This is a preview of the digital audiobook of Artificial Divide, edited by Robert Kingett and Randy Lacey, available on Libro.fm at libro.fm/audiobooks/9781990086…

Artificial Divide
By: Robert Kingett, Randy Lacey, Alice Eakes, Anita Haas, Ann Chiappetta, Ben Fulton, Eunice Cooper-Matchett, Felix Imonti, Heather Meares, Jameyanne Fuller, Jamieson Wolf, Lawrence Gunther, M. Leona Godin, Melissa Yuan-Innes, Niki White, Rebecca Blaevoet & Tessa Soderberg
Narrated by: Nathan Frechette, Jameyanne Fuller, Alice Eakes, Anita Haas, M. Leona Godin & Niki White
Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Description:
Step into a world of rogue screen readers, Braille in fantasy worlds, a friend meeting an acquaintance after several years, and more.

This #OwnVoices anthology features fiction by Blind and visually impaired authors showing readers how they thrive, hurt, get revenge, outsmart bullies, or go on epic adventures. Artificial Divide is an own-voices story collection that captures the many layers of Blindness and, for once, puts visually impaired protagonists in the driver's seat, letting us glimpse their lives.

When we think about it, we're not really divided.

Hey there!

I'm CKMo, and I'm a taiwanese high fantasy indie author. I'm trying to bring more works with #eastasian influences into western culture via my novels.

You can find all my publishing sites, social media, and discord server in my bio!

#indieauthor #indiebooks #indiefantasy #fantasy #selfpublished #webnovelist #writing #novel #fantasyauthor #taiwanese #asian #asiancreator #writers #book #books #fantasybook #bookstodon #webnovel #highfantasy @bookstodon

"No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be."
Dracula

Irish novelist and critic, who created Count Dracula, Bram Stoker was born #OTD in 1847. Dracula is an epistolary novel, written as a collection of realistic but completely fictional diary entries, telegrams, letters, ship's logs, and newspaper clippings, all of which added a level of detailed realism to the story.

Bram Stoker at PG:
gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/19…

#books #literature

Project Gutenberg partnered with Microsoft to make over 5000 new audiobooks.

They are freely available at
marhamilresearch4.blob.core.wi…

as well as popular podcast download sites. Read more about this effort, and see a video of Project Gutenberg CEO Greg Newby talking about it:
customers.microsoft.com/en-us/…

#books #literature

Project Gutenberg brings free audiobooks to the global community with AI-generated book narration

The oldest digital library and a leading distributor of free eBooks, Project Gutenberg wanted to make its collection more accessible to a broader community of members, including people who have visual impairments and those around the world who might …

^{Microsoft Customers Stories}

The Sakya Monastery in tibet has a library comprising some 84,000 books. Most are Buddhist scriptures, but there are works of literature, history, philosophy, astronomy, mathematics, agriculture, and art. They date back centuries.

In 2011 they began to digitize the library. All books are indexed and about 20% have been fully digitized.

More:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakya_Mo…

#Books #Library #Monastery #Tibet #History #Knowledge #Monks #Buddhism #Sakya

Mastodon has been an amazing source for #book recommendations. A few #books I've read since joining Mastodon that were excellent:

The High House by Jessie Greengrass simonandschuster.com/books/The…

The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber, David Wengrow us.macmillan.com/books/9780374…

Survival of the Richest by Douglas Rushkoff wwnorton.com/books/survival-of…

Factory Girls by Michelle Gallen barnesandnoble.com/w/factory-g…

#bookstodon

Book details - Macmillan

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution—fr...

^Macmillan

Antiguos Retratos - Almudena Grandes

Uno de los recuerdos que tengo de su casa es la cantidad de libros que había por todos lados: en las paredes, en las mesas, apilados en el suelo...

#fotografia #photography #retrato #portrait #libros #books #AlmudenaGrandes

"The face, which, duly as the sun,
Rose up for me with life begun,
To mark all bright hours of the day
With hourly love, is dimmed away —
And yet my days go on, go on."
De Profundis (1862)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning died #OTD in 1861. Her work had a major influence on prominent writers of the day, including Edgar Allan Poe and Emily Dickinson. via @Wikipedia

Books by Elizabeth Barrett Browning at PG:
gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/78…

#books #literature #poetry

The fine folks at Electric Lit have an interesting list of novels by Arab and Arab Diaspora writers focused on the concept of the storyteller. Includes the exceptional Naguib Mahfouz and a whole lot of folks new to us.

Let the reading commence. #books

electricliterature.com/7-arab-…

7 Arab and Arab Diasporic Novels about Storytellers - Electric Literature

Stories that counter-colonize the Western narrative and reclaim cultural agency

^{Intern Electric Lit (Electric Literature)}

🌈✨ Na na na na na na na…! ✨🌈 Are you playing We Love Katamari REROLL + Royal Reverie? Get a copy of my book on the making of the original Katamari Damacy featuring interviews with Keita Takahashi and learn all about how this magical game came to be!

📗KATAMARI DAMACY by L.E. Hall (Boss Fight Books), available at a bookseller near you

lauraehall.com/books

#Books #BossFightBooks #Katamari #KatamariDamacy #WeLoveKatamari #WeLoveKatamariRerollRoyalReverie #Games #VideoGames #RetroGames

This is the best advice ever. #florida #books #life

description: black text on orange background: "Live so that if your life were turned into a book, Florida would ban it."

Little black cat in a big forest. An altered book by Isobelle Ouzman.

isobelleouzman.com/

#art #books #BookCarving

Happy day! Got my copy of Mastodon for Dummies by
@workingwriter @chrisminnick huge thanks to them for sending it to me😊

Will be reviewing the book and testing out the explanations on my favorite dummy, since my husband has finally decided to make a Mastodon account 👀

#Mastodon #Fediverse #books

Purism President @kyle caught up with Matthias Kirschner, President of @fsfe to talk about the inspiration behind the children's book "Ada & Zangemann: A Tale of Software, Skateboards, and Raspberry Ice Cream", and the need to raise awareness about free software

puri.sm/posts/kyle-and-matthia…

#freesoftware #software #books

A man named Bruno Schröder was a mining engineer for most of his life. When passed away in his 80s in June 2022, he had around 60,000 or so books spread out on the 4 floors of his house in Mettingen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The books likely weigh about the same as 15 modern cars. 📚
#books #library #BookCollection #collection #Germany

h/t @BrianJopek

Boosting this with alt-text because #librarians rule! 💪

I love the last panel. 😊

#Libraries #NoLimits #Books #Reading

It's baaaaack - Flirtatious Fiction Friday. Writers, tell us about your latest. Readers, see what's new.

Use the tag:

#flirtatiousfictionfriday

#books #queeromance #mmromance #ffromance #romance #gay #lesbian #transgender #bisexual #lgbtiqa #bookstodon #MMBookstodon #LGBTQBookstodon @LGBTQbookstodon @MMbookstodon @bookstodon

Over on #booktube I posted a quick update sharing a bit about the new weekly series I’ll be doing: youtube.com/shorts/QcE07C9xTZk…

SO excited to be creating content again after my long hiatus!! Just *one more place* for me to blather on and on about my favorite hobbies! 😂

Thanks, @AeroEagle!!

#bookstodon #books #friday

I have mixed feelings about this.

Apple quietly launches a catalog of #books narrated by #AI on its Books app, in a move that publishers, authors, and agents warn may upend the #audiobook market.

theguardian.com/technology/202…

#Bookstodon

Death of the narrator? Apple unveils suite of AI-voiced audiobooks

Exclusive: tech firm quietly launches new audiobook catalogue narrated by AI – but move expected to spark backlash

^{Leyland Cecco (The Guardian)}

Here's a good piece that lays out some advantages to #AI narrated #audiobooks. The trouble is that there is no analysis of what happens when an author or publisher decides to forego hiring a human and go directly to this method.

Why AI audiobook narrators could win over some authors and readers, despite the vocal bumps

theguardian.com/technology/202…

#books #bookstodon

Why AI audiobook narrators could win over some authors and readers, despite the vocal bumps

Apple and Google’s AI turn in a booming market may sound less than human and raise the ire of voiceover actors, but it has cost benefits

^{Lois Beckett (The Guardian)}

I'm still being haunted by this Barnes & Noble article and everyone praising the new policy changes so I just wanted to share another piece about it

This one is about the authors. because no one loves books and readers more than authors. especially not the CEO of Barnes & Noble.

medium.com/turning-pages/barne…

#bookstodon #books #reading

Barnes & Noble’s New Policy Harms Authors | Turning Pages

Following a Twitter controversy, readers and authors were shocked to discover that Barnes and Noble has a new nationwide policy. Only the top 1-2 children's books per publisher per season will be sold in stores.

^{Marie Kester (Turning Pages)}

Welcoming the #WritingCommunity to Mastodon!

Perhaps, I should do the second #writerslift here.

So you know how it goes, like, follow for follow, and post your #links to your #books #wip #blogs etc. on this post below

#amreading #amwriting #writers #writersblog #writerchat #writerdons #writerlife #writingtips

I'll go first, I'm working on my first #novel The Ravenport Club, you can follow for updates on its Facebook page www.facebook.com/TheRavenportClub and very near to publishing it.

Me and My Dysphoria Monster is a children's book, illustrated by Ang Hui Qing, which aims to discuss gender dysphoria in child approachable language.

The book focuses on a hopeful and optimistic future, and contains an adults reference guide at the back.

#Books #trans #lgbtq

So, from there, let's move onto my published books, in chronological order.

Uncomfortable Labels is a memoir about living at the intersection of being both trans and autistic, an overlap that is fairly common, but under discussed.

#author #trans #lgbt #books