #book #ebook #scifi #sciencefiction #novel #readers #writers #reading #read #blog #blogging #press #article #author #vintage #retro #art #culture #history #mythology #fantasy #literature #julesverne #edouardriou #earth #sea

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Illustration from 20000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne - Edouard Riou (1871). With colors.

New #BookReview on my #blog: 'Pagan Curiouser.'
https://itinerantlibrarian.blogspot.com/2026/07/book-review-pagan-curiouser.html

#books #reading #review #ItinerantLibrarian #pagan #occult #writing #Bookstodon #heathen #witch #esoterica

New #BookReview on my #blog: 'Pagan Curiouser.'
https://itinerantlibrarian.blogspot.com/2026/07/book-review-pagan-curiouser.html

#books #reading #review #ItinerantLibrarian #pagan #occult #writing #Bookstodon #heathen #witch #esoterica

#ScribesAndMakers 31
did I accomplish the thing

Crooked Medium's Guide to Terror final text, I have printed and eBooks lined up (and available as ARCS), final last minute text problem patched.

signed contract for a small press novella based on my first SFF professional sale for publication in same timetable

Need more reviewers - ideally they have seen book one! Cover reveal coming...

#books #writing #reading #victorian #noToAI #womensleuths #sapphic #LGBT

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Teaser. In stark black and white, the cover of The Crooked Medium's Guide to Terror, half in a white wrapper with text Cover Reveal Soon. The Victorian lettering and style reflect the first book, the Crooked Medium's Guide to Murder, which had three 'roundels' showing icons from the book. We can just see two for this book, a piece of jewelry and a cuthroat razor.