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<p>German scholar Johann Albert Fabricius was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1668.</p><p>He produced several significant bibliographies, such as Bibliotheca Graeca, Bibliotheca Latina, Bibliotheca Ecclesiastica, and Bibliotheca Latina mediae et infimae aetatis.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Albert_Fabricius" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Albert_Fabricius"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_A</span><span class="invisible">lbert_Fabricius</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>

<p>The debut of a dramatic duo</p><p>Moss Hart wrote the first draft of Once in a Lifetime, a comedy about Hollywood&#x27;s transition to &quot;talkies&quot;, as a 25-year-old unknown.<br> <br>By John Mark Ockerbloom</p><p><a href="https://everybodyslibraries.com/2025/12/24/the-debut-of-a-dramatic-duo/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="everybodyslibraries.com/2025/12/24/the-debut-of-a-dramatic-duo/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">everybodyslibraries.com/2025/1</span><span class="invisible">2/24/the-debut-of-a-dramatic-duo/</span></a></p><p>More information about it:<br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_in_a_Lifetime_(play)" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_in_a_Lifetime_(play)"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_in_</span><span class="invisible">a_Lifetime_(play)</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/publicdomaindaycountdown/" rel="tag">#publicDomainDayCountdown</a></p>

<p>Hey Fedi I recommend books at the end of all my blog posts but I would love to recommend some more Fedi authors. Put your DRM Free link below if you don’t have an audiobook link. I listen to audiobooks exclusively and only get DRM free Ebooks. If you have audiobooks, put them in the replies. <a href="/tags/author/" rel="tag">#Author</a> <a href="/tags/writer/" rel="tag">#Writer</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</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>

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<p>Favorite quotes from favorite books, </p><p>&quot;In a war the most dangerous thing is to understand the enemy. To understand is to forgive.&quot;<br>― Sergei Lukyanenko, Night Watch</p><p><a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#Fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/quotes/" rel="tag">#quotes</a> 📚💙 @bookstodon@a.gup.pe <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> <a href="/tags/fantasybooks/" rel="tag">#FantasyBooks</a></p>

<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>How Did Guy Fawkes Influence Shakespeare?</p><p>As a royally appointed playwright, Shakespeare was deeply affected by the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, as is clear in the writing of the great tragedy Macbeth less than a year later.</p><p><a href="https://www.thecollector.com/how-did-guy-fawkes-influence-shakespeare/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.thecollector.com/how-did-guy-fawkes-influence-shakespeare/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.thecollector.com/how-did-g</span><span class="invisible">uy-fawkes-influence-shakespeare/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</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><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1675.</p><p>Leibniz makes the first use of the long s (∫) as a symbol of the integral in calculus. He adapted the integral symbol, ∫, from the letter ſ (long s), standing for summa (written as ſumma; Latin for &quot;sum&quot; or &quot;total&quot;).</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/7168" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/7168"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/7168</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/mathematics/" rel="tag">#mathematics</a></p>

<p>Want a quick scifi read with light romance, a lot of chosen family vibes, and a bunch of characters you&#x27;ll want to read more about? Of course you do! <br>(Or maybe someone you know wants it.)</p><p>This 2--in-1 tale starts with a summer fling in future San Francisco that ends in a HFN, then picks up later for the HEA after more drama.</p><p>Discounted &amp; DRM-free ebook here: <a href="https://kmherkes.com/the-bookshop1/p/weaving-in-the-ends-ebook1" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="kmherkes.com/the-bookshop1/p/weaving-in-the-ends-ebook1"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">kmherkes.com/the-bookshop1/p/w</span><span class="invisible">eaving-in-the-ends-ebook1</span></a></p><p>Print, audio &amp; ebooks at bookshops online &amp; off: <br><a href="https://books2read.com/WeavingInTheEnds" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="books2read.com/WeavingInTheEnds"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">books2read.com/WeavingInTheEnd</span><span class="invisible">s</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/romance/" rel="tag">#Romance</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#SciFi</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>O come, let all 4,850 of us adore him</p><p>In 1925 the Associated Glee Clubs of America put on a concert like no other. 15 choral groups, with over 850 singers in all, came together in New York&#x27;s Metropolitan Opera House to sing a program broadcast on radio across America.<br> <br>By John Mark Ockerbloom</p><p><a href="https://everybodyslibraries.com/2025/12/25/o-come-let-all-4850-of-us-adore-him/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="everybodyslibraries.com/2025/12/25/o-come-let-all-4850-of-us-adore-him/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">everybodyslibraries.com/2025/1</span><span class="invisible">2/25/o-come-let-all-4850-of-us-adore-him/</span></a></p><p>About Adeste Fideles:<br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Come,_All_Ye_Faithful" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Come,_All_Ye_Faithful"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Come,_</span><span class="invisible">All_Ye_Faithful</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/music/" rel="tag">#music</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>Book Review: Making History by K. J. Parker<br>Another novella set in Parker&#x27;s mainline secondary universe, about a group of academics tasked with a seemingly impossible task by a tyrant. <br>@princejvstin.com has our Boxing Day review<br><a href="http://www.nerds-feather.com/2025/12/book-review-making-history-by-k-j-parker.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.nerds-feather.com/2025/12/book-review-making-history-by-k-j-parker.html"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.nerds-feather.com/2025/12/</span><span class="invisible">book-review-making-history-by-k-j-parker.html</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/review/" rel="tag">#review</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> @bookstodon</p>

<p>A Review of A Happy Christmas Ceilidh: <a href="https://lydiaschoch.com/a-happy-christmas-ceilidh-by-zoe-tasia/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lydiaschoch.com/a-happy-christmas-ceilidh-by-zoe-tasia/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lydiaschoch.com/a-happy-christ</span><span class="invisible">mas-ceilidh-by-zoe-tasia/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#BookReview</a> <a href="/tags/christmas/" rel="tag">#Christmas</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>

How a playful literary hoax illuminates Classical queerness

<p>50% off @ <a href="/tags/smashwords/" rel="tag">#Smashwords</a>: <a href="https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1604529" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.smashwords.com/books/view/1604529"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.smashwords.com/books/view/</span><span class="invisible">1604529</span></a></p><p>On a world long thought to have no moon, its sudden appearance inspires wonder and terror. Hasty research links it to catastrophe and the so-called ‘Harbingers of Doom’, creatures that harvest souls. Can everyone survive or will they become part of the dark harvest?</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>

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<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><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1938.</p><p>Orson Welles broadcasts a radio adaptation of H. G. Wells&#x27;s The War of the Worlds, causing a massive panic in some of the audience in the United States.</p><p>The War of the Worlds at PG:<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/36" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/36</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</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>Becoming Beatrice</p><p>Dante adored her so much that he cast her as his guide in the Divine Comedy. But who was Beatrice Portinari?</p><p>By: Emily Zarevich </p><p><a href="https://daily.jstor.org/becoming-beatrice/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="daily.jstor.org/becoming-beatrice/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">daily.jstor.org/becoming-beatr</span><span class="invisible">ice/</span></a></p><p>Divine Comedy at PG<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1004" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1004</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>