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Book 6 of DCC is shorter, but is about 12mm thicker. 70 page difference. The pages feel thinner and you can see the text on the other side more as well. Book 6 is a 10th printing and book 7 is a 5th printing. Doesn’t say years, so I wonder if they switched to thinner or back to thicker? Page · lemmy.world

The pages feel thinner and you can see the text on the other side more as well. Book 6 is a 10th printing and book 7 is a 5th printing. Doesn’t say years, so I wonder if they switched to thinner or back to thicker?

Book 6 of DCC is shorter, but is about 12mm thicker. 70 page difference.

https://lemmy.world/post/50718260

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67d

R.K. Hegelman on Fernando Pessoa, “an extreme and singular figure in a modern poetic tradition that views poems not just as texts, but as gnostic vehicles of self-annihilation and worldly renovation.”

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/1816395/i-multiplied-myself-to-feel-myself?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01M07W8MNQ2W0QED5E79D708K8&_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER

Books by Fernando Pessoa at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/9005

#books #literature #poetry

Photograph of Fernando Pessoa.

Pessoa is shown wearing round wire-framed glasses, a mustache, a fedora hat, and a suit with a tie.

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160d

Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, #kindle

A collection of 171 #books for you to read free on #KU. My book is DRM-free.

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https://books.bookfunnel.com/kureviews-may/9ncayvxar6

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61d

This was easily one of my slowest reads of the year. Not only was it a real slow burn, but it also forced me to take a few extended breaks along the way. >

#books #reading #fantasy #bookstodon #tadwilliams @bookstodon

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67d

Book Series I Want to Catch Up On: https://lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-book-series-i-want-to-catch-up-on/

#TopTenTuesday #Books #AmReading

Book cover for Semiosis (Semiosis, #1) by Sue Burke. Image on cover shows a red and yellow alien plant slowly unfurling its long, thin leaves.

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Anyone else exhausted by BOTH the AI slop and the epidemic of accusing things you hate of being AI? Me too! I was too, so this month’s podcast is on that topic: You Sure You’re Hunting Real Witches?

#antiai #writers #writingcommunity #books

https://writingafflictionpodcast.com/ai-witch-hunt/

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82d

Beatrix Potter's 160 years of Lake District legacy

For many readers, Beatrix Potter's classic children's books provide their very first introduction to this iconic landscape. Marking 160 years since her birth, her enduring legacy in her beloved Cumbria continues to be celebrated.

by Federica Bedendo, Mike Zeller, and Joshua Steer

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crk52ln0k87o

Books by Beatrix Potter at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/292

#books #literature

Beatrix Potter in 1913.

This is a photograph of author and illustrator Beatrix Potter, shown standing outside near a stone doorway and window, dressed in a long dark skirt, jacket, and holding a wide-brimmed hat in her hands.

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82d

Free book! The Myths and Legends of the Bantu and Other Africans is now available for download to email subscribers, and will be free until the end of the month.

This is an entertaining book that brings you a wonderful world of legends, folklore, and amazing creatures that will fuel your imagination.

It might be of interest to #academia

Get it here
https://www.ododopress.com/non-fiction/myths-and-legends-of-the-bantu/

#freebook #books #bookstodon #mythology #folklore

The cover of an ebook, with a brown color scheme. There are two creatures, half-people with only one hand or one leg, and with wings, they are colorful like moths but appear bluish. The text says Myths and Legends of the Bantu and Other Africans, Revised and Edited by Dilman Dila, written by Alice Werner.

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DAW Books – Vintage Sci-Fi Worth Collecting I wrote a quick history of the book publisher DAW, and how I recently became a collector of their classic sci-fi. Now with those newfangled pictures! Page · lemmy.world

I wrote a quick history of the book publisher DAW, and how I recently became a collector of their classic sci-fi. Now with those newfangled pictures!

DAW Books – Vintage Sci-Fi Worth Collecting

https://lemmy.world/post/50256158

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81d

I never expected it to happen... But I think I love Dracula. It's a more entertaining read than I thought it would be!

#books #reading #horror

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68d

Library ‘illuminates’ art of calligraphy at downtown branch

Spokane Public Library is celebrating the art of lettering with local author and illustrator Karyn Jeffrey.

By Rachel Baker

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2026/aug/17/library-illuminates-art-of-calligraphy-at-downtown/

Books about Calligraphy at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/39737

#books #literature #calligraphy

Writing & Illuminating, & Lettering

Author: Edward Johnston

Contributor: A. E. R. Gill

Illustrator: Noel Rooke

This is a calligraphy instructional diagram, showing pen angle technique and letterforms for a broad-edge/straight pen script.

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68d

35 Hilarious Reading Memes for Bookworms Who Have No Shelf-Control

https://www.rd.com/list/reading-memes/

Open books stack up from the floor.

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81d

Marvelous Marbled Paper

What is marbling? Marbling involves floating paints or pigments on a liquid bath and moving the paint around to create designs before laying down paper to pick up the patterns.

by Allison Rein

https://www.aip.org/library/ex-libris-universum/marvelous-marbled-paper?mcid=81301bd1cc&utm_source=AIP_newsletter&utm_source=email

#books #literature #MarbledMonday

Endpaper from a book published in Scotland in 1842. Encyclopedia Britannica 7th edition.

A traditional marbled paper, featuring swirling patterns of red, gold, dark green, and blue-gray with white speckled dots throughout, created using the technique of floating colored inks/paints on water and transferring the pattern to paper.

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81d

From author to anime hero: the unlikely revival of a Japanese literary star Page · lemmy.dbzer0.com

From author to anime hero: the unlikely revival of a Japanese literary star

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/73399081

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From author to anime hero: the unlikely revival of a Japanese literary star Page · lemmy.dbzer0.com

From author to anime hero: the unlikely revival of a Japanese literary star

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/73399074

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88d

I send thanks to the buyer from Maine who purchased a framed print of

Light Reading -- https://fineartamerica.com/featured/light-reading-steve-henderson.html?product=framed-print

May the artwork take you to a peaceful afternoon with a very, very good book.

#art #artwork #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart #ayearforart #reading #books #sale #fedigiftshop #home #woman #beauty #peace #wallart #homedecor #literacy #book #novel #painterly

Woman reading a book.

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74d

Take a chance on one of my otherworldly stories about people who risk everything for the sake of friendship, trust, & community. You also get heaps of humor, whimsy, sarcasm, & optimism. Sometimes gritty, but never grim.

Buy DRM-free epubs or print direct from me:
https://kmherkes.com/the-bookshop1

Kindle & print from the Bezos Bazaar: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00L8MX7U4

Other vendors:
https://books2read.com/kmherkes

#bookstodon
#BookPromo
#books
#reading
#SciFi
#ScienceFiction
#fantasy
#hopepunk

Descriptive text falls to either side of the paperback and ebook editions of Controlled Descent by KM Herkes on a background of pinkand blue sunset clouds. Text snippets are: chosen family vibes, like a heist, but for justice, hopepunk-y, disability rep. lots of swearing, no love triangles, not dystopian, sweet romance side plot, a little violence, but not grimdark! The book cover images show two tiny figures walking across a snowfield toward a distant futuristic cityscape and stepp mountains while a plane leaves a contrail overhead on blue sky.

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68d

"[Spiegelman] has no hesitation in describing the Trump administration as fascist. 'It’s #fascism,' he says. 'It’s not nazism, per se, but it has a template that it’s following. And it does have to do with othering, which is the basis of what Maus is about, it’s: ‘OK, you guys are mice, we’re cats.’ Maus is among the many books to be banned by various Republican school boards in recent years."

https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2026/aug/15/art-spiegelman-the-us-needs-a-counter-revolution

#USPol
#Books
#BannedBooks

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86d

Anthropic spent billions of dollars to slice the spines off millions of books, including very rare ones.

AI companies are purchasing large quantities of used and rare books and scanning their contents to train LLMs. They then turn the originals to pulp.

The sum of human thought, digitized and shredded. Every book that gets scanned disappears from the physical world permanently.

Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email.

#AI #Books #Culture #Civilization #Tech #LLMs

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82d

Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera’s Blue House in Coyoacán Was a Refuge for Leon Trotsky... Until It Wasn‘t

H. Keith Melton and Nigel West on Trotsky and Kahlo‘s Simmering Affair Amidst Political Turmoil

https://lithub.com/frida-kahlo-and-diego-riveras-blue-house-in-coyoacan-was-a-refuge-for-leon-trotsky-until-it-wasnt/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01KYYNM4RNPMRWKEC9QGHMW3GV&_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER

#books #literature #history

Kahlo with husband Diego Rivera in 1932

by Carl Van Vechten

Kahlo is shown wearing a chunky beaded necklace and traditional-style dress, while Rivera stands beside her smiling, dressed in a dark suit.

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81d

5 Timeless Historical Fiction Books to Read After the ‘Odyssey’

These classic tales of fictionalized history are able to stand the test of time.

https://www.mentalfloss.com/literature/books/timeless-historical-fiction-books-read-odyssey?utm_source=RSS

"A Tale of Two Cities"

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/98

"Les Misérables"

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/135

"War and Peace"

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2600

#books #literature

This illustration by François-Louis Schmied was created for Homer's "Odyssey." It shows Odysseus meeting the Phaeacian princess Nausicaa on the shore of Scheria. Odysseus is naked and kneeling, holding an olive branch in his right hand and raising his left hand. Nausicaa stands in the center with a tall staff or walking spear. She appears unafraid of Odysseus, while three of her maids stand close behind her.

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81d

The first Ebook in each of my series of novels is now free (except on Amazon, but you may be able to get then to price match):
https://books2read.com/SkyChildren
https://books2read.com/TrollSong
https://books2read.com/JigsawCity
https://books2read.com/SheHuntsDemons
https://books2read.com/TymeStarwitch

@bookstodon
#author #indieauthor #writing #fantasy #scifi #sciencefiction #sff #sciencefantasy #scifi #actionadventure #fiction #books

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112d

A Brief Survey of the Great American Novel(s)

Do We Need The G.A.N.? Why Do We Keep Looking?

by Emily Temple (from the archives)

https://lithub.com/a-brief-survey-of-great-american-novels/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01KW6WGJJBBH0691QDA4S4WTD9&_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER

American novels at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=american+novels

#books #literature

The title page of "The Great American Novel" by William Carlos Williams, published in Paris by Three Mountains Press in 1923, featuring simple typography and a small decorative publisher's emblem at the center.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/63888

The title page of "Studies in Classic American Literature" by D.H. Lawrence, published in New York by Thomas Seltzer in 1923, featuring clean minimal typography and a small triangular publisher's emblem at the center.

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/60547/60547-h/60547-h.htm

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68d

Nothing is Boring. Arnold Bennett's Self Help

And reading advice from John Stuart Mill

by Henry Oliver

https://www.commonreader.co.uk/p/nothing-is-boring-arnold-bennetts

Books by Arnold Bennett (including How to Live on 24 Hours a Day) at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/859

#books #literature #literaryCriticism

Bennett in 1928.

He is shown seated in what appears to be a study or office, wearing a suit with a mustache, hands clasped in his lap, with a desk covered in papers to his left.

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39d

Is Edward Gibbon Still Accurate on the Fall of Rome?

Edward Gibbon published his iconic history in 1776, but what do modern archaeologists and historians think of his core thesis on Rome's collapse.

https://www.thecollector.com/is-edward-gibbon-still-accurate-fall-of-rome/

#books #literature #RomanHistory

This photo captures the Colosseum in Rome from a low, close-up angle. You can see its weathered stone arches, with blue sky and white clouds above.

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