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Announcing The Linux Command Line Seventh Internet Edition and Third Print Edition
Good News Everyone!
I have just released the Seventh Internet Edition of my book. Along with the Internet Edition release we're just a few days from the general availability of the new print edition which is based on the aforementioned Internet Edition.
See all the details here: linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php
I will ask here because I feel like there might be enough literary nerds around. I need to read a good amount for an exam I need to do to get into university for the English subject.
I am looking for 1 book from before 1900 and one after (fiction, non fantasy) that will pass their "literary enough" sniff test, that preferably isn't written by a cishet white man. I was thinking Frankenstein at first—but I am guessing they categorize it as "fantasy" or a book with a movie—since she isn't on the definitely pre-approved list and I can't imagine missing her (which is strange because Douglas Adams, George Orwell, J.R.R Tolkien are, but I digress).
Virginia Woolf is so I think I'll read one of her books for post 1900, give me a suggestion for one to read (haven't read her at all).
But that leaves one pre-1900 novel, so feel free to suggest one for either.
Names for avid readers 📚 by language -
English: Bookworm
Danish: Reading horse (Lesehest)
French: Ink drinker (Buveur d'encre)
German: Read-rat (Leseratte)
Indonesian: Book flea (Kutu buku)
Romanian: Library mouse (Șoarece de bibliotecă)
Norwegian: Reading horse (Lesehest)
Serbian/Polish: Book moth (Knjiški moljac / Mól książkowy)
Finnish: Reading maggot (Lukutoukka)
Swedish: Read-louse (Läslus)
Vietnamese: Bookwormweevil (Mọt sách)
“Open Me Carefully.” Emily Dickinson’s Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson
"A Look Inside the Poet’s Personal Life and the Making of Her Mythical Reclusiveness"
lithub.com/open-me-carefully-e…
Books by Dickinson at PG:
gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/99…
“Open Me Carefully.” Emily Dickinson’s Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson
Emily Dickinson died in 1886, and her poems were not introduced to the reading public until 1890, when editors Thomas Higginson and Mabel Loomis Todd released the first edition of Poems by Emily Di…Literary Hub
Sometime around the 2020 era, we lost the right to be mediocre at things we love.
No longer can you just bake bread...you must start a sourdough side hustle lol. Wanna stay fit and go jogging or running? Nah, you gotta optimize your biometrics for a marathon. What my point is that every hobby has been enshittified and gentrified into a brand opportunity.
This strange infatuation with optimization culture is killing the human spirit.
So this new year, starting tomorrow, one of my resolutions is to do something bad but fun. Maybe I write a terrible poem. I like to draw and paint, so perhaps I will draw a horse that looks like a table or sing off-key in the showers or in front of my loved ones. The algorithm driving the mainstream social media wants me to be a polished product, but my humanity lives in these messy, unoptimized, cringe-inducing joyful failures.
I will try to reclaim the right to be an amateur. Will you join me?
#creativity #hobbies #art #depression #socialmedia #newyear #resolution #happynewyear #MentalHealth #Culture #enshittification #creative #design #writing #reading #books #drawing #music #gardening #nature #running #fitness
So I am on self promotion now - anyone here who wants his English book translated into German? No option for you? Talk to me. Most of my authors are glad for the additional income.
References on my blog - see profile.
#translations #books #writing #author
© William Burroughs, Naked Lunch.
#Quote #Books #Bookstodon
The Peter Cushing TARDIS is complete!
#LEGO #TARDIS #TARDISConsole #DoctorWho #LEGODoctorWho #LEGOTARDIS #PeterCushing #PeterCushingDoctorWho #AFOL #MOC #Minifig #Minifigs #Minifigure #Minifigures #Books #BookCases #Victorian #ToyPhotography
From January 20th, 2026, #books released through #Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) without #DRM will be downloadable as #EPUB or #PDF for users who have purchased them. It will also be possible for no-DRM status to be toggled for existing #ebooks.
It remains to be seen how many #authors and publishers will take advantage of this, whether the files will be watermarked, and if the feature will be available for non-KDP titles.
I recently started using Book Notification (booknotification.com).
For me, the use case is simple: add a list of #authors I like, and they send me a weekly email with upcoming releases by those authors and a link to a personalised #book release calendar page.
I read a lot of #books, so I like what they're doing. Unfortunately there is a catch. Two, actually.
Firstly, they use an #accessibility overlay (Ally by Elementor). While it isn't personally bothersome for me (particularly given the fact that my primary interest is in the content they email out), I do fundamentally object to using a service that perpetuates the use of these tools however unmaliciously.
Secondly, the first time I visited the site after signing up, I'd been signed out and the backend had apparently forgotten my password. Services not handling authentication data and user sessions well is a development pet peeve of mine.
All of this to say: if this sounds appealing to you and you're not put off by the highlighted caveat and hiccup, it does seem to work well. But I'm also interested in recommendations of other services like this that will let me keep track of new book releases by authors I enjoy. Do you know of any?
(Please no Goodreads, Amazon, Audible, or the like.)
Distributed Proofreaders has posted its 50,000th unique title! It is "A Dictionary of the Art of Printing."
Read about it here:
blog.pgdp.net/2025/12/07/celeb…
Book at PG:
Congratulations to all who worked on it.
Celebrating 50,000 Titles
This post celebrates the 50,000th unique title Distributed Proofreaders has posted to Project Gutenberg: A Dictionary of the Art of Printing, by William Savage. Congratulations and thanks to all th…Hot off the Press
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury
Rethinking where language comes from: Framework reveals complex interplay of biology and culture
by Max Planck Society
phys.org/news/2025-11-rethinki…
#books #culture #biology #language
Rethinking where language comes from: Framework reveals complex interplay of biology and culture
A new study challenges the idea that language stems from a single evolutionary root. Instead, it proposes that our ability to communicate evolved through the interaction of biology and culture, and involves multiple capacities, each with different ev…Max Planck Society (Phys.org)
The Wonderful Public Domain of Oz
blog.archive.org/2025/11/17/th…
Baum's books at PG:
gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/42
Ruth Plumly Thompson's books at PG:
gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/34…
Book Talk: The Public Domain with James Boyle
Join James Boyle with Molly Shaffer Van Houweling on why protecting our cultural commons is essential for creativity and innovation. REGISTER NOW!\nblog.archive.org
That small joy when you unexpectedly come across a public bookcase that isn’t yet mapped in #OpenStreetMap .It's like a tiny treasure hunt for mappers 📚🗺️
With a few taps in an app, it’s now part of the OpenStreetMap database. The free global map of public bookcases just got a little bit better.
#OSM #PublicBookcase #Mapping #OpenData #Books
So if anyone is interested, I just announced the categories for the 2026 Polymath Training Challenge :)
It's a nonfiction reading challenge that has been running for 11 years. This year, long-time participants have submitted topics, and the final list was decided by random draw.
And for the first time, in 2026 you can find and join the challenge on StoryGraph too:
app.thestorygraph.com/reading_…
I'm looking for a non-amazon reader for e-books. Does anyone have any recommendations?
Open to all suggestions but ideally something that doesn't tie me into a particular platform and lets me read indie-published as well as mainstream published books.
I'm an author so have no issue paying for ebooks through online bookshops. While I am trying to avoid giving money to amazon, I am very happy to keep paying authors and publishers!
What's up with my #reading habits lately?
Me: "I'd really like some #fantasy or #scifi comfort food. Nothing complex; maybe something cozy or slice of life, or a power fantasy where the good guys always win. I'd love that."
Me, a few hours later: "Hey! This #book was just a predictable power fantasy where the good guys always win! It was overly simple slice of life, and the conflict was low stakes. I hated that!"
It's gotten to the point where I haven't rated the last few #books I've read, because "2 stars: was exactly what I asked for!" just seems like an unfair review.
Anyway, authors: please figure out what I actually want to read and write that, then advertise it to me as what I think I want to read. Because book marketing isn't hard enough for you, right? Thanks! #bookstodon
There are few greater recommendations of a piece of literature than its banning by fascists.
I've been waiting for the new #Witcher book for many years. And today it's finally in my ebook reader. 😍
(I know it was released already last year, but the Czech translation was published just a few days ago.)
app.thestorygraph.com/books/dd…
#TheWitcher #books #Booktodon #book #kniha
Lately, I've been encountering unavailability of image descriptions of book covers. Today, when I encountered this, here is the response I received from Be My Eyes when I enquired further.
Images of book covers on certain platforms, like Goodreads and some other major online bookstores, are sometimes no longer described in detail due to copyright concerns and changes in policy. Book cover images are typically protected by copyright, and detailed descriptions or reproductions might violate the copyright owner's rights.
Additionally, some platforms may have automated systems that restrict or block descriptions of copyrighted images to ensure they are complying with legal requirements. This is especially common for large platforms that handle many copyrighted materials and want to avoid legal complications.
If you need a description of a specific book cover for accessibility reasons, you may sometimes find official descriptions directly from the publisher or author, or you can request a description from a service that specializes in accessible content.
This makes me very sad, as I feel I am missing out on the beauty of book covers. 😔
A Lost Chapter Of The World’s First Novel Discovered In A Japanese Home
It's one of 54 chapters from a transcription of The Tale of Genji, written in the 11th century.
By Natasha Ishak
allthatsinteresting.com/tale-o…
The Tale Of Genji at PG:
gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?q…
Lost Chapter Of 'The Tale Of Genji,' The World's First Novel, Discovered
Written in 1010 by a medieval Japanese woman, a poet transcribed the novel 200 years later — and now, we have one of those long-lost chapters.Natasha Ishak (All That's Interesting)
"AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry."
Win win.
I just registered my name & book details with the appropriate law firm.
Check if your book/article/paper is on the list here:
theatlantic.com/technology/arc…
If it is, go here:
lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au…
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.Alex Reisner (The Atlantic)
Reading For Fun Is Plummeting In the US, and Experts Are Concerned - Slashdot
alternative_right shares a report from ScienceAlert: When's the last time you settled down with a good book, just because you enjoyed it? A new survey shows reading as a pastime is becoming dramatically less popular in the U.S.news.slashdot.org
i wrote a 120,000 word book on my experience growing up in the BBS and dial-up internet era, from ~1985-1997
it's chock full of stories about ibm pc and macintosh hardware and gaming
it's going to be published this autumn as an ebook and might get a print edition
but i have a far more stupid idea for it: how about a floppy disk edition with a custom dos/windows 3.1 & macintosh system 6 ebook version
has anyone written a Voyager Expanded Book using the VEB Toolkit in 30 years?
(if you haven't heard of Expanded Books, michael crichton and voyager's team wrote an *excellent* version of Jurassic Park)
is there an ms-dos or windows 3.1 equivalent to VEBs? I swear that back in the 90s someone made ebooks using "Asymetrix Multimedia Toolbook", but i can't seem to find any examples of it
#macintosh #dosgaming #books #retroComputing #vintageApple
🆕 blog! “How long does it take to upgrade an eBook?”
The older I get, the more comfortable I become with complaining. Not merely moaning on social media, but writing a direct email to the perpetrator of some annoyance.
I'd purchased an eBook and was appalled by how crappy the accessibility was. If you don't know, modern ePub books are just HTML…
👀 Read more: shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/08/how-l…
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#a11y #accessibility #books #ebook #ebooks
When I was ten, my brother-in-law's dad gave me a set of #books. He wrote this inscription in the first one.
My book Drystone – A Life Rebuilt is out in just three weeks.
I really believe in this book. It’s honest about important things, quietly subversive, funny, easy to read, and I’ve poured everything into writing it and getting it into the world as far as I can.
If you can, I’d love your help. A share, a preorder, a message to someone who might love it, it all makes a difference.
Info and links below.
#Books #Bookstodon #Scotland #Writing #Reading #Women
I'm dying over this reddit comment. Not saying that it is wrong but the framing of books as "old timey entertainment" is funny to me. Like my grandpa talking about farming using mules.
Hurray! Another San Francisco bookstore is following Booksmith's example and pulling Harry Potter books.
From the SF Chronicle:
Fabulosa Books followed suit on Wednesday, June 25.
The queer Castro bookstore shared a picture of a whiteboard to its Instagram account with the message, “We are no longer buying + selling books by J.K. Rowling as she is devoting her life to nastiness.”
The caption thanks Booksmith for “setting a good example.”
sfchronicle.com/entertainment/… or archive.vn/Udyth
#LGBTQ #trans #books #SanFrancisco #JKRowling #HarryPotter
S.F. bookstores remove ‘Harry Potter’ over Rowling’s anti-trans fund
Two popular independent bookstores in San Francisco have stopped selling the “Harry Potter” series after J.K. Rowling’s fund opposing transgender rights.Aidin Vaziri (San Francisco Chronicle)