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#OTD in 1715.
A total solar eclipse is visible across northern Europe and northern Asia, as predicted by Edmond Halley to within four minutes accuracy. He also drew a predictive map showing the path of totality across Great Britain. The original map was about 20 miles off the observed eclipse path, mainly due to his use of inaccurate lunar ephemeris. After the eclipse, he corrected the eclipse path, and added the path and description of the 1724 total solar eclipse.
#lisp #books #commonlisp
A few years ago I have created a visual overview of (mostly) Common Lisp related books... Good thing: even the older ones can be useful, given that the core language hasn't changed that much over the last years.
American author E. E. Smith was born #OTD in 1890.
E. E. "Doc" Smith is considered a major figure in the history of science fiction literature, particularly for his development of the space opera genre. His first major work, "The Skylark of Space" (1928), is often considered one of the first space operas. Perhaps his most famous work, the Lensman series, began with "Triplanetary" in 1934.
Books by E. E. Smith at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/9515
Books by Smith, E. E. (Edward Elmer) (sorted by popularity)
Project Gutenberg offers 73,438 free eBooks for Kindle, iPad, Nook, Android, and iPhone.Project Gutenberg
There Before the Chaos, K. B. Wagers
RogerBW's Blog2018 SF, first of a trilogy that's also a sequel to the Indranan War series. Empress Hailimi is trying to keep her empire out of the war between two lots of highly advanced aliens… but why do all the factions want her working for them?
SPUNGE. A thirsty fellow, a great drinker. To spunge; to eat and drink at another's cost. Spunging-house: a bailiff's lock-up-house, or repository, to which persons arrested are taken, till they find bail, or have spent all their money:
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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#books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #crime #language #slang @histodons
#PaulAuster est mort hier et c'est tout un entrelacs de textes, de récits, d'histoires et de mémoires qui surgissent tout d'un coup.
Beaucoup de ses livres questionnent le rôle du hasard dans nos vies et nos identités.
C'est notamment le cas dans la Trilogie new-yorkaise, que j'ai relue récemment pour vérifier si le texte provoquait toujours autant de fascination chez moi : c'est toujours le cas.
Plein de douceur pour ses proches, dont je partage la peine.
#litterature #mastolivre #books
Literary Activism | Book Riot | Substack
News and tools for engaging in literary activism, from ending book bans to supporting libraries and more. Click to read Literary Activism, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.literaryactivism.substack.com
Jag har tre små löjliga mål med 2024
(I have three small, silly goals for 2024).
🖥️ Lära mig Hugo static site generator (Learn Hugo static site generator)
🌐 Hosta egna Webbserver på min raspberry pi 3 (Host my own web server on my Raspberry Pi 3)
📚 Läsa minst 6 böcker (Read at least 6 books)
#rpi #raspberrypi #hugo #webdev #reading #books #Bookstodon
AI-generated books on Amazon now have the potential to kill people, as they've moved into the realm of mushroom foraging. Guides have popped up like, well, mushrooms, packed with information that makes no sense and could easily be dangerous, illustrated with structures that are "the mycological equivalent of a picture of a hot blond with six fingers and too many teeth," writes Vox's Constance Grady. Here's more.
#Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon #Science #Foraging #AI #ArtificialIntelligence
The AI ebook foraging grift that can literally poison you
When AI comes for mushroom foragers.Constance Grady (Vox)
#OTD in 1852.
Roget's Thesaurus, created by retired British physician Peter Mark Roget, is first published as Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases Classified and Arranged so as to Facilitate the Expression of Ideas and Assist in Literary Composition in London.
Roget's Thesaurus at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10681
Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.Project Gutenberg
We wanted to have a quiet afternoon and so we went to go to Kapej Coffee on the Brown Line. It is one of our favorite places in #Chicago with some of the best #coffee in the city. In fact, the owner was roasting coffee fresh in a little alcove off the counter.
@dohappybelove made a #painting and @seanbala started #reading “The Lost Cause” by @pluralistic - a wonderful Sunday!
#Illinois #Art #MastoArt #Books #Bookstodon #SSF #Solarpunk @coffee @bookstodon
⚠️ 🚨 April 27 & 28🚨 ⚠️
Avoid this: It is NOT a book festival
Ottawa Book Festival Platforming Far-Right Speakers Uses Fake Employees and Misleading Sponsors
"But not only will this year’s event platform several far-right speakers linked to the 2022 Freedom Convoy occupation, a number of the festival’s corporate sponsors and key employees also appear to be misleading or fake."
👉 Info about organizers in article.⬇️ Please read it.👀
#News #Books #Festival #Ottawa
https://pressprogress.ca/ottawa-book-festival-platforming-far-right-speakers-uses-fake-employees-and-misleading-sponsors/
Ottawa Book Festival Platforming Far-Right Speakers Uses Fake Employees and Misleading Sponsors
Mexican Embassy backs out of local book festival as organizations listed as corporate sponsors ask for their logos to be removed from websitePressProgress
Proposed bill in Alabama to allow the arrest of librarians.
No one is perfect—not even librarians. But professional #librarians are terrific. They're dedicated public servants, and they know how to library better than politicians do.
Let's trust librarians.
https://www.alreporter.com/2024/04/26/house-advances-bill-allowing-arrest-of-librarians/
#Libraries #Books #Mastodon #Reading #Bookstodon #Censorship #BookBans #Legislation
House advances bill allowing arrest of librarians
The bill would provide an avenue for librarians to be arrested if someone challenges a book as being "harmful to minors."Jacob Holmes (Alabama Political Reporter)
Blue Machine paperback incoming! UK publication is this Thursday, May 2nd. The hardback is such a very beautiful object, with the Spilhaus projection of the ocean in blue and gold, and it will still be available. But now there's one with a wave on front too.
If you don't yet know why the ocean matters, and why it's SO much more than a blue filler with fish in, this is for you.
'In Helen Czerski's hands, the mechanical becomes magical. An instant classic' -Tristan Gooley
Can I have some fleeting passions with a somewhat changeable base of continuity? Please, and thank you... 😂
@bookquote @bookstodon @bookbubble @books
#BookQuote #Books #Bookstodon #Bookworm #Bookwyrm #Bookstodon #BookLove #BoostingIsSharing
Something read and reviewed, and something reviewed and published (and read, hopefully)
#books #reviews #systematicreviews #multiplesclerosis
https://neurontosomething.wordpress.com/2024/04/27/my-brain-citation-needed/
"Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience."
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (ed. 1793)
British writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights Mary Wollstonecraft was born #OTD in 1759. In "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" (1792), Wollstonecraft argued that women are not naturally inferior to men but appear so only because of a lack of education.
Books by Mary Wollstonecraft at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/84
Books by Wollstonecraft, Mary (sorted by popularity)
Project Gutenberg offers 73,397 free eBooks for Kindle, iPad, Nook, Android, and iPhone.Project Gutenberg
Of the 58,000+ books published per year:
- 90% will sell less than 2,000 copies
- 50% will sell LESS THAN A DOZEN COPIES
Great, very readable piece on book publishing and how it's very much like being a VC...
https://www.elysian.press/p/no-one-buys-books
#Books #Writing #Publishing
No one buys books
Everything we learned about the publishing industry from Penguin vs. DOJ.Elle Griffin (The Elysian)
As Jews around the world begin to celebrate the festival of #Passover tonight, they’ll open up thousands of different editions of the Haggadah, the guide to the ritual feast.
The curator of a Judaica library looked through their collection of hundreds of Haggadahs to highlight three of his favorites – including this groundbreaking edition published in Amsterdam in 1695.
Chag sameach to all who celebrate!
From sumptuous engravings to stick-figure sketches, Passover Haggadahs − and their art − have been evolving for centuries
A scholar highlights some of the most interesting versions of the Passover text and how they’ve met communities’ changing needs around the world.The Conversation
Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes died #OTD in 1616.
Much of his life was spent in relative poverty and obscurity, which led to many of his early works being lost. His literary career is noted for several works, although "Don Quijote" remains his most celebrated:
La Galatea (1585), Don Quijote, Part I (1605), Novelas Ejemplares (1613), Don Quijote, Part II (1615),
Los Trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda (1617).
Books by Miguel de Cervantes at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/505
Books by Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de (sorted by popularity)
Project Gutenberg offers 73,365 free eBooks for Kindle, iPad, Nook, Android, and iPhone.Project Gutenberg
A bill in Louisiana, HB 777, would make it a crime for librarians to use public funds to join the American Librarian Association or attend an ALA conference, punishable with prison time and hard labor for up to two years.
#libraries #education #books #librarians #theocracy
They are right you know? If you aren't faithful to the book, why bother rushing and ruin TV adaptation? Target audiences? Profits? Cavill doesn't think so. Nor does Sapkowski or GRRM. Game of Thrones? Heroes? American Gods? And others. He's a fan of the original Witcher story from the books. Respect for the original material matters. Benioff better not do Liu Cixin injustice in season 2.
#books #3BodyProblem #GoT #TV #Writer
A Brief History of Fascist Lies by Federico Finchelstein, 2020
"There is no better book on fascism's complex and vexed relationship with truth."––Jason Stanley, author of How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
@bookstodon
#books
#nonfiction
#fascism
#OTD in 1910.
Halley's comet reappears after 76 years, and Mark Twain dies at his home, Stormfield, the day after the comet's perihelion. In his autobiography, Twain wrote, "I came in with Halley's comet in 1835. It's coming again next year (1910), and I expect to go out with it. The Almighty has said no doubt, 'Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.'"
#TomGauld on #Bluebeard – #cartoon | #Books | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/books/picture/2024/apr/20/tom-gauld-on-bluebeard-cartoon
"Big publishers are suing to cut off libraries’ ownership and control of digital books, opening new paths for digital book bans and dangerous surveillance."
Support the Internet Archive.
https://www.battleforlibraries.com/
Battle for Libraries
Don’t let libraries die. As the future goes digital, major publishers are suing to cut off libraries’ defense of digital books from censorship. It’s time to fight back.Fight for the Future
https://xeowoolfe.wixsite.com/chronicles/post/episode-5-signification-blues-parts-i-and-ii
Episode 5— Signification Blues. Parts I and II.
A treat for readers for this episode. Since this is the first freshly written (from scratch) material from this year, I have decided to post the entire 56 (paperback) page episode directly here in the website for a limited time.Xeo Woolfe
"Thirty-one authors and translators have withdrawn their work from consideration for or declined PEN America’s 2024 literary awards over the organisation’s 'failure to protect' Palestinian writers in Gaza.
"Nine out of 10 longlistees for the PEN/Jean Stein book award, worth $75,000, have withdrawn their books. Christina Sharpe, Catherine Lacey and Joseph Earl Thomas are among the withdrawing writers."
@palestine #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #books #bookstodon @bookstodon
Writers withdraw from PEN America literary awards in support of Gaza
Authors and translators say PEN America has ‘had no criticism of American complicity in the bombardment of Gaza’, in stark contrast to other national centres of the organisationElla Creamer (The Guardian)
6 Badass Librarians Who Changed History
They will not be shushed.
BY APRIL WHITE
APRIL 5, 2024 via @atlasobscura
LIBRARIANS HAVE NEVER BEEN A quiet bunch: Information, after all, is power. To mark National Library Week—typically celebrated the second full week of April, fittingly, went into the archives to find our favorite stories of librarians who have fostered cultural movements, protected national secrets, and fought criminals.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/famous-librarians-who-changed-history
Danish author Karen Blixen was born #OTD in 1885. She is also known under her pen names Isak Dinesen, Tania Blixen, Osceola, and Pierre Andrézel.
Blixen is best known for Out of Africa (1937), an account of her life while in Kenya, and for one of her stories, Babette's Feast (1950). She is also noted for her Seven Gothic Tales (1934), Winter's Tales (1942), Last Tales (1957), Anecdotes of Destiny (1958) and Ehrengard (1963).
Well this looks interesting. A detailed oral history of early San Pedro punk, from '77 - '85
Detailed accounts of the early Hermosa Beach and South Bay punk scene, but mostly focused on The Minutemen.
#books #music #PunkRock #LA #SanPedro
A WAILING OF A TOWN "An Oral History of Early San Pedro Punk" 1977-1985 → revised hardcover book
Compiled and edited by Craig Ibarra _____________________ This book is a detailed oral history of early San Pedro punk, from 1977 to 1985, told...END FWY PRESS
Ever since they announced the movie with Ryan Gosling, I knew I had to check out Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary (especially after loving The Martian!). And let me tell you, I devoured this book in 3 days flat!
Ryland Grace, the main character, is totally endearing, and the story itself is gripping from page one.
#Books #ProjectHailMary #AndyWeir #MustRead
My birthday is coming in a few weeks and I would like to achieve the following milestone: Selling at least 46 copies of my books.
(For those who wonder, 46 refers to the age I'll then be.)
Will you help me?
https://books.creativeramblings.com
#writingcommunity #readers #bookstodon #books @bookstodon @writingcommunity @writing
C.L. Cannon's Lord of the Rings 💍🧙♂️ Fan Giveaway!
Discover new authors & Enter to Win!
https://clcannon.net/giveaways/ringers/
Prizes include:
*LOTR Special Edition Box Set, 📚
*Frodo & Sam Funko Pops, 🎎
*Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost camping mug ☕
*Po-tay-toes candle 🕯️
*The LOTR Adventure Book Game 🎲
*Fellowship of the Ring sticker pack 💌
*Second Breakfast enamel pin🥞
*Elven leaf bookmark! 🍃
#Giveaway #IndieAuthors #LOTR #Books #Swag
@bookstodon @bookstadon @sffbookclub @fantasy @ttrpg
C.L. Cannon’s Lord of the Rings Fan Giveaway!
Are you a fan of Lord of the Rings? Then this giveaway is for you! Prizes include: Lord of the Rings Special Edition Box Set, Frodo and Sam Funko Pops, Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost camping mug, Po-tay-toes candle, The Lord of The Rings Adventur…clcannon.net
Do you collect books?
I keep maybe 1/50 of the books I buy and try to sell the rest after I've read them but I'm interested how many of you keep collections and of what kind? Do you collect books from certain authors or from certain genres? Or do you brutally sell all you…BOOK SNS
I will look into this title, thanks for the recommendation.
"Under the Udala Trees" by Chinelo Okparanta is what I am currently listening to. I know you say that you are not an audio person, but many are so I will describe the audiobook a little. I enjoy the narrator, Robin Miles, and I have liked her narration in other books before. I'm only 20% into this story, set in Nigeria during late 60s/early 70s. So far I like it.
"Call and Response" by Gothataone Moeng.
Bought on a whim in Daunt Books Marylebone - and the first book by an author from Botswana I read. Stories that are both familiar (in their feelings) and very foreign (in their cultural context). A recommendation.
This is why I love good book stores & why I pass by Daunt Books when in London. I don't know any other book shop of that size that would be that international. So this is also a bookstore recommendation.
