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I've just installed #koreader on a couple of my devices and like it so far. Connecting to #Calibre wirelessly works on one of them.
I've just installed #koreader on a couple of my devices and like it so far. Connecting to #Calibre wirelessly works on one of them.
If I could code, I'd try to make a plugin that automatically updates progress with #TheStoryGraph if that is even possible. \#books @bookstodon
I've been using Calibre to manage my ebooks for years, but haven't delved very deep into what it's actually capable of. But it seems that the combination of koreader and Calibre might be very useful.
I've been using Calibre to manage my ebooks for years, but haven't delved very deep into what it's actually capable of. But it seems that the combination of koreader and Calibre might be very useful. I'm not quite sure what to do yet, but having Calibre serve books to my Kobo devices and automatic syncing between them over wireless sounds super useful. I'm sure I can squeeze in a raspberry pi in there too somewhere. :-) Time to tinker, I think. \#Kobo #KoReader #Calibre #RaspberryPi @bookstodon
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Are you a webmaster with your own domain and web site?
If you have your own domain name and a web site please send me a mention with the link. I'm especially grateful for webmasters who publish RSS feeds of their sites.
I am avoiding all big tech sites as much as I can. This means I am mostly avoiding free blog sites, forums, most social media (except some Fediverse), video sites, substack, whatever. I am truly interested in reading and viewing only subject matter published by webmasters who have taken the time to set up their own web sites. This separates most low-effort work from real work. This is a good sanity check as well.
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Title: Millions of cats Author: Wanda Gág Original publication: New York: Coward McCann, Inc, 1928
A short, syrupy, predictable children's fable that is totally worth it. The story has a multiple morals entwined in a five-minute read without being moralistic. Although a children's fable the moral is every bit applicable to adults and even old codgers. I adore old writings such as this. This is a free Gutenberg book available at the link below.
Is it too soon to Covid times from 2020 in a fictional story? I’m thinking about including that as one of the plots in an upcoming book. #writingcommunity #authorsofmastodon #author #amwriting
Is it too soon to Covid times from 2020 in a fictional story? I’m thinking about including that as one of the plots in an upcoming book. #writingcommunity #authorsofmastodon #author #amwriting #bookstodon @bookstodon @[email protected]
My heart aches for the children who will no longer have access to their local library because some arrogant assholes decided to be offended by books with new ideas and different perspectives.
My heart aches for the children who will no longer have access to their local library because some arrogant assholes decided to be offended by books with new ideas and different perspectives.
The cruelty is the point.
https://bookriot.com/donnelly-public-library-adults-only/
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#booksuggestions anybody know of some novels or series with themes including the good side of humanity? I really like #StarTrek for that, where the human heart is challenged yet prevails.
\#booksuggestions anybody know of some novels or series with themes including the good side of humanity? I really like #StarTrek for that, where the human heart is challenged yet prevails.
Not necessarily looking for Sci-Fi but not excluding it either. Maybe something historical or steampunky would be cool. 😅
A book I edited was written up in the local paper.
A book I edited was written up in the local paper.
So happy to see Shannon Bohrer's book, Judicial Soup: One Man's Wrongful Conviction and What It Means for Criminal Justice Reform, getting some media attention. This is a very relatable book on a hugely important topic. When you read it, first you'll be angry. Then you'll think, "If it can happen to that guy, it can happen to anyone."
This week I've been mainly reading, no. 153.
This week I've been mainly reading, no. 153.
Each of Emma Newman's Planetfall quartet explores a different aspect of the same overarching story of religious driven intergalactic migration. In Atlas Alone (2019), the fourth story centres on an elite gamer & their attempt to uncover & then take revenge for a crime against humanity. To say much more would ruin the plot for you, but as with the others, this is great, fascinating sci-fi, which has a great payoff at the end.
The actual NORTHERN LIGHTS showed up in Virginia and I was too engrossed in a book to notice. #bookstodon @librarians
The actual NORTHERN LIGHTS showed up in Virginia and I was too engrossed in a book to notice. #bookstodon @bookstodon @librarians
"One never lies to people, they lie to themselves. A good liar gives fools what they want to hear and allows them to free themselves from the facts at hand, and choose the level of self delusion that
"One never lies to people, they lie to themselves. A good liar gives fools what they want to hear and allows them to free themselves from the facts at hand, and choose the level of self delusion that fits their level of foolishness and moral terpitude."
\--Carlos Ruiz Zafon
10 authors, of whose books I've read at least five:
10 authors, of whose books I've read at least five:
Ursula Le Guin Kim Stanley Robinson Octavia Butler N. K. Jemisin Becky Chambers Iain M. Banks Martha Wells M. R. Carey Lois McMaster Bujold Vonda McIntyre
This week I've been mainly reading, no. 148.
This week I've been mainly reading, no. 148.
The first book of Ann Leckie's Radch trilogy, Ancillary Justice (2013) offers an interesting plot of AI, identity & insurrection. Leckie builds an interesting (political) world/universe for her tale of revenge & becoming, which while at times a little too tricksy, overall remains a compelling bit of space-opera. If at times the plot seems a little too convoluted, the central idea(s) is/are intriguing & developed interestingly
My #bookreview is brief/won't spoil, to spread good, great, & spectacular #horror #books far & wide.
My #bookreview is brief/won't spoil, to spread good, great, & spectacular #horror #books far & wide.
The family trauma that pervades THE DAY OF THE DOOR is horrifying enough, but coupled with the intensely creepy events that occur, this story encapsulates "HORROR" in a masterful, terrifying way. Laurel Hightower has written a beautifully dark story about the Things that haunt our hearts. (Ghoulish Books)
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Looking forward to the Liz Truss book getting remaindered at The Works in a month or so. Sounds like the finest work of comedy since Airplane! The Movie. 📖 #books #bookstodon
Looking forward to the Liz Truss book getting remaindered at The Works in a month or so. Sounds like the finest work of comedy since Airplane! The Movie. 📖 #books #bookstodon @bookstodon
Ygdrasil, the Internet's first and oldest literary journal is still in operation. Below find three links, to the older archive and to the recent editions and to the old web page.
Ygdrasil, the Internet's first and oldest literary journal is still in operation. Below find three links, [1] to the older archive and [2] to the recent editions and [3] to the old web page.
"Ygdrasil, A Journal of the Poetic Arts is the first Literary Journal to be published on the Internet (1994)."
The oldest archives are here:
https://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/201/300/ygdrasil/index.html
Newer issues from about 2017 to date are here:
https://independentscholar.academia.edu/KlausGerken
The ugly old Internet page and archive is here:
https://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/201/300/ygdrasil/html/2017/17-02/users.synapse.net/kgerken/index.html
Enjoy!
Moneyland: Why Thieves and Crooks Now Rule the World and How to Take It Back by Oliver Bullough
Moneyland: Why Thieves and Crooks Now Rule the World and How to Take It Back by Oliver Bullough
Join the investigative journalist Oliver Bullough on a journey into Moneyland - the secret country of the lawless, stateless superrich. Learn how the institutions of Europe and the United States have become money-laundering operations, undermining the foundations of Western stability.
† Vernor Vinge (79)
† Vernor Vinge (79)
Rest in peace. Loved the Zones of Thought series.
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Well , I thoroughly enjoyed reading those... #scifi #books #bookstodon
Well @bookstodon, I thoroughly enjoyed reading those... #scifi #books #bookstodon
From yesterday, my review of the excellent Cascade Failure by L. M. Sagas. Published today.
From yesterday, my review of the excellent Cascade Failure by L. M. Sagas. Published today. https://susannashore.blogspot.com/2024/03/cascade-failure-by-l-m-sagas-review.html
COVID + fiction is a redundancy of terms.
@picklejr @[email protected] @[email protected] @bookstodon I really like #TheOrville for that. I think they went really far but beware that even if it starts as a comedy, it gets really serious and deep towards the end
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@robolemmy I've heard good things about Wayfarers! Marking down on my To-read list!
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@picklejr @[email protected] @[email protected] @bookstodon Ursula Le Guin
@picklejr @[email protected] @[email protected] @bookstodon I think what you're looking for is Gurren Lagann
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What thing is being denounced? Specifically, and exactly, what is being denounced?
Are you conflating the Bible with Christianity? The twain shall never meet.
More than half of the Bible was written and in circulation 900-1500 years before the existence of Christianity.
If you read the Bible without Christian blinders on, it is plain that the Bible condemns Christianity and all other religions as idolatry. Rather the Bible authors call men to worship God in spirit and truth without regard to a priesthood or place.
This dramatization shows a recorded event from the Bible demonstrating what Jesus taught about the end of religion:
@firefly @fskornia @TimWardCam @ChrisMayLA6 @bookstodon Interesting you quote the very thing you denounce.
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Secularism is the religion of the state. Secularism is ecumenicalism taken to its most logical extreme. It is a religion that subverts all other religions to the power of the state. Secularism was the religion of the Roman empire and remains so today.
Go into the capitol building and look up at the dome rotunda, and you will see their secular gods painted a la fresco for all to see.
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The sole purpose of religion is and always has been to control large masses of people.
There has never been any other purpose for religion. Take people's minds, take their labor, take their shekels. That's all it ever was for, a tyranny and a con so the worthless parasites incapable of making anything useful can leech off the masses and elevate themselves above their hosts.
Christians are especially guilty of this. Revelation says that God hates the heirarchical, pastoral grift model, calling it, 'The deeds of the oppressors of the people, which thing I hate.'
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'Judicial Soup' is a good title.
The 'criminal justice' system is an assembly line human trafficking racket run by con artists and villains hiding behind the deadly force of the criminal state.
They secretly say their prayers to Wackenhut for a return on investment. More warm bodies equals more cash in, more 'justification' for their racket.
@TimWardCam @ChrisMayLA6 Not necessarily. I think the greater scale has the potential to expand religion because the immense distances would reduce the potential of clash between ideologies. Looking at it historically, you can see the ways that sects of Christianity evolved and flourished when expanding from Europe to the American continents. It also proves that religion is a really good way to control masses of people. Ann Leckie's Imperial Radch books explore that a lot. @bookstodon
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Who knows? Not only has religion asserted its power in this century, we have also seen pseudo-religious ideologies with their messiahs, promised land, sacred texts - based on rigidly secular philosophies.
@ChrisMayLA6 @bookstodon I'm always puzzled by galactic scale SF which has religion as a thing. Surely, one might expect, by the time any civilisation has reached galactic scale it will long since have left religion behind it?
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They are being seen in diverse places, including the midwest and the mid south.
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Fools of a feather fantasize together.
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Did you enjoy the read because of the overt sexism and harassment? Asking for Comrade Stalin.
@Chip_Unicorn @bookstodon I am gonna boost this with the caveat that although Ferret Steinmetz is a good writer, he has a bad reputation for overt sexism and harassment. It's a damn shame. I really enjoyed 'The Sol Majestic.'