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<p>It&#x27;s time for the Trans Rights Readathon this month! I&#x27;m looking forward to my third time paticipating. It starts the 17th and ends the 31st. <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/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/transrightsreadathon/" rel="tag">#transrightsreadathon</a> <a href="https://transrightsreadathon.carrd.co/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>transrightsreadathon.carrd.co/</a></p>

Thousands of authors publish ‘empty’ book in protest over AI using their work <small class="notice" x-post-type-data="None"> Takahe has limited support for this type: <a href="https://lemmy.ml/post/44282621">See Original Page</a> </small>

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa - Anna’s Archive <small class="notice" x-post-type-data="None"> Takahe has limited support for this type: <a href="https://lemmy.ml/post/43861151">See Original Page</a> </small>

Eurocentrism : modernity, religion, and democracy : a critique of Eurocentrism and culturalism - Anna’s Archive <small class="notice" x-post-type-data="None"> Takahe has limited support for this type: <a href="https://lemmy.ml/post/43861149">See Original Page</a> </small>

<p>18th-Century Portuguese Library Has Bats That Protect the Priceless Books Housed Inside</p><p>By Eva Baron </p><p><a href="https://mymodernmet.com/biblioteca-joanina-bats-pest-control/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="mymodernmet.com/biblioteca-joanina-bats-pest-control/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mymodernmet.com/biblioteca-joa</span><span class="invisible">nina-bats-pest-control/</span></a></p><p>The Bat, a poem by D.H. Lawrence at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/60337/pg60337-images.html#BAT" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/60337/pg60337-images.html#BAT"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/6</span><span class="invisible">0337/pg60337-images.html#BAT</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/library/" rel="tag">#library</a></p>

<p>&quot;Someone has a great fire in his soul and nobody ever comes to warm themselves at it, and passers-by see nothing but a little smoke at the top of the chimney and then go on their way.&quot;</p><p>Quote in his Letter (no. 155), June 1880.</p><p>~Vincent van Gogh, born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1856.</p><p>Van Gogh&#x27;s letters are available online at:<br><a href="https://vangoghletters.org/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>vangoghletters.org/</a></p><p>Books by Van Gogh at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Vincent+van+Gogh&amp;submit_search=Search" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Vincent+van+Gogh&amp;submit_search=Search"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=Vincent+van+Gogh&amp;submit_search=Search</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#art</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>&quot;Mastered by desire impulsive,<br>By a mighty inward urging,<br>I am ready now for singing,<br>Ready to begin the chanting<br>Of our nation’s ancient folk-song...&quot;</p><p>An epic border: Finland’s poetic masterpiece, the Kalevala, has roots in 2 cultures and 2 countries</p><p>by Thomas A. DuBois</p><p><a href="https://theconversation.com/an-epic-border-finlands-poetic-masterpiece-the-kalevala-has-roots-in-2-cultures-and-2-countries-261444" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="theconversation.com/an-epic-border-finlands-poetic-masterpiece-the-kalevala-has-roots-in-2-cultures-and-2-countries-261444"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/an-epic-bo</span><span class="invisible">rder-finlands-poetic-masterpiece-the-kalevala-has-roots-in-2-cultures-and-2-countries-261444</span></a></p><p>Kalevala at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Kalevala" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Kalevala"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=Kalevala</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>

<p>Once again I must repeat it—our world is populated by the sleeping, who have died and are dreaming that they are alive. That is why there are more and more people in the world, for it is populated by the sleeping dead who keep growing in number, while the real people living for the first time are few. In all this confusion none of us knows or can possibly know if he is someone who is only dreaming life or really living it. -- from &#x27;House of Day, House of Night&#x27; by Olga Tokarczuk, trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones</p><p><a href="/tags/bookquote/" rel="tag">#BookQuote</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>

<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1885.</p><p>Mark Twain&#x27;s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published in the US for the 1st time, in New York by Charles L. Webster, illustrated by E. W. Kemble, the 1st impression having been delayed for replacement of an unauthorized obscene alteration to one of the illustrative plates. Its first-person narrative in colloquial language is initially controversial but ultimately influential in the development of realism in American literature.</p><p>At PG<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/76" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/76</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>📚 Twelve Months by: Jim Butcher</p><p>Harry Dresden has been through a lot, and so has his city. After Harry and his allies narrowly managed to save Chicago from being razed to the ground, everything is different—and it&#x27;s not just the current lack of electricity.</p><p>In the battle, Harry lost people he cared about. And th...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/twelve-months" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/twelve-months"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/twelve-mon</span><span class="invisible">ths</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/urbanfiction/" rel="tag">#urbanfiction</a> <a href="/tags/mysterydetective/" rel="tag">#mysterydetective</a> <a href="/tags/privateinvestigators/" rel="tag">#privateinvestigators</a></p>

<p>&quot;The name of the one was Obstinate and the name of the other Pliable.&quot;</p><p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1678.</p><p>The first part of English nonconformist John Bunyan&#x27;s Christian allegory The Pilgrim&#x27;s Progress, partly written while he was imprisoned for unlicensed preaching, is published in London.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pilgrim%27s_Progress" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pilgrim%27s_Progress"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pilg</span><span class="invisible">rim%27s_Progress</span></a></p><p>The Pilgrim&#x27;s Progress at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/131" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/131</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 1823 novelist Ann Radcliffe died.</p><p>She &quot;was an English novelist who pioneered the Gothic novel, and a minor poet. Her fourth and most popular novel, The Mysteries of Udolpho, was published in 1794.... Her novels combine suspenseful narratives, exotic historical settings, and apparently-supernatural events.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Radcliffe" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Radcliffe"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Radc</span><span class="invisible">liffe</span></a></p><p>Books by Radcliffe at PG:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1147" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1147"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/1147</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>Majority Report welcomes <a href="/tags/jamieholmes/" rel="tag">#JamieHolmes</a>, author of the <a href="/tags/thefreeandthedead/" rel="tag">#TheFreeAndTheDead</a>, which tells the story of how a free Black American and an <a href="/tags/indigenous/" rel="tag">#Indigenous</a> warrior resisted the US attack on the <a href="/tags/seminole/" rel="tag">#Seminole</a> nation in pre-statehood <a href="/tags/florida/" rel="tag">#Florida</a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiuAwww07X8" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiuAwww07X8"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiuAww</span><span class="invisible">w07X8</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/souanaffetustenukke/" rel="tag">#SouanaffeTustenukke</a> <a href="/tags/osceola/" rel="tag">#Osceola</a> <a href="/tags/nativeamericanhistory/" rel="tag">#NativeAmericanHistory</a> <a href="/tags/nativeamericans/" rel="tag">#NativeAmericans</a> <a href="/tags/seminoles/" rel="tag">#Seminoles</a> <a href="/tags/blackseminoles/" rel="tag">#BlackSeminoles</a> <a href="/tags/seminolewars/" rel="tag">#SeminoleWars</a> <a href="/tags/secondseminolewar/" rel="tag">#SecondSeminoleWar</a> <a href="/tags/blackhistory/" rel="tag">#BlackHistory</a> <a href="/tags/blackhistorymonth/" rel="tag">#BlackHistoryMonth</a> <a href="/tags/ushistory/" rel="tag">#UShistory</a> <a href="/tags/americanhistory/" rel="tag">#AmericanHistory</a> <a href="/tags/forcedremovals/" rel="tag">#forcedRemovals</a> <a href="/tags/colonialviolence/" rel="tag">#colonialViolence</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>

<p>📚 **Are students reading less than we used to?**</p><p>David Wignall</p><p>_A few months ago, a professor told me that she had cut another book from her course’s assigned reading list. “When I started teaching at Williams,” she said, “I assigned a book per week. No way I could do that now.”_</p><p>🔗 <a href="https://williamsrecord.com/469974/opinions/are-students-reading-less-than-we-used-to/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="williamsrecord.com/469974/opinions/are-students-reading-less-than-we-used-to/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">williamsrecord.com/469974/opin</span><span class="invisible">ions/are-students-reading-less-than-we-used-to/</span></a>. </p><p><a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#Reading</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/education/" rel="tag">#Education</a> <a href="/tags/learning/" rel="tag">#Learning</a> @bookstodon</p>

<p>I send thanks to the buyer from Maryland who purchased an art print of</p><p>Light Reading -- <a href="https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/light-reading-steve-henderson.html?product=art-print" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/light-reading-steve-henderson.html?product=art-print"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/f</span><span class="invisible">eatured/light-reading-steve-henderson.html?product=art-print</span></a></p><p>May the image transport you to a perfect day, one in which you immerse yourself in a most wonderful story, a book that you want to read to the end, but at the same time, never shut the covers to permanently close.</p><p><a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/read/" rel="tag">#read</a> <a href="/tags/book/" rel="tag">#book</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#art</a> <a href="/tags/artwork/" rel="tag">#artwork</a> <a href="/tags/drawing/" rel="tag">#drawing</a> <a href="/tags/mastoart/" rel="tag">#mastoart</a> <a href="/tags/fediart/" rel="tag">#fediart</a> <a href="/tags/buyintoart/" rel="tag">#buyintoart</a> <a href="/tags/fedigiftshop/" rel="tag">#fedigiftshop</a> <a href="/tags/ayearforart/" rel="tag">#ayearforart</a> <a href="/tags/woman/" rel="tag">#woman</a> <a href="/tags/home/" rel="tag">#home</a> <a href="/tags/peaceful/" rel="tag">#peaceful</a> <a href="/tags/story/" rel="tag">#story</a></p>

<p>If you’re looking to make your knowledge of the world more well rounded, the Oxford University Press’ Very Short Introduction series is a great place to start. The books are written by experts, usually 120-160 pages long (3-5 hours in audio) and generally at roughly a first year university subject level. They have books on an astounding range of subjects. I’m trying to read as many of them as possible, I’ve finished 25 so far </p><p><a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/content/series/v/very-short-introductions-vsi/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="global.oup.com/academic/content/series/v/very-short-introductions-vsi/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">global.oup.com/academic/conten</span><span class="invisible">t/series/v/very-short-introductions-vsi/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/speakingoutofplace/" rel="tag">#SpeakingOutOfPlace</a> welcomes <a href="/tags/andrewross/" rel="tag">#AndrewRoss</a>, author of <a href="/tags/theweatherreport/" rel="tag">#TheWeatherReport</a></p><p>&#x27;[W]e follow up Andrew’s claim that in <a href="/tags/palestine/" rel="tag">#Palestine</a> we find a “grisly future arriving there sooner than elsewhere.” The book focusses on the idea of population and scarcity, and argues that much of the policies that are based on the presumption of scarce resources are actually predicated on what Ross calls “bogus scarcity&quot;...&#x27;</p><p><a href="https://speakingoutofplace.buzzsprout.com/2084729/episodes/18536376-a-conversation-with-andrew-ross-the-weather-report-a-journey-through-unsettled-climates" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="speakingoutofplace.buzzsprout.com/2084729/episodes/18536376-a-conversation-with-andrew-ross-the-weather-report-a-journey-through-unsettled-climates"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">speakingoutofplace.buzzsprout.</span><span class="invisible">com/2084729/episodes/18536376-a-conversation-with-andrew-ross-the-weather-report-a-journey-through-unsettled-climates</span></a><br><a href="/tags/ecocide/" rel="tag">#ecocide</a> <a href="/tags/westbank/" rel="tag">#WestBank</a> <a href="/tags/climate/" rel="tag">#climate</a> <a href="/tags/climatejustice/" rel="tag">#climateJustice</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>

<p>Wigtown Spring Book Weekend<br>2–4 May</p><p>Covenanters &amp; women crime writers will be two of the themes woven into this year’s Wigtown Spring Book Weekend. With dozens of events from author talks to guided walks, writing, photography &amp; music workshops, the programme is now available online:</p><p><a href="https://www.wigtownbookfestival.com/blog/wigtown-spring-book-weekend-2026" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.wigtownbookfestival.com/blog/wigtown-spring-book-weekend-2026"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.wigtownbookfestival.com/bl</span><span class="invisible">og/wigtown-spring-book-weekend-2026</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/bookfestivals/" rel="tag">#bookfestivals</a> <a href="/tags/historicalfiction/" rel="tag">#historicalfiction</a> <a href="/tags/crimefiction/" rel="tag">#crimefiction</a> <a href="/tags/womenwriters/" rel="tag">#womenwriters</a> <a href="/tags/wigtown/" rel="tag">#Wigtown</a></p>

<p>Tried reading a Kindle book with VoiceOver in years and actually the <a href="/tags/accessibility/" rel="tag">#Accessibility</a> isn&#x27;t bad, for me, but I don&#x27;t use a Braille display <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=G4PD9B7BHV4GQP5U" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=G4PD9B7BHV4GQP5U"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.amazon.com/gp/help/custome</span><span class="invisible">r/display.html?nodeId=G4PD9B7BHV4GQP5U</span></a> <a href="/tags/a11y/" rel="tag">#A11y</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a></p>

<p>📚 Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption by: Stephen King</p><p>Red&#x27;s a guy who can get you whatever you want here in Maine&#x27;s corrupt and hard-edged Shawshank State Penitentiary (for a price, of course), but the one thing he doesn&#x27;t count on is an unexpected friendship forged with fellow inmate Andy Dufr...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/rita-hayworth-and-shawshank-redemption" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/rita-hayworth-and-shawshank-redemption"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/rita-haywo</span><span class="invisible">rth-and-shawshank-redemption</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/horrorfiction/" rel="tag">#horrorfiction</a> <a href="/tags/thrillers/" rel="tag">#thrillers</a> <a href="/tags/suspensefiction/" rel="tag">#suspensefiction</a> <a href="/tags/mediatiein/" rel="tag">#mediatiein</a></p>

The Hidden Women’s Labor behind Modern Literary Masterpieces <small class="notice" x-post-type-data="None"> Takahe has limited support for this type: <a href="https://lemmy.ml/post/42835604">See Original Page</a> </small>

<p>This week&#x27;s <a href="/tags/newbooks/" rel="tag">#NewBooks</a> at the library: I bought second-hand copies of Animal Anomalies: What Abnormal Anatomies Reveal about Normal Development and The Correspondence of <a href="/tags/charlesdarwin/" rel="tag">#CharlesDarwin</a>, Volume 14: 1866, both from Cambridge University Press. I also adopted a damaged copy of the large-format English/German Elefantenreich: Eine Fossilwelt in Europa from Verlag Beier &amp; Beran, which features some amazing fold-out plates. I hear it is basically out of print now.</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/scicomm/" rel="tag">#Scicomm</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/evolution/" rel="tag">#Evolution</a> <a href="/tags/developmentalbiology/" rel="tag">#DevelopmentalBiology</a> <a href="/tags/evodevo/" rel="tag">#EvoDevo</a> <a href="/tags/historyofscience/" rel="tag">#HistoryOfScience</a> <a href="/tags/sciencehistory/" rel="tag">#ScienceHistory</a> <a href="/tags/histsci/" rel="tag">#HistSci</a> <a href="/tags/fossils/" rel="tag">#Fossils</a> <a href="/tags/mammoths/" rel="tag">#Mammoths</a> <a href="/tags/paleontology/" rel="tag">#Paleontology</a> <a href="/tags/palaeontology/" rel="tag">#Palaeontology</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>Joseph Conrad’s Travel Stories Weren’t Black and White</p><p>Conrad’s celebration of imperial exploration is accompanied by an acknowledgment that such feats often go hand-in-hand with oppression and exploitation.</p><p>By: H.M.A. Leow </p><p><a href="https://daily.jstor.org/joseph-conrads-travel-stories-werent-black-and-white/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="daily.jstor.org/joseph-conrads-travel-stories-werent-black-and-white/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">daily.jstor.org/joseph-conrads</span><span class="invisible">-travel-stories-werent-black-and-white/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>