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I’ve been listening to the Wayfarer series (starts with A long way to small angry planet) and it’s really hit a lot of interesting aliens and alien cultures.

The fourth book (The Galaxy and the ground within) doesn’t even have any human characters, and it’s a lot about the different alien cultures.

Like the alien that doesn’t have ears, so only can communicate with other species using an implanted “talk box”.

#Reading #Scifi #Wayfarers #Aliens

#reading #scifi #aliens #Wayfarers

This could have been an article.

#Reading

Screenshot of The Guardian website. Headline: Science Weekly – We're reading less. And it's making us stupid. Below is a link to the article, which is in fact a video.
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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. github.com/doctorhetfield-cmd/…
#reading #kindle #koreader

GitHub - doctorhetfield-cmd/simpleui.koplugin: A highly customizable UI plugin for KOReader that features a home screen, bottom navigation bar, top bar and desktop modules/widgets.

A highly customizable UI plugin for KOReader that features a home screen, bottom navigation bar, top bar and desktop modules/widgets. - doctorhetfield-cmd/simpleui.koplugin
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#reading #kindle #koreader @Elena Rossini 🌈

This is interesting news.

Swedish education officials are investing heavily again in traditional printed textbooks.

The national strategy aims to phase out digital devices for children under the age of six entirely, following a drop in international reading assessment scores.

Research indicates that the physical act of handwriting activates complex neural networks governing motor skills, vision, memory, and language-cognitive benefits that are largely lost on a keyboard.
#Education #Reading

This image features a photograph of a young, blonde boy sitting at a desk in what appears to be a classroom setting. The boy, wearing a dark navy blue zip-up jacket, is leaning over his desk, focused attentively as he writes on a piece of paper using a wooden pencil. The background shows a soft-focus classroom environment with another child sitting at a desk in the distance. Prominently overlaid across the bottom portion of the photo is bold text in a light yellow/orange font that reads: "Sweden is officially reversing its use of digital technologies in education and returning to handwriting and books"
#education #reading

The tech industry is pushing our planet to the breaking point.

HYPERSCALE tells the story of the growing fight around data centers. It comes out October 20.

Preorder yours today: hyperscalebook.com

#tech #datacenters #generativeai #books #reading #climate

Hyperscale by Paris Marx

An eye-opening account of how the data-center boom is pushing our planet past its breaking point. A new book by Paris Marx.
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#books #climate #tech #reading #generativeAI #datacenters

Voracious reader, book collector, and scholar Ignacio Sánchez Prado writes about how he began collecting books when growing up in Mexico, and why it was and is so important to him to develop his working library. He takes an interesting look at the future or not of such libraries and of how they relate to scholarship.
#books #libraries #reading #bookstodon

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A Library on the Eve of Packing - Pittsburgh Review of Books

I hope a bibliophile like me can be forgiven to write an essay on the eve of my library being packed. Since the publication of Walter Benjamin’s 1931
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#books #reading #libraries #bookstodon

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