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<p>English novelist and poet Charlotte Brontë died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1855.</p><p>She is best known for her novel Jane Eyre, which she published under the gender neutral pen name Currer Bell. Along with &quot;Jane Eyre,&quot; her other notable works include &quot;Shirley&quot; (1849) and &quot;Villette&quot; (1853). Brontë&#x27;s writing is celebrated for its exploration of social issues, particularly the role of women in Victorian society.</p><p>Books by Charlotte Brontë at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/408" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/408"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/408</span></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>

Ughhhh, et tu calibre?<br><p>New features<br>- Allow asking AI questions about any book in your calibre library. Right click the &quot;View&quot; button and choose &quot;Discuss selected book(s) with AI&quot;<br>- AI: Allow asking AI what book to read next by right clicking on a book and using the &quot;Similar books&quot; menu<br>- AI: Add a new backend for &quot;LM Studio&quot; which allows running various AI models locally<br></p><a href="https://calibre-ebook.com/whats-new" rel="nofollow">Release: 8.16.1 04 Dec, 2025</a>; or <a href="https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/blob/418843e5ca5a91e3023176e4bdc0c3aec9e2eb8c/Changelog.txt#L30" rel="nofollow">here on their GitHub</a><br><br>Calibre is one of those pieces of software that I use from time to time but don&#x27;t follow closely. I wasn&#x27;t aware they&#x27;d been sipping from the poisoned chalice.<br><br><a href="/tags/calibre/" rel="tag">#calibre</a> <a href="/tags/foss/" rel="tag">#FOSS</a> <a href="/tags/opensource/" rel="tag">#OpenSource</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/ebooks/" rel="tag">#eBooks</a> <a href="/tags/ebookmanager/" rel="tag">#eBookManager</a> <a href="/tags/aipoisoning/" rel="tag">#AIPoisoning</a> <a href="/tags/informationoilspill/" rel="tag">#InformationOilSpill</a><br>

<p>Books I Read on Someone’s Recommendation: <a href="https://lydiaschoch.com/wednesday-weekly-blogging-challenge-books-i-read-on-someones-recommendation-2/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lydiaschoch.com/wednesday-weekly-blogging-challenge-books-i-read-on-someones-recommendation-2/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lydiaschoch.com/wednesday-week</span><span class="invisible">ly-blogging-challenge-books-i-read-on-someones-recommendation-2/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/wednesdayweeklybloggingchallenge/" rel="tag">#WednesdayWeeklyBloggingChallenge</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>📚 Exiles by: Mason Coile</p><p>The human crew sent to prepare the first colony on Mars arrives to find the new base half-destroyed and the three robots sent to set it up in disarray—the machines have formed alliances, chosen their own names, and picked up some disturbing beliefs. Each must be interrogated. But one of them is...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/exiles" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>bookblabla.com/book/exiles</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/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/horrorfiction/" rel="tag">#horrorfiction</a> <a href="/tags/thrillers/" rel="tag">#thrillers</a> <a href="/tags/psychologicalfiction/" rel="tag">#psychologicalfiction</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a></p>

<p>The Importance of Being Idle</p><p>What Paul Lafargue taught us about work</p><p>By Robert Zaretsky </p><p><a href="https://theamericanscholar.org/the-importance-of-being-idle/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="theamericanscholar.org/the-importance-of-being-idle/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theamericanscholar.org/the-imp</span><span class="invisible">ortance-of-being-idle/</span></a></p><p>Lafarque at PG:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/47147" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/47147"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/47147</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a></p>

<p>finished reading <a href="https://eggplant.place/search?r=1&amp;q=https://reviewdb.app/book/1lRzL8BnoQxMULGEIWX5xo" rel="nofollow">The Lathe of Heaven</a> 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑 <br>by Ursula Le Guin.</p><p>A man&#x27;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 &amp; creativity, is it still utopia?</p><p><a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#BookReview</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/sff/" rel="tag">#SFF</a> <a href="/tags/ursulaleguin/" rel="tag">#UrsulaLeGuin</a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://aus.social/@wildwoila" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>WildWoila</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://wyrms.de/user/wildwoila" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>wildwoila@wyrms.de</span></a></span><br></p>

<p>This week&#x27;s <a href="/tags/newbooks/" rel="tag">#NewBooks</a> at the library: Some classic literature that I bought second-hand.<br>- A Plague of Sheep: Environmental Consequences of the Conquest of Mexico, published by Cambridge University Press (which was removed from the holdings of the University of Plymouth Charles Seale-Hayne Library just down the road from me!)<br>- Carl Safina&#x27;s classic Song for the Blue Ocean: Encounters Along the World&#x27;s Coasts and Beneath the Seas, published by Henry Holt<br>- and Extinctions in Near Time: Causes, Contexts, and Consequences, published by Springer.</p><p><a href="/tags/extinction/" rel="tag">#Extinction</a> <a href="/tags/biodiversity/" rel="tag">#Biodiversity</a> <a href="/tags/palaeontology/" rel="tag">#Palaeontology</a> <a href="/tags/paleontology/" rel="tag">#Paleontology</a> <a href="/tags/naturalhistory/" rel="tag">#NaturalHistory</a> <a href="/tags/naturewriting/" rel="tag">#NatureWriting</a> <a href="/tags/environmentalhistory/" rel="tag">#EnvironmentalHistory</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/scicomm/" rel="tag">#Scicomm</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</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>

<p>📚 Beartown by: Fredrik Backman</p><p>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...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/beartown" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>bookblabla.com/book/beartown</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/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/literaryfiction/" rel="tag">#literaryfiction</a> <a href="/tags/sportsfiction/" rel="tag">#sportsfiction</a></p>

<p>French philosopher, an influential early socialist thinker, and one of the founders of utopian socialism Charles Fourier was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1772.</p><p>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.</p><p>About Fourier at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=charles+fourier&amp;submit_search=Go%21" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=charles+fourier&amp;submit_search=Go%21"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=charles+fourier&amp;submit_search=Go%21</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/philosophy/" rel="tag">#philosophy</a></p>

<p>📚 The West Passage by: Jared Pechaček</p><p>When the Guardian of the West Passage died in her bed, the women of Grey Tower fed her to the crows and went back to their chores. No successor was named as Guardian, no one took up the fallen blade; the West Passage went unguarded.</p><p>Now, snow blankets Grey in the height of summer, foretelling the coming of th...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/the-west-passage" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/the-west-passage"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/the-west-p</span><span class="invisible">assage</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/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/actionadventure/" rel="tag">#actionadventure</a></p>

<p>&quot;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.&quot;</p><p>Michael Faraday <a href="/tags/botd/" rel="tag">#BOTD</a> in 1791.</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/5541" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/5541"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/5541</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a></p>

<p>I&#x27;m trying to decide who to read next. I&#x27;ve got a Joshua Whitehead novel for some Indigiqueer representation. I&#x27;ve also recently acquired some Andrea Gibson poetry, Charlie Jane Anders new book, and an older Alice Hoffman novel.</p><p>Choices, choices. Whatcha reading these days? And are you having any concentration issues? </p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</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>

<p>Hey Leanpub authors! There&#x27;s still time to enter our 💸 GlobalAuthor Max Grand Prize Giveaway! </p><p>Enter Before September 17, 2025 For Your Chance To Win (A $4,999 Value) </p><p>Learn more here: <a href="https://leanpub.com/blog/globalauthor-max-grand-prize-giveaway-september-17-2025-2" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="leanpub.com/blog/globalauthor-max-grand-prize-giveaway-september-17-2025-2"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">leanpub.com/blog/globalauthor-</span><span class="invisible">max-grand-prize-giveaway-september-17-2025-2</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/author/" rel="tag">#author</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/selfpublishing/" rel="tag">#selfpublishing</a></p>

<p>Mary Wollstonecraft, The Woman Who Laid the Foundation for Feminism</p><p>Think 18th-century feminism must be outdated? Think again—there is still so much to learn from the life and writing of Mary Wollstonecraft.</p><p>by Dr. Victoria C. Roskams</p><p><a href="https://www.thecollector.com/mary-wollstonecraft-woman-laid-foundation-feminism/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.thecollector.com/mary-wollstonecraft-woman-laid-foundation-feminism/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.thecollector.com/mary-woll</span><span class="invisible">stonecraft-woman-laid-foundation-feminism/</span></a></p><p>Wollstonecraft at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/61" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/61"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/61</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>📚 Lights Out by: Navessa Allen</p><p>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.</p><p>Trauma nurse Aly Cappellucci doesn&#x27;t need any more kinks. She likes the one she&#x27;s landed on just fine. To her, nothing could top the masked men she follows online. ...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/lights-out" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>bookblabla.com/book/lights-out</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/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/romance/" rel="tag">#romance</a> <a href="/tags/suspensefiction/" rel="tag">#suspensefiction</a> <a href="/tags/humorous/" rel="tag">#humorous</a> <a href="/tags/blackhumor/" rel="tag">#blackhumor</a></p>

<p>Another great discussion w/ <a href="/tags/rosswolfe/" rel="tag">#RossWolfe</a> about his trilogy of essays critiquing the late neo-Stalinist philosopher &amp; historian <a href="/tags/domenicolosurdo/" rel="tag">#DomenicoLosurdo</a>, w/ particular focus on <a href="/tags/losurdo/" rel="tag">#Losurdo</a>&#x27;s attacks on <a href="/tags/westernmarxism/" rel="tag">#WesternMarxism</a> in his eponymously titled book. </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9QM64C1glw" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9QM64C1glw"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9QM64</span><span class="invisible">C1glw</span></a></p><p>(the trilogy is here: <br><a href="https://newintermag.com/against-losurdo/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="newintermag.com/against-losurdo/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">newintermag.com/against-losurd</span><span class="invisible">o/</span></a><br><a href="https://newintermag.com/losurdos-lies/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>newintermag.com/losurdos-lies/</a><br><a href="https://newintermag.com/revisionism-revisited/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="newintermag.com/revisionism-revisited/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">newintermag.com/revisionism-re</span><span class="invisible">visited/</span></a>)</p><p><a href="/tags/marxism/" rel="tag">#Marxism</a> <a href="/tags/frankfurtschool/" rel="tag">#FrankfurtSchool</a> <a href="/tags/socialism/" rel="tag">#socialism</a> <a href="/tags/politicaltheory/" rel="tag">#politicalTheory</a> <a href="/tags/historyofmarxism/" rel="tag">#historyOfMarxism</a> <a href="/tags/stalinism/" rel="tag">#Stalinism</a> <a href="/tags/campism/" rel="tag">#campism</a> <a href="/tags/philosophy/" rel="tag">#philosophy</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</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>

<p>Irish writer and poet who wrote under the pseudonym &quot;Æ&quot; George William Russell was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1867.</p><p>As a poet, Russell&#x27;s work often explored themes of spirituality, mysticism, nature, and the Irish landscape. One of Russell&#x27;s most famous works is &quot;The Candle of Vision&quot; (1918), a mystical autobiography in which he describes his spiritual experiences and encounters with the divine.</p><p>Books by George William Russell at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1869" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1869"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/1869</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>What Pride and Prejudice Tells Us About British History, Class, and Women’s Leisure Time</p><p>Patricia A. Matthew Explores the Historical Context of Jane Austen’s Most Famous Novel</p><p><a href="https://lithub.com/what-pride-and-prejudice-tells-us-about-british-history-class-and-womens-leisure-time/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lithub.com/what-pride-and-prejudice-tells-us-about-british-history-class-and-womens-leisure-time/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lithub.com/what-pride-and-prej</span><span class="invisible">udice-tells-us-about-british-history-class-and-womens-leisure-time/</span></a></p><p>Pride and Prejudice at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=pride+and+prejudice" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=pride+and+prejudice"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=pride+and+prejudice</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>&quot;According to two district sources, AI was used to measure instructional texts against a rubric that took into account “DEI content.” The books must be removed from all classrooms, and cannot be used as instructional resources—either as texts read in class or as choice books in classroom libraries. Though the books have received no formal challenge, they are currently awaiting further review.&quot;</p><p>&quot;Book banners have told us over and over again that they’re just trying to take books with extreme sexual content out of public schools. Classics are safe, they’ve said. We’re not removing books based on the ideas they contain, they’ve said. We knew none of that was true; Senate Bill 12 proves it.&quot;</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/writersofmastodon/" rel="tag">#writersofmastodon</a> <a href="/tags/writingcommunity/" rel="tag">#WritingCommunity</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</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><p><a href="https://franklinstrong.substack.com/p/to-kill-a-mockingbird-pulled-from" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="franklinstrong.substack.com/p/to-kill-a-mockingbird-pulled-from"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">franklinstrong.substack.com/p/</span><span class="invisible">to-kill-a-mockingbird-pulled-from</span></a></p>

<p>Children of famous writers. I wonder what influence they have on their careers.</p><p>Mary Shelley (Mary Wollstonecraft &amp; William Godwin)</p><p>Ada Lovelace (Lord Byron &amp; Lady Byron)</p><p>Alexandre Dumas fils (Alexandre Dumas père &amp; Marie-Laure-Catherine Labay)</p><p>Christina Rossetti &amp; Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Gabriele Rossetti &amp; Frances Polidori)</p><p>Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Hartley Coleridge &amp; Sara Fricker)</p><p>Anthony West (H. G. Wells &amp; Rebecca West)</p><p>Evelyn Waugh (Arthur Waugh &amp; Catherine Raban)</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>

<p>Nobody Would Edit Shakespeare, Right? Right?</p><p>by: Neely Tucker via @libraryofcongress</p><p><a href="https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2025/09/nobody-would-edit-shakespeare-right-right/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="blogs.loc.gov/loc/2025/09/nobody-would-edit-shakespeare-right-right/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blogs.loc.gov/loc/2025/09/nobo</span><span class="invisible">dy-would-edit-shakespeare-right-right/</span></a></p><p>Shakespeare at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/65" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/65"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/65</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>