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75 % aller Bewerbungen werden von KI aussortiert
KI-Einstellungssysteme lehnen qualifizierte Bewerber aufgrund kleiner technischer Details ab.Torben Kopp
Independent bookstores make quiet comeback as big chains dominate retail
About 422 indie bookshops opened in 2025, up 31%, defying predictions of retail consolidationGene Marks (The Guardian)
Finished reading: Little Brother by Cory Doctorow 📚
Although I first discovered @pluralistic through his more recent novels (and the Fediverse), I can understand why so many people consider this book, one of his best. I absolutely loved it —truly great storytelling.
Dear #fediverse, please send more readers my way.
I’d love to connect with more people who read books, post about #books, write #reviews, share #recommendations, and enjoy thoughtful conversations about #literature.
#bookstodon #reading #booksky #bookreview #booklovers #readingcommunity #bookclub
@bookstodon
For fans of #ThePitt, you might enjoy my second novel about an intern and his peers in 1992 Seattle as they grapple with secrets, burnout, and medicine’s hidden curriculum; a compelling medical suspense with true-life historical elements
2025 Indie Readers Discovery Award Winner (socially conscious fiction category)
“A gripping read that will stay with you long after you close the book” - The Big Thrill
#bookstodon #books #medmastodon
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Also free on #kindleunlimited
Do you enjoy reading books? There's a social reading platform on the Fediverse called BookWyrm, which is a free open alternative to Amazon Goodreads. Lots more info at:
➡️ fedi.tips/bookwyrm-a-social-ne…
BookWyrm lets you import your existing account data from other platforms including Goodreads, LibraryThing, StoryGraph, OpenLibrary and Calibre.
If you want to use BookWyrm's features you should join a BookWyrm server:
#FediTips #Books #Reading #BookWyrm #GoodReads
BookWyrm: A social network for people who enjoy reading | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediversefedi.tips
Yay! So the news is finally out, and my first novel will be published in 2028. I started writing this book in 2017, before I fully understood the #solarpunk genre, but I poured my dreams and fears into this work and it has many elements of the egalitarian world I dream about, without capitalism. I think you will love it too.
"Dilman Dila Signs With Luna For His New Solarpunk Novel, Dreams of a Yellow Balloon"
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OH MY GOD 🤣
A novel just came out in which a tradwife influencer wakes up in 1805 and suddenly has to live the real life she's been selling online, raw milk and all!
All hail YESTERYEAR by Caro Claire Burke.
zdnet.com/article/your-kindles… 📚 #Amazon #Kindle #eBooks #eReader #Books #Reading #Tech #Jailbreak
Your Kindle's not obsolete, it just needs a jailbreak - and I'll show you how it's done
You can transform your old Kindle - even a bricked device - into the ultimate open-source reader. Here's how.David Gewirtz (ZDNET)
just finished reading STRONGMEN by RUTH BEN-GHIAT, published by Profile Books. deeply researched, well-written, more terrifying than a stephen king novel. gripping analysis of the last 100 years of #authoritarian rulers
#books #amreading #NonFiction #politics
profilebooks.com/work/strongme
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GrrlScientist ⧖ Ⓥ 🇺🇦 (@grrlscientist@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image just finished reading STRONGMEN by RUTH BEN-GHIAT, published by Profile Books. deeply researched, well-written, more terrifying than a stephen king novel.GrrlScientist ⧖ Ⓥ 🇺🇦 (Mastodon)
Today is (the very first) National Black Bookstore day!
Celebrate with a treat from a Black-owned indie bookstore.
Brittany Allen
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#books #literature #blacklivesmatter #NationalBlackBookstoreDay
Today is (the very first) National Black Bookstore day!
The National Association of Black Bookstores (NAB2), a group launched last Juneteenth by Kevin Johnson of Sacramento’s Underground Books, has announced a new holiday: National Black Bookstore…Literary Hub
The ancient reason there are 60 minutes in an hour
A mysterious 5,000-year-old decision led directly to how we still count time today.
By Jocelyn Timperley
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Books about Time at PG:
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Who Were the Black Women of the Harlem Renaissance?
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At PG:
Gwendolyn Bennett
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Alice Dunbar Nelson
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Anne Spencer
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Zora Neale Hurston
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Anne Spencer
Books: Alice Dunbar Nelson
Project Gutenberg offers 78,177 free eBooks for iPhone, iPad, Kobo, Android and Kindle.Project Gutenberg
History of dust jackets on books
Some of the earliest book jackets wrapped around the entire book and were sealed with wax. Thus they were more like wrapping paper than a modern, loose wrap-around dust jacket. They were typically plain and typographic, and their main purpose was to protect the book during transit. They were also ideal to protect silk cloth bindings and, gold embossed details and type when mechanized cloth binding took off. But the book jacket’s function quickly evolved from protection to publicity as publishers began to see the dust jacket’s potential for marketing. Examples of illustrated or pictorial book jackets appeared early on but really took off in the 1920s, boosted by recent advances in color printing that drove down the costs of printing in color.
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A Brief History of the Dust Jacket — I Love Typography Ltd
Slip cover, dust cover, or dust jacket — whatever you call it, and whether you’re the type to trash or treasure them — have you ever wondered what purpose they serve and when they were invented? In Europe, the first printed books were typically sold …John Boardley (I Love Typography)
" #Tennessee #library director ousted after refusing to remove #LGBTQ #books"
There are 2 types of people
1. People who get sad at this story, do nothing, and then speak about how worse is sure to happen while offering no #resistance
2. People who get mad at this story, show up, agitate, make their voices heard. And punish those responsible with a #vote. And demand their new reps put in safeguards
Be the second kind of person
#Cynicism is acceptance of #fascism
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Tennessee library director ousted after refusing to remove LGBTQ books | WPLN News
Rutherford County’s top librarian is out of a job after refusing to remove more than a hundred books the library board deemed inappropriate. Luanne JamesCamellia Burris (WPLN News | Nashville Public Radio)
Inside The Contested Origins Of The ‘Jack And Jill’ Nursery Rhyme
By Kaleena Fraga
From the executions of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette to a satirization of King Charles I's liquor tax, there are countless theories about the true meaning of "Jack and Jill."
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Jack and Jill from the book "Denslow's Mother Goose" at PG:
The Jack And Jill Nursery Rhyme And The Meaning Behind It
The "Jack and Jill" nursery rhyme dates back to the 18th century, and there are many theories about the potential symbolism behind its lyrics.Kaleena Fraga (All That's Interesting)
More of this, please!
#Sweden goes #BackToBasics, swapping screens for books in the classroom
By Undark Magazine, April 2026
"In 2023, the Swedish government announced that the country’s schools would be going back to basics, emphasizing skills such as #reading and #writing, particularly in early grades. After mostly being sidelined, physical #books are now being reintroduced into classrooms, and students are learning to write the old-fashioned way: by hand, with a pencil or pen, on sheets of paper. The Swedish government also plans to make schools #CellphoneFree throughout the country."
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#NeoLuddite #RealLearning #AISucks #NoPhonesInSchool #PaperAndPen #NoAI #RealLearning
Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom
Sweden is bringing back books amid declining test scores.Undark Magazine (Ars Technica)
My new bookblog - it's called 'Quite Bookish', which in time is going to become the name of my book editing business.
I took another look at S*b*a*k as a potential place to host it, but recoiled. It's such an odd platform.
In the end, I've gone for tried and trusted WordPress with my own domain.
Very pleased (and surprised) to discover quitebookish.com was available.
My introductory post tells you what it's all about.
#books #bookstodon #bookblogging #writing
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Reading, mostly
“The days were quiet. They did not feel particularly quiet or happy but through them ran the sense, like an underground river, that there would come a time when these days would be looked back on a…Quite Bookish
Navidson: Why won't you publish my documentary??
Film Producer: Well, first there's the pacing issue.
Navidson: YES!!! That's what I've been trying to explain! The house measures a half pace bigger on the inside!!
Ohhhhhhh. Sagan Hawkes just dropped a three and a half mile essay about The House Of Leaves..........
(If you haven't read the book, go do that first, and since he's gonna tie this in with MyHouse.wad, then play that or watch a playthrough, and only then watch the essay.)
(Seriously. House of Leaves is not a read so much as an experience. It's the book I feel the most about every time I'm reminded it exists.)
Today's the last day of the Barnes & Noble preorder sale, including my forthcoming novel The Riven Kingdom, coming 26th October from Angry Robot.
@barnesandnoble.com
Premium and Reward members can get 25% off preorders of this and many other great titles #BNPreorder
And isn't this cover by Alice Coleman fabulous?!
This is exciting. My new novel The Riven Kingdom is published on 27th October 2026.
Today, Wednesday and Thursday this week, @barnesandnoble.com Premium and Reward members can get 25% off on preorders. #BNPreorder
This does also mean that everyone can now admire the fabulous cover art 😊
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#Books #SFF #Fantasy #EpicFantasy
Looking for something to read? I've joined up with a bunch of other authors from this year's #SPFBO to offer our books as a bundle.
Get 25 books from 25 authors for $25!!
Includes #FantasyBooks from sub-genres like: #LowFantasy #HighFantasy #UrbanFantasy #EpicFantasy #DarkFantasy #SwordAndSorcery #Romantasy & #Horror
itch.io/b/3592/spfbo-2026
Only available until the end of the month!
@bookstodon @fantasy
#IndieBooks #IndieAuthors #Bookstodon #SelfPromo #BookSale #SFFBookClub #SFFBooks #books
Featured story: "It didn’t take long before Tammy Fogle, the leader of our local Moms for Liberty group, issued 27 book challenges. She had no children attending our schools, but SB 13 had opened the door for her." texasobserver.org/abilene-isd-…
#censorship #library #education #schools #politics #USpol #fascism #books #bookstodon #Texas #news
How a High School Librarian in Abilene Fought Back Against Moms for Liberty
I entered this profession just as the storm clouds of the current book-banning push were starting to gather; now I’m in the middle of it.Kalyn Gensic (The Texas Observer)
#Librarians are still out there fighting the good fight! 💪📚
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Tennessee library director refuses to remove 190 children’s books
“An act of patriotism.”Kelly Milan (WWLP)
