<p>Christiaan Huygens and the Scientific Secrets of Saturn</p><p>Seventeenth-century science was so competitive that Christiaan Huygens used a cipher to conceal his Saturn observations when sharing them with interlocutors.</p><p>By: Danny Robb </p><p><a href="https://daily.jstor.org/christiaan-huygens-and-the-scientific-secrets-of-saturn/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="daily.jstor.org/christiaan-huygens-and-the-scientific-secrets-of-saturn/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">daily.jstor.org/christiaan-huy</span><span class="invisible">gens-and-the-scientific-secrets-of-saturn/</span></a></p><p>Christiaan Huygens at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/5648" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/5648"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/5648</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#Science</a> <a href="/tags/astronomy/" rel="tag">#Astronomy</a></p>
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<p>Reading deeper into Virginia Woolf’s vicious diary entry</p><p>Maggie Humm says the author’s recollection of encountering a group of learning-disabled people is surely a defence mechanism and projection</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jul/27/reading-deeper-into-virginia-woolfs-vicious-diary-entry" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jul/27/reading-deeper-into-virginia-woolfs-vicious-diary-entry"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.theguardian.com/books/2025</span><span class="invisible">/jul/27/reading-deeper-into-virginia-woolfs-vicious-diary-entry</span></a></p><p>Virginia Woolf at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/89" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/89"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/89</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#Literature</a> <a href="/tags/biography/" rel="tag">#Biography</a></p>
<p>Okay Mastodon, do your thing!</p><p>I'm looking for recommendations for audiobooks 😁 </p><p>Preferably simple enough that I can keep up while doing other stuff at the same time, but not so simple that I get bored,</p><p>The last series was Skullduggery Pleasant, if that helps.</p><p><a href="https://lemmy.world/u/books" rel="nofollow">@books</a> <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> <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/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><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/fiction/" rel="tag">#Fiction</a> <br><a href="/tags/recommendation/" rel="tag">#Recommendation</a> <a href="/tags/bookrecommendation/" rel="tag">#Bookrecommendation</a> <a href="/tags/review/" rel="tag">#Review</a> <a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#Bookreview</a><br><a href="/tags/bookwyrm/" rel="tag">#Bookwyrm</a> <a href="/tags/bookworm/" rel="tag">#Bookworm</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/booklove/" rel="tag">#BookLove</a> <a href="/tags/fantasybooks/" rel="tag">#FantasyBooks</a></p>
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<p>" <a href="/tags/tennessee/" rel="tag">#Tennessee</a> <a href="/tags/library/" rel="tag">#library</a> director ousted after refusing to remove <a href="/tags/lgbtq/" rel="tag">#LGBTQ</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a>"</p><p>There are 2 types of people</p><p>1. People who get sad at this story, do nothing, and then speak about how worse is sure to happen while offering no <a href="/tags/resistance/" rel="tag">#resistance</a></p><p>2. People who get mad at this story, show up, agitate, make their voices heard. And punish those responsible with a <a href="/tags/vote/" rel="tag">#vote</a>. And demand their new reps put in safeguards</p><p>Be the second kind of person</p><p><a href="/tags/cynicism/" rel="tag">#Cynicism</a> is acceptance of <a href="/tags/fascism/" rel="tag">#fascism</a></p><p><a href="https://wpln.org/post/tennessee-library-director-ousted-after-refusing-to-remove-lgbtq-books/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="wpln.org/post/tennessee-library-director-ousted-after-refusing-to-remove-lgbtq-books/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">wpln.org/post/tennessee-librar</span><span class="invisible">y-director-ousted-after-refusing-to-remove-lgbtq-books/</span></a></p>
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<p>Smashwords - Free Scifi Summer - My short stories are FREE from Smashwords July 1-31, 2025! Grab a free story from any of the eighteen below:</p><p><a href="https://inkican.com/smashwords-free-scifi-summer/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="inkican.com/smashwords-free-scifi-summer/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">inkican.com/smashwords-free-sc</span><span class="invisible">ifi-summer/</span></a> </p><p><a href="/tags/freestuff/" rel="tag">#freestuff</a> <a href="/tags/free/" rel="tag">#free</a> <a href="/tags/freebies/" rel="tag">#freebies</a> <a href="/tags/giveaway/" rel="tag">#giveaway</a> <a href="/tags/frugal/" rel="tag">#frugal</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#Sciencefiction</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/booksforkids/" rel="tag">#booksforkids</a></p>
<p>📚 Misery by: Stephen King</p><p>Bestselling novelist Paul Sheldon thinks he’s finally free of Misery Chastain. In a controversial career move, he’s just killed off the popular protagonist of his beloved romance series in favor of expanding his creative horizons. But such a change doesn’t come without consequences. </p><p>After a near-fatal car accident in rural Colorado leaves his body broken, Pau...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/misery" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>bookblabla.com/book/misery</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></p>
<p>For some time I had been wondering what was up with one of my favorite authors - it had been so long since I last heard any news. <br>So I went to her website - <a href="https://www.otherscribbles.com/news/2025/4/25/monk-and-robot-omnibus-and-some-other-tidbits" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.otherscribbles.com/news/2025/4/25/monk-and-robot-omnibus-and-some-other-tidbits"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.otherscribbles.com/news/20</span><span class="invisible">25/4/25/monk-and-robot-omnibus-and-some-other-tidbits</span></a> - and read the most delightful news: she's about to publish a new book! This post was from April 25, so it shouldn't be long now🤞🤞🤞</p><p><a href="/tags/beckychambers/" rel="tag">#BeckyChambers</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> @bookstodon <a href="/tags/boeken/" rel="tag">#Boeken</a> @boeken <a href="/tags/solarpunk/" rel="tag">#SolarPunk</a></p>
<p>Hear Albert Camus’ Grateful Letter to His Teacher After Winning the Nobel Prize</p><p>In 1924, two decades before the publication of The Stranger, author Albert Camus was a boy growing up in poverty in Algeria. Noticing his potential, a teacher named Louis Germain took him under his wing, even giving him free lessons to help him secure a scholarship.</p><p>By Regina Sienra </p><p><a href="https://mymodernmet.com/albert-camus-letter-teacher/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="mymodernmet.com/albert-camus-letter-teacher/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mymodernmet.com/albert-camus-l</span><span class="invisible">etter-teacher/</span></a>?</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#Literature</a></p>
<p>In <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a>: It’s typical of José Skinner’s approach that his main protagonist is not some self-assured reflection of his own qualifications, but rather Quigley, a dopey gringo vacillating between colonial-gaze fascination and fear of a world he doesn’t understand. <a href="https://www.texasobserver.org/the-search-committee-border-literary-canon/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.texasobserver.org/the-search-committee-border-literary-canon/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.texasobserver.org/the-sear</span><span class="invisible">ch-committee-border-literary-canon/</span></a> </p><p><a href="/tags/southtexas/" rel="tag">#SouthTexas</a> <a href="/tags/border/" rel="tag">#border</a> <a href="/tags/culture/" rel="tag">#culture</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/education/" rel="tag">#education</a></p>
<p>16 to go in the next 5 months!</p><p><a href="https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/honzin" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="app.thestorygraph.com/profile/honzin"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">app.thestorygraph.com/profile/</span><span class="invisible">honzin</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/amreading/" rel="tag">#amreading</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/kindle/" rel="tag">#kindle</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/booktoot/" rel="tag">#booktoot</a> <a href="/tags/book/" rel="tag">#book</a> <a href="/tags/knihy/" rel="tag">#knihy</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/ebook/" rel="tag">#ebook</a> @bookstodon @knihy</p>
<p>Neil deGrasse Tyson Lists 8 (Free) Books Every Intelligent Person Should Read</p><p><a href="https://www.openculture.com/2025/07/neil-degrasse-tyson-lists-8-free-books-every-intelligent-person-should-read.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.openculture.com/2025/07/neil-degrasse-tyson-lists-8-free-books-every-intelligent-person-should-read.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.openculture.com/2025/07/ne</span><span class="invisible">il-degrasse-tyson-lists-8-free-books-every-intelligent-person-should-read.html</span></a></p><p>Many of these are at PG.</p><p>Illustration from Gulliver Travels at PG </p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/17157/pg17157-images.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/17157/pg17157-images.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1</span><span class="invisible">7157/pg17157-images.html</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
<p>My <a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#bookreview</a> is brief/won't spoil, to spread good, great, and spectacular <a href="/tags/horror/" rel="tag">#horror</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> far and wide.</p><p>THE WRITHING, VERDANT END compiles 6 uniquely intense, memorable stories of eco-horror. Corey Farrenkopf, Tiffany Morris, and Eric Raglin all contribute eerie, haunting tales where human nature and the natural world clash & fight for survival. Lush writing about terrifying, strange nature(s). (Cursed Morsels)</p><p><a href="/tags/book/" rel="tag">#book</a> <a href="/tags/review/" rel="tag">#review</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a><br><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/mothersuspiriareview/" rel="tag">#mothersuspiriareview</a> <a href="/tags/msreview/" rel="tag">#MSReview</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://toot.community/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon@toot.community</span></a></span></p>
<p>This month's Distributed Proofreaders blog delves into the newly uploaded "Newton's Principia." </p><p>"In it, Newton expounds, with mathematical proof, what is now the bedrock of modern physics: his groundbreaking laws of motion and universal gravitation, and his explanations of the motion of planets, moons, comets, tides, fluids, and other physical phenomena."</p><p><a href="https://blog.pgdp.net/2025/08/01/newtons-principia/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="blog.pgdp.net/2025/08/01/newtons-principia/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.pgdp.net/2025/08/01/newto</span><span class="invisible">ns-principia/</span></a></p><p>Newton's Principia at PG:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76404" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76404</a></p><p><a href="/tags/physics/" rel="tag">#physics</a> <a href="/tags/mathematics/" rel="tag">#mathematics</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/dp/" rel="tag">#dp</a></p>
<p>I’m a big fan of Helen’s work. Her stories are clever, atmospheric and often scare-filled, which is already a powerful combination. And then when you add in her exquisitely realistic and researched sense of place, the terror only increases exponentially. </p><p>There aren’t too many great writers furthering the pleasing terror agenda of M. R. James, and making it their own, but Helen’s surely one of them—and one of the best. </p><p><a href="/tags/supernaturalhorror/" rel="tag">#SupernaturalHorror</a> <a href="/tags/ghoststories/" rel="tag">#GhostStories</a> <a href="/tags/horror/" rel="tag">#Horror</a> <a href="/tags/supernaturalliterature/" rel="tag">#SupernaturalLiterature</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/womeninhorror/" rel="tag">#WomenInHorror</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> <a href="https://mas.to/@helengrantsays/116277066752625876" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="mas.to/@helengrantsays/116277066752625876"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mas.to/@helengrantsays/1162770</span><span class="invisible">66752625876</span></a></p>
<p>6 Authors Who Hated Their Most Popular Books</p><p>From Agatha Christie to Franz Kafka, these authors were not fans of their most beloved creations.</p><p>By Paul Anthony Jones</p><p><a href="https://www.mentalfloss.com/entertainment/literature/authors-who-hated-their-most-popular-books" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.mentalfloss.com/entertainment/literature/authors-who-hated-their-most-popular-books"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.mentalfloss.com/entertainm</span><span class="invisible">ent/literature/authors-who-hated-their-most-popular-books</span></a></p><p>Louisa May Alcott, Agatha Christie, Conan Doyle, Kafka, MIlne at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/102" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/102"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/102</span></a><br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/451" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/451"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/451</span></a><br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/69" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/69"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/69</span></a><br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1735" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1735"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/1735</span></a><br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/730" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/730"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/730</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
<p>Collecting The Most Beautiful Books<br>22 Aug, Mount Stuart House, Rothesay – £8.50–£11</p><p>Kelsey Jackson Williams will explore armorial bookbindings in the Bute Collection & tell how aristocratic pride, the bookbinders' art, & subsequent tastes in collecting came together to form an exceptional but unknown assemblage of book-art in the Mount Stuart libraries.</p><p><a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/collecting-the-most-beautiful-books-august-talk-tickets-1529153030879" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/collecting-the-most-beautiful-books-august-talk-tickets-1529153030879"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/collect</span><span class="invisible">ing-the-most-beautiful-books-august-talk-tickets-1529153030879</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bookbinding/" rel="tag">#bookbinding</a> <a href="/tags/bookhistory/" rel="tag">#bookhistory</a> <a href="/tags/bute/" rel="tag">#Bute</a> <a href="/tags/rothesay/" rel="tag">#Rothesay</a></p>
<p>Nietzsche vs. Schopenhauer’s Views on Life, Suffering, and the Will</p><p>Is suffering something that hinders us, or helps us along? Schopenhauer looks for a way out, while Nietzsche insists we make good use of it.</p><p>by Viktoriya Sus</p><p><a href="https://www.thecollector.com/nietzsche-vs-shopenhauer/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.thecollector.com/nietzsche-vs-shopenhauer/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.thecollector.com/nietzsche</span><span class="invisible">-vs-shopenhauer/</span></a></p><p>Schopenhauer and Nietzsche at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/3648" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/3648"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/3648</span></a><br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/779" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/779"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/779</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/philosophy/" rel="tag">#Philosophy</a></p>
Warsaw Treaty New Initiatives - Documents of the Meeting of the Political Consultative Committee of the Member States of the Warsaw Treaty Organization
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40 Years of the Life and Struggle of the Jordanian Communist Party : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
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