Dan Brown Returns With a Hyperactive Testament to the Power of Books
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Ughhhh, et tu calibre?
Calibre is one of those pieces of software that I use from time to time but don't follow closely. I wasn't aware they'd been sipping from the poisoned chalice.
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New featuresRelease: 8.16.1 04 Dec, 2025; or here on their GitHub
- Allow asking AI questions about any book in your calibre library. Right click the "View" button and choose "Discuss selected book(s) with AI"
- AI: Allow asking AI what book to read next by right clicking on a book and using the "Similar books" menu
- AI: Add a new backend for "LM Studio" which allows running various AI models locally
Calibre is one of those pieces of software that I use from time to time but don't follow closely. I wasn't aware they'd been sipping from the poisoned chalice.
#calibre #FOSS #OpenSource #books #eBooks #eBookManager #AIPoisoning #InformationOilSpill
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What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? October 14
Breaking the chain
The role of the conscious observer has posed a stubborn problem for quantum measurement. Phenomenology offers a solution
By Steven French
Quantum theory at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/20207
Books I Read on Someone’s Recommendation: https://lydiaschoch.com/wednesday-weekly-blogging-challenge-books-i-read-on-someones-recommendation-2/
The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup
The Importance of Being Idle
What Paul Lafargue taught us about work
By Robert Zaretsky
https://theamericanscholar.org/the-importance-of-being-idle/
Lafarque at PG:
📚 The Long Walk by: Stephen King
In a dystopian near-future, America has fallen on hard times. Sixteen-year-old Ray Garraty is about to compete in the annual grueling match of stamina and wits known as the Long Walk. One hundred boys must keep a steady pace of four miles per hour day and night, without ever stopping.
...
https://bookblabla.com/book/the-long-walk
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #horrorfiction #sciencefiction #generalfiction #thrillers
"Every sensitive person carries in himself old cities enclosed by ancient walls."
Swiss writer Robert Walser was born #OTD in 1878.
One of Walser's most notable works is his collection of short prose pieces titled "Der Spaziergang" (1917). Walser's writing fell out of favor after his death in 1956, but experienced a revival in the late 20th century, thanks in part to the efforts of literary scholars and translators.
Books by Robert Walser at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/26294
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finished reading The Sound of the Mountain 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑
by Yasunari Kawabata.
In post-war Japan, an aging man grapples ineffectually with the autumn of his life, the failure of his children's marriages, and his slightly inappropriate relationship with his daughter-in-law. Calmly mellow & unfocussed, much like old age might be.
finished reading The Lathe of Heaven 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑
by Ursula Le Guin.
A man's dreams shape reality, and his therapist uses him as a tool to fix the wrongs in the world. But if utopia lacks free will, diversity & creativity, is it still utopia?
📚 Betting on You by: Lynn Painter
When seventeen-year-old Bailey starts a new job at a hotel waterpark, she is less than thrilled to see an old acquaintance is one of her coworkers. Bailey met Charlie a year ago on the long flight to Omaha, where she moved after her parents’ divorce. Charlie’s cynicism didn’t mix well with Bailey’s carefully ...
https://bookblabla.com/book/betting-on-you
#books #reading #libraries #romance #socialthemes #friendship
Books I’ve Read Whose Titles Begin With the Letter A: https://lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-books-ive-read-whose-titles-begin-with-the-letter-a/
📚 Beartown by: Fredrik Backman
By the lake in Beartown is an old ice rink, and in that ice rink Kevin, Amat, Benji, and the rest of the town’s junior ice hockey team are about to compete in the national semi-finals—and they actually have a shot at winning. All the hopes and dreams of this place now rest on the shoulders of a handful of teenage bo...
https://bookblabla.com/book/beartown
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #literaryfiction #sportsfiction
French philosopher, an influential early socialist thinker, and one of the founders of utopian socialism Charles Fourier was born #OTD in 1772.
He developed a comprehensive system of societal organization known as Fourierism which influenced many writers and thinkers such as Dostoevsky, André Breton, Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse and many others. He is is credited with having originated the word feminism in 1837.
About Fourier at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=charles+fourier&submit_search=Go%21
![Lithograph, "Vue d’un phalanstère, village français [composé] d’apres la théorie sociétaire de Ch. Fourier", H. Fugère. Date uncertain, but from 19th century. 860.05, Houghton Library, Harvard University](/proxy/post_attachment/152525/628e13e6de.jpg "Lithograph, \"Vue d’un phalanstère, village français [composé] d’apres la théorie sociétaire de Ch. Fourier\", H. Fugère. Date uncertain, but from 19th century. 860.05, Houghton Library, Harvard University")
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"Hypotheses, treated as mere poetic fancies in one age, scouted as scientific absurdities in the next — preparatory only to their being altogether forgotten — have often, when least expected, received confirmation from indirect channels, and, at length, become finally adopted as tenets, deducible from the sober exercise of induction."
Michael Faraday #BOTD in 1791.
I'm trying to decide who to read next. I've got a Joshua Whitehead novel for some Indigiqueer representation. I've also recently acquired some Andrea Gibson poetry, Charlie Jane Anders new book, and an older Alice Hoffman novel.
Choices, choices. Whatcha reading these days? And are you having any concentration issues?
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Mary Wollstonecraft, The Woman Who Laid the Foundation for Feminism
Think 18th-century feminism must be outdated? Think again—there is still so much to learn from the life and writing of Mary Wollstonecraft.
by Dr. Victoria C. Roskams
https://www.thecollector.com/mary-wollstonecraft-woman-laid-foundation-feminism/
Wollstonecraft at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/61
📚 Lights Out by: Navessa Allen
I want someone with a soul as black as night. Someone who would burn the world down for me and not lose a single minute of sleep over it.
Trauma nurse Aly Cappellucci doesn't need any more kinks. She likes the one she's landed on just fine. To her, nothing could top the masked men she follows online. ...
https://bookblabla.com/book/lights-out
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #romance #suspensefiction #humorous #blackhumor
“Knowledge leaves no room for chances.”
American lawyer, Union general in the American Civil War, politician, diplomat, & author Lew Wallace was born #OTD in 1827.
He is best known for his historical novel "Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ" (1880), which became one of the best-selling novels of the 19th century. He wrote several other novels, essays, and biographies, though none achieved the same level of success as Ben-Hur.
Books by Lew Wallace at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/836
