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<p>In December 1891.</p><p>Thomas Hardy writes "The Son's Veto" (collected in Life'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'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>

First edition (publ. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co.)

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<p>Banned in Texas</p><p>Struggle over academic freedom in Texas state universities has a long history. Today it's often over race and gender; in the 1940s, it was over things like John Dos Passos'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>

First complete edition (1937) of the U.S.A. trilogy is a series of three novels by American writer John Dos Passos.

The cover features a bold, modernist design with strong horizontal color blocking that evokes the American flag. The layout is striking and graphic, reflecting the ambitious scope of this major American literary work.

At the top, "U.S.A." appears in large, cream-colored sans-serif letters against a black background, with periods between each letter emphasizing the acronym nature of the title.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.A._(trilogy)#/media/File:Dos_Passos_USA.jpg

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<p>Islands of the Imagination</p><p>By Livia Gershon</p><p>A short history of islands as sites of political escape and reinvention, from the myth of Atlantis to modern seasteading.</p><p><a href="https://daily.jstor.org/islands-of-the-imagination/?utm_source=mcae&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=jstordaily_04162026" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="daily.jstor.org/islands-of-the-imagination/?utm_source=mcae&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=jstordaily_04162026"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">daily.jstor.org/islands-of-the</span><span class="invisible">-imagination/?utm_source=mcae&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=jstordaily_04162026</span></a></p><p>Original article (from the archives):<br><a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/43876781?mag=islands-of-the-imagination" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.jstor.org/stable/43876781?mag=islands-of-the-imagination"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.jstor.org/stable/43876781?</span><span class="invisible">mag=islands-of-the-imagination</span></a></p><p>Atlantis at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/1523" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/1523"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje</span><span class="invisible">ct/1523</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a></p>

Terror Antiquus by L.Bakst, 1908.

The painting depicts a catastrophic flood or divine destruction of an ancient civilisation — widely interpreted as the fall of Atlantis or a mythological Mediterranean world. A goddess figure stands serenely at the centre, smiling enigmatically amid total apocalyptic chaos.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Terror_Antiquus_by_L.Bakst_(1908).jpg

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<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 "sum" or "total").</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>

Christoph Bernhard Francke - Portrait of the philosopher Leibniz (ca. 1695) Christoph Bernhard Francke - Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum.

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<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>

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<p>Science history: Sophie Germain, first woman to win France's prestigious 'Grand Mathematics Prize' is snubbed when tickets to award ceremony are 'lost in the mail' — Jan. 9, 1816</p><p>By Tia Ghose</p><p><a href="https://www.livescience.com/physics-mathematics/mathematics/science-history-sophie-germain-first-woman-to-win-frances-prestigious-grand-mathematics-prize-is-snubbed-when-tickets-to-award-ceremony-are-lost-in-the-mail-jan-9-1816" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.livescience.com/physics-mathematics/mathematics/science-history-sophie-germain-first-woman-to-win-frances-prestigious-grand-mathematics-prize-is-snubbed-when-tickets-to-award-ceremony-are-lost-in-the-mail-jan-9-1816"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.livescience.com/physics-ma</span><span class="invisible">thematics/mathematics/science-history-sophie-germain-first-woman-to-win-frances-prestigious-grand-mathematics-prize-is-snubbed-when-tickets-to-award-ceremony-are-lost-in-the-mail-jan-9-1816</span></a></p><p>More about Sophie Germain:<br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Germain" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Germain"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_G</span><span class="invisible">ermain</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/mathematics/" rel="tag">#mathematics</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/womeninstem/" rel="tag">#womeninstem</a></p>

Portrait of Sophie Germain (April 1, 1776 - June 27, 1831).

Sophie Germain is depicted with refined, classical features: a straight, elegant nose, well-defined lips, a curved chin and a graceful neck. Her hair is pulled up and back from her face, arranged in what appears to be a bun or chignon at the back of her head and it shows curls arranged in horizontal bands around the crown.

https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Germain#/media/Ficheiro:Germain.jpeg

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<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&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01KJVCCCNCPMWJ7N0E01YF4D4S&_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="daily.jstor.org/edgar-allan-poes-mechanical-imagination/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01KJVCCCNCPMWJ7N0E01YF4D4S&_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&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01KJVCCCNCPMWJ7N0E01YF4D4S&_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>

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<p>In November 1907. </p><p>While tutoring a Trieste businessman in English, James Joyce reveals that he is a writer, and his pupil, known to Joyce as Ettore Schmitz, proves to be the published novelist Italo Svevo. A literary friendship ensues.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italo_Svevo" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italo_Svevo"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italo_Sv</span><span class="invisible">evo</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

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<p>In November 1852.</p><p>Leo Tolstoy's debut novel, Childhood («Детство», Detstvo), is published under the initials L. N. in this month'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>

More details Tolstoy with his grand-children S.A and I.A Tolstoy, Kryokshino, Moscow province.

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[question] Searching for a book where a group of friends hunts people (thriller)

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<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>

Title : Les chansons de Bilitis : traduit du grec / Pierre Louÿs ; ill. de G. Barbier, gravées sur bois par F. L. Schmied
Author : Louÿs, Pierre (1870-1925). Auteur du texte
Publisher : P. Corrard (Paris)
Publication date : 1922
Contributor : Barbier, George (1882-1932). Illustrateur
Contributor : Schmied, François-Louis (1873-1941). Graveur

The illustration is presented as a decorative page or bookplate, featuring a rectangular composition with elaborate framing. The entire design is set against cream-colored paper with a sophisticated multi-layered border treatment that creates depth and visual richness.

Across the top of the black panel stretches an arbor or trellis laden with grapevines. Standing gracefully on the left side is a woman in classical Greek or Roman dress. Crouched or kneeling on the right side is a striking figure rendered entirely in coral-red or terracotta tones. In the upper portion of the black space, four white bird silhouettes are visible.

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k15164019/f23.item.texteImage#

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<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>

(Left) The cover of The Inverted Glass, by Owen Tyme.

The Background is a pink and purple nebula in space.

The foreground is largely line art, in white, with a black shadow outline.

At the center is an hourglass. The bottom has black sand, with a white figure standing in it. The top has is an inverted mirror image of the bottom, with a black figure in white sand.

The hourglass serves as the balance point for a set of scales, which hold a heart and a feather. The heart is on the left and the feather on the right. The heart is lower than the feather.

(Right) Lying in blue sand is a heart made of the same sand, full of cracks. It glows from the inside in a warm, yellow color. Over that is the following quote:

Nicole felt an extreme kind of loss, realizing she’d been stolen away from the afterlife, just before finding out if she deserved punishment or not!

“How dare you do this to me? Why?”

“I’m always in need of strong spirits and I’ve seen none stronger. You have unique talents I refuse to see go to waste.”

(Bottom) https://books2read.com/TheInvertedGlass

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<p>Leave the Internet Archive alone!</p><p>Except for book publishers, the Internet Archive has done no one any harm. But that hasn'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>

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<p>"[...] people always live for ever when there is any annuity to be paid them."</p><p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1811.</p><p>Jane Austen publishes her first novel: Sense and Sensibility at her own expense in 3 volumes, priced at 15 s., in Thomas Egerton's Military Library.</p><p><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/161" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/161</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

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<p>In November 1868.</p><p>Robert Browning's narrative poem The Ring and the Book begins four-part publication by Smith, Elder & 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>

This is the cover of The Ring and the Book, circa 1868.

2 ⁄ 7 More details First page of Robert Browning's manuscript of The Ring and the Book (1868)

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<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'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>

The earliest surviving manuscript of Adeste fideles, without attribution, attributed to John Francis Wade, dated to the 1740s.

It depicts a page from an aged music manuscript, displaying hand-copied musical notation on a staff system. The paper has a cream or beige tone characteristic of 18th-century documents, with some visible aging and wear.

The manuscript uses square notation on a four-line staff system, typical of plainchant and early sacred music notation. Black square and diamond-shaped notes are positioned on the lines and spaces, with various time values indicated by the note shapes. The music is written in what appears to be sections or verses, with multiple staves running down the page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Come,_All_Ye_Faithful#/media/File:Adeste,_fideles_(earliest_version).jpg

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<p>Victorian Illustrated Shakespeare Archive</p><p>The Victorian Illustrated Shakespeare Archive contains over 3000 illustrations from significant editions of Shakespeare'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&t=14s" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxpUqnmfcCA&t=14s"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxpUqn</span><span class="invisible">mfcCA&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>

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<p>But if I have a choice I prefer in the bath, the massage chair, the couch, and the bed in that order... 😁 </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> <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://lemmy.world/u/books" rel="nofollow">@books</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@humor" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>humor</span></a></span> @humor@lemmy.world @aiop <br> <br><a href="/tags/book/" rel="tag">#Book</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookmemes/" rel="tag">#BookMemes</a> <a href="/tags/memes/" rel="tag">#Memes</a> <a href="/tags/humor/" rel="tag">#Humor</a> <a href="/tags/humour/" rel="tag">#Humour</a><br><a href="/tags/readingmemes/" rel="tag">#ReadingMemes</a> <a href="/tags/memes/" rel="tag">#Memes</a> <a href="/tags/readallthebooks/" rel="tag">#ReadAllTheBooks</a> <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/litterature/" rel="tag">#Litterature</a> <a href="/tags/novel/" rel="tag">#Novel</a> <a href="/tags/novels/" rel="tag">#Novels</a> <a href="/tags/bookshelf/" rel="tag">#Bookshelf</a> <a href="/tags/mastobooks/" rel="tag">#Mastobooks</a> <a href="/tags/booksofmastodon/" rel="tag">#BooksofMastodon</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/bookworm/" rel="tag">#Bookworm</a> <a href="/tags/bookwyrm/" rel="tag">#Bookwyrm</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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I WILL READ BOOKS WITH A GOAT.
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<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>

One page of Archimedes Palimpsest, On Floating Bodies.

It despicts an opened ancient manuscript with two facing pages. The parchment is heavily aged, displaying a mottled yellowish-brown, golden-tan coloration with significant staining, discoloration, and deterioration throughout. The edges are darkened and worn, indicating centuries of age and handling.

This is a palimpsest, meaning the parchment was recycled—the original text was partially scraped off and written over with new content. You can see layers of text at different angles and in different states of visibility, which is characteristic of such manuscripts. The underlying Archimedes text runs in one direction, while later overwritten religious texts (Byzantine prayer book) run perpendicular to it.

The pages contain dense columns of Greek text written in dark brown or black ink. On the left page, there are visible geometric diagrams—line drawings showing mathematical figures and proofs typical of Archimedes' work on geometry and physics. These diagrams include straight lines, angles, and geometric constructions that would have accompanied his mathematical reasoning about floating bodies and buoyancy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes_Palimpsest#/media/File:Archimedes_Palimpsest.jpg

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<p>Book Review: Making History by K. J. Parker<br>Another novella set in Parker'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>

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<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>

Drawing of a furry faced, spindly creature with big ears and sack like clothing and in a tool/book belt. Because everyone should have a book belt for emergency books :)

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<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>

Book cover for A Happy Christmas Ceilidh by Zoe Tasia. Image on cover is a drawing of a snowperson that’s doing a handstand outside in the snow beside some fir trees. Its stick arms are leaning down to touch the snow and its scarf is falling down onto the snow.

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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>

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<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>

(Left) The cover of dark moon, by Owen Tyme, illustrated by Ryan Johnson.

In the foreground, a redheaded witch and a dark haired wizard fight back to back, holding some rather large pistols. The witch is in a black dress and the wizard is in a black robe with golden decorations. Both looked a bit purple, due to the lighting. The witch's hair blows on the wind and she wears a necklace of bone beads.

Behind them, there's dust, mist and fog lit by twilight as a moon rises, framing their heads. Objects that look like shooting stars fall from the moon and there's a few visible impacts.

(Right) A white moon, on a background of the stars of space, with the following quote over the top of it:

“Idiot! You’ve likely killed us both, leaving us stuck out in the open like this.”

“We’ve got incoming. I know you’re angry and I suppose you’ve got every right to be, but we need to defend ourselves.”

“ ‘The enemy of my enemy is my friend’, for now, and then we decide what to do about the conflict between us.”

(Bottom) https://books2read.com/TymeDarkMoon

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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>

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