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<p>Three women translators who bridged cultures</p><p>Stories of Birgitte Thott, Sarah Austin, and Émilie du Châtelet.</p><p>by Małgorzata Szynkielewska via @Europeanaeu</p><p><a href="https://www.europeana.eu/en/stories/three-women-translators-who-bridged-cultures" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.europeana.eu/en/stories/three-women-translators-who-bridged-cultures"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.europeana.eu/en/stories/th</span><span class="invisible">ree-women-translators-who-bridged-cultures</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/translator/" rel="tag">#translator</a></p>

<p>In December 1891.</p><p>Thomas Hardy writes &quot;The Son&#x27;s Veto&quot; (collected in Life&#x27;s Little Ironies), which he regards as his best short story.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life%27s_Little_Ironies" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life%27s_Little_Ironies"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life%27s</span><span class="invisible">_Little_Ironies</span></a></p><p>Life&#x27;s Little Ironies at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3047" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3047</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>Banned in Texas</p><p>Struggle over academic freedom in Texas state universities has a long history. Today it&#x27;s often over race and gender; in the 1940s, it was over things like John Dos Passos&#x27;s USA trilogy. <br> <br>By John Mark Ockerbloom</p><p><a href="https://everybodyslibraries.com/2025/12/27/banned-in-texas/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="everybodyslibraries.com/2025/12/27/banned-in-texas/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">everybodyslibraries.com/2025/1</span><span class="invisible">2/27/banned-in-texas/</span></a></p><p>John Dos passos at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2015" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2015"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/2015</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>Working to Preserve The Man Who Weighed the World</p><p>By Corinne Mona</p><p><a href="https://www.aip.org/history-programs/niels-bohr-library/ex-libris-universum/working-preserve-man-who-weighed-world" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.aip.org/history-programs/niels-bohr-library/ex-libris-universum/working-preserve-man-who-weighed-world"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.aip.org/history-programs/n</span><span class="invisible">iels-bohr-library/ex-libris-universum/working-preserve-man-who-weighed-world</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a></p>

<p>Edgar Allan Poe’s Mechanical Imagination</p><p>Behind The Raven’s melancholy lies a theory of composition shaped by magazines, machines, and modernity.</p><p>By: Danny Robb </p><p><a href="https://daily.jstor.org/edgar-allan-poes-mechanical-imagination/?utm_source=Klaviyo&amp;utm_medium=campaign&amp;utm_id=01KJVCCCNCPMWJ7N0E01YF4D4S&amp;_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="daily.jstor.org/edgar-allan-poes-mechanical-imagination/?utm_source=Klaviyo&amp;utm_medium=campaign&amp;utm_id=01KJVCCCNCPMWJ7N0E01YF4D4S&amp;_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">daily.jstor.org/edgar-allan-po</span><span class="invisible">es-mechanical-imagination/?utm_source=Klaviyo&amp;utm_medium=campaign&amp;utm_id=01KJVCCCNCPMWJ7N0E01YF4D4S&amp;_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER</span></a></p><p>The Raven at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14082" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14082</a><br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17192" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17192</a><br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25525" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25525</a><br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45484" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45484</a><br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55749" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55749</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>In November 1852.</p><p>Leo Tolstoy&#x27;s debut novel, Childhood («Детство», Detstvo), is published under the initials L. N. in this month&#x27;s issue of the Saint Petersburg literary journal Sovremennik.</p><p><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/2142" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/2142</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>The erotic poems of Bilitis</p><p>A lush translation of this late-discovered lesbian poet added to the legacy of Sappho, but there was a trickster at work</p><p>by Cat Lambert</p><p><a href="https://aeon.co/essays/how-a-playful-literary-hoax-illuminates-classical-queerness" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="aeon.co/essays/how-a-playful-literary-hoax-illuminates-classical-queerness"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">aeon.co/essays/how-a-playful-l</span><span class="invisible">iterary-hoax-illuminates-classical-queerness</span></a></p><p>Les Chansons de Bilitis at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4708" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4708</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a></p>

<p>50% off @ <a href="/tags/smashwords/" rel="tag">#Smashwords</a>: <a href="https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1657116" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.smashwords.com/books/view/1657116"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.smashwords.com/books/view/</span><span class="invisible">1657116</span></a></p><p>After experiencing the death of his wife and child, destruction of his home world, an addiction forced on him by the one responsible and a third of the galaxy falling under the heel of that tyrant, Levi Jacobs, a wizard, seeks to unravel the secrets of time and fate.</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span><br><a href="/tags/author/" rel="tag">#author</a> <a href="/tags/indieauthor/" rel="tag">#indieauthor</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="/tags/sff/" rel="tag">#sff</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefantasy/" rel="tag">#sciencefantasy</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/actionadventure/" rel="tag">#actionadventure</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/eoysale25/" rel="tag">#EOYSale25</a> <a href="/tags/ebook/" rel="tag">#ebook</a> <a href="/tags/sale/" rel="tag">#sale</a> <a href="/tags/books2read/" rel="tag">#books2read</a> <a href="/tags/indiebooks/" rel="tag">#indiebooks</a></p>

<p>Leave the Internet Archive alone!</p><p>Except for book publishers, the Internet Archive has done no one any harm. But that hasn&#x27;t stopped hackers from beating up on the site over and over again.</p><p><a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3593110/leave-the-internet-archive-alone.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.computerworld.com/article/3593110/leave-the-internet-archive-alone.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.computerworld.com/article/</span><span class="invisible">3593110/leave-the-internet-archive-alone.html</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/digitallibrary/" rel="tag">#digitallibrary</a></p>

<p>In November 1868.</p><p>Robert Browning&#x27;s narrative poem The Ring and the Book begins four-part publication by Smith, Elder &amp; Co. in London. It is a major commercial and critical success.</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/50954" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/50954</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a></p>

<p>Victorian Illustrated Shakespeare Archive</p><p>The Victorian Illustrated Shakespeare Archive contains over 3000 illustrations from significant editions of Shakespeare&#x27;s plays in the Victorian period.</p><p>by Michael John Goodman (thanks <span class="h-card"><a href="https://digipres.club/@Ross" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Ross</span></a></span>)</p><p><a href="https://shakespeareillustration.org/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>shakespeareillustration.org/</a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxpUqnmfcCA&amp;t=14s" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxpUqnmfcCA&amp;t=14s"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxpUqn</span><span class="invisible">mfcCA&amp;t=14s</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/book_illustration/" rel="tag">#book_illustration</a></p>

<p>Archimedes Manuscript Yields Secrets under X-ray Gaze</p><p>For five days in May, the ancient collided with the ultra-modern at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), bringing brilliant, long-hidden ideas to light with brilliant X-ray light.</p><p>By Heather Rock Woods (from the archives)</p><p><a href="https://www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2005-06-16-archimedes-manuscript-yields-secrets-under-x-ray-gaze" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2005-06-16-archimedes-manuscript-yields-secrets-under-x-ray-gaze"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/20</span><span class="invisible">05-06-16-archimedes-manuscript-yields-secrets-under-x-ray-gaze</span></a></p><p>Archimedes at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=archimedes" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=archimedes"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=archimedes</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/xray_imaging/" rel="tag">#xray_imaging</a></p>

<p>This is a Knome (short for Knowing-nome) drawn by @JJiawei on wattpad as a prize for winning a writing award 😊 </p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@reading" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>reading</span></a></span> <a href="https://lemmy.world/u/books" rel="nofollow">@books</a> @fantasy <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> @worldbuilding <br> <br><a href="/tags/fanartfriday/" rel="tag">#FanArtFriday</a> <a href="/tags/fanart/" rel="tag">#FanArt</a> <br><a href="/tags/fantasycreatures/" rel="tag">#FantasyCreatures</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#Fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/creature/" rel="tag">#Creature</a><br><a href="/tags/indieauthor/" rel="tag">#IndieAuthor</a> <br><a href="/tags/specualtivefiction/" rel="tag">#SpecualtiveFiction</a> <a href="/tags/fantasybooks/" rel="tag">#FantasyBooks</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#Fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/worldbuilding/" rel="tag">#WorldBuilding</a> <a href="/tags/satire/" rel="tag">#Satire</a> <a href="/tags/humor/" rel="tag">#Humor</a> <a href="/tags/humour/" rel="tag">#Humour</a> <a href="/tags/comedy/" rel="tag">#Comedy</a><br><a href="/tags/book/" rel="tag">#Book</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/novel/" rel="tag">#Novel</a> <a href="/tags/novels/" rel="tag">#Novels</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/bookwyrm/" rel="tag">#Bookwyrm</a><br><a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#Reading</a> <a href="/tags/readers/" rel="tag">#Readers</a> <a href="/tags/readersofmastodon/" rel="tag">#ReadersOfMastodon</a> <a href="/tags/readingcommunity/" rel="tag">#ReadingCommunity</a></p>

How a playful literary hoax illuminates Classical queerness <small class="notice" x-post-type-data="None"> Takahe has limited support for this type: <a href="https://lemmy.ml/post/41453051">See Original Page</a> </small>

Kafka Inc. <small class="notice" x-post-type-data="None"> Takahe has limited support for this type: <a href="https://lemmy.ml/post/41453207">See Original Page</a> </small>

<p>How Colette Was Inspired By Her Many Cats</p><p>Susannah Fullerton on the French Writer’s Feline Muses</p><p><a href="https://lithub.com/how-colette-was-inspired-by-her-many-cats/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lithub.com/how-colette-was-inspired-by-her-many-cats/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lithub.com/how-colette-was-ins</span><span class="invisible">pired-by-her-many-cats/</span></a></p><p>Books by Colette at PG:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2065" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2065"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/2065</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/animals/" rel="tag">#animals</a></p>

<p>📚 Learn A Lot While You Sit On The Pot by: Jack. Haynes</p><p>On average, humans will spend 92 days sitting on the toilet over their lifetime. To put this in perspective, that&#x27;s about one-third of a year in the bathroom relieving yourself. That&#x27;s where LEARN A LOT WHILE YOU SIT ON THE POT comes in. Since the average time spent on t...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/learn-a-lot-while-you-sit-on-the-pot" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/learn-a-lot-while-you-sit-on-the-pot"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/learn-a-lo</span><span class="invisible">t-while-you-sit-on-the-pot</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/libraries/" rel="tag">#libraries</a> <a href="/tags/humor/" rel="tag">#humor</a> <a href="/tags/form/" rel="tag">#form</a> <a href="/tags/triviareference/" rel="tag">#triviareference</a> <a href="/tags/trivia/" rel="tag">#trivia</a></p>

<p>The Season of Edgar Allan Poe</p><p>Here, we revisit the first publication of his poetic masterpiece, &quot;The Raven&quot; and the tragic circumstances that led to him writing it.</p><p><a href="https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2024/10/the-season-of-edgar-allan-poe-autumn-halloween-and-the-falling-darkness/?loclr=ealocb" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="blogs.loc.gov/loc/2024/10/the-season-of-edgar-allan-poe-autumn-halloween-and-the-falling-darkness/?loclr=ealocb"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blogs.loc.gov/loc/2024/10/the-</span><span class="invisible">season-of-edgar-allan-poe-autumn-halloween-and-the-falling-darkness/?loclr=ealocb</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>

Inheritance of Magic – Plans for 2026 | Benedict Jacka <small class="notice" x-post-type-data="None"> Takahe has limited support for this type: <a href="https://discuss.online/post/33574011">See Original Page</a> </small>

<p>In November 1848.</p><p>William Makepeace Thackeray&#x27;s novel The History of Pendennis begins its serial publication. The publication was paused for 3 months following the author’s illness after the September 1849 part.</p><p>The History of Pendennis at PG:<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/7265" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/7265</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>New <a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#BookReview</a> on my <a href="/tags/blog/" rel="tag">#blog</a>: &quot;The Ferengi Rules of Acquisition.&quot; <br><a href="https://itinerantlibrarian.blogspot.com/2025/12/book-review-ferengi-rules-of-acquisition.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="itinerantlibrarian.blogspot.com/2025/12/book-review-ferengi-rules-of-acquisition.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">itinerantlibrarian.blogspot.co</span><span class="invisible">m/2025/12/book-review-ferengi-rules-of-acquisition.html</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/itinerantlibrarian/" rel="tag">#ItinerantLibrarian</a> <a href="/tags/reviews/" rel="tag">#reviews</a> <a href="/tags/startrek/" rel="tag">#StarTrek</a> <a href="/tags/deepspacenine/" rel="tag">#DeepSpaceNine</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <br>💙📚<br>🪐📚</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>

<p>New <a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#BookReview</a> on my <a href="/tags/blog/" rel="tag">#blog</a>: &quot;Alchemy and Mysticism: the Hermetic Museum.&quot; <br><a href="https://itinerantlibrarian.blogspot.com/2025/12/book-review-alchemy-and-mysticism.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="itinerantlibrarian.blogspot.com/2025/12/book-review-alchemy-and-mysticism.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">itinerantlibrarian.blogspot.co</span><span class="invisible">m/2025/12/book-review-alchemy-and-mysticism.html</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/itinerantlibrarian/" rel="tag">#ItinerantLibrarian</a> <a href="/tags/reviews/" rel="tag">#reviews</a> <a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#art</a> <a href="/tags/hermeticism/" rel="tag">#hermeticism</a> <a href="/tags/mysticism/" rel="tag">#mysticism</a> <a href="/tags/occult/" rel="tag">#occult</a> <a href="/tags/esoterica/" rel="tag">#esoterica</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <br>💙📚</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>

<p>“To Eat This Big Universe as Her Oyster”</p><p>Margaret Fuller and the First Major Work of American Feminism</p><p>By Randall Fuller via <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@publicdomainrev" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>publicdomainrev</span></a></span><br><a href="https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/margaret-fuller-and-the-first-major-work-of-american-feminism/?utm_source=newsletter" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="publicdomainreview.org/essay/margaret-fuller-and-the-first-major-work-of-american-feminism/?utm_source=newsletter"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">publicdomainreview.org/essay/m</span><span class="invisible">argaret-fuller-and-the-first-major-work-of-american-feminism/?utm_source=newsletter</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>I&#x27;ve used a variety of digital tools for keeping track of owned and read books over the years; LibraryThing, GoodReads, The Story Graph, Calibre etc, but while many of them are excellent I&#x27;ve often been left wanting or concerned about data gathering and privacy. <br>So I&#x27;m seriously considering setting up a physical catalogue. One with index cards, possibly combined with a journal.<br>It&#x27;s flexible, low-tech (I don&#x27;t need more hours in front of a screen) and nostalgic.</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#Reading</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>

Two Years After Cormac McCarthy’s Death, Rare Access to His Personal Library Reveals the Man Behind the Myth <small class="notice" x-post-type-data="None"> Takahe has limited support for this type: <a href="https://reddthat.com/post/56933137">See Original Page</a> </small>