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#Books #philosophy #apothegms"The hordes of words that fill our books proclaim our ignorance, reveal the obscurities that flood our knowledge. If we were perfectly enlightened, our moral books would contian only maxims and our books on physics and spirituality would contain only axioms and facts. Everything else is clutter and shows no more than our gropings, our efforts, and our difficulties." --Joseph Joubert, transl. Auster n.b.Joubert mused widely.

RE: https://omfg.town/@dansinker/116465262838000723Thanks for the reminder! I've wanted to read (and perhaps write about) Ian McEwan's What We Can Know. Will go to Vromans in #Pasadena today and pick up a copy. #books

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Got this in email and it's worth sharing. If you buy #books, consider buying them at Bookshop.org. While their prices might not be as good as #Amazon for some things, every purchase supports a small Indy bookstore. Read the message to learn more. And it's free shipping for Indy Book Day. #reading And if you're an author who has been suckered into an exclusive deal with Amazon, WHY? You're helping them wipe out Indy publishers and the organizations that support them.

The 100 greatest British novelsBBC Culture polled book critics outside the UK, to give an outsider’s perspective on the best in British literature. (from the archives)https://www.bbc.co.uk/culture/article/20151204-the-100-greatest-british-novelsSome of the are available in our catalog:https://www.gutenberg.org/#books #literature

Winners of the 2025 Baifang Schell Book Prize for the best books about China or the Sinophone WorldFiction: The Running Flame: A Novel by Fang FangNon-fiction: Daughters of the Bamboo Grove by Barbara Demick https://chinabooksreview.com/2026/04/23/2025-winners/ #books #China

@pixin Thanks to @joel for this!

GARNISH. An entrance fee demanded by the old prisoners of one just committed to gaol.A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)--#books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons

'In December 1818, five months after Austen’s death, Northanger Abbey was finally published in a four-volume set together with Persuasion. The first volume includes a heartfelt ’Biographical Notice' by her brother Henry, in which he publicly names his sister as the author of her novels for the first time.’That handwritten 'Miss Austen', oh my#Books #JaneAusten

@LadyMaverick Yeah, the realism makes a huge difference. I'm curious if you've tried any other TTS voices that come close, or if ElevenLabs is still way ahead for you.

Political “work” is maintenance. “…For all their fixation on revolutionary design solutions, innovators often find it expedient to ally themselves with the opportunists who already control the more conventional levers of politics and capital. The rest of us are left to navigate the world they have built, and to maintain it as well as we can.”#books #technology #politics #uspoli https://www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/04/stewart-brands-lost-promise-maintenance-book-review/686898/?utm_medium=offsite&utm_source=flipboard&utm_campaign=books

dead prez - Animal in Man https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubMQkPzc0FsMe First and the Gimme Gimmes - I Am a Rockhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HC_X3RF4xARestraining Order - Free Ridehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTi0GEP69uMRamones - Pet Semataryhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJWFsZ_YUc4Nirvana - Scentless Apprenticehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tm1nCe-2Cuo#ThursdayFiveList #CelebrateBooksDay #books #Bookstodon #punk #PunkRock #rap #hiphop #Ramones #PaulSimon

@sylvia_ritter cutie!!!!

Oooh look at that, the fine folks of Grimmory released v3.0.0! A shiny major release of the (e)book library management tool!Look at all the cleanup they have done! Massively grateful for this fork, it’s amazing work.https://github.com/grimmory-tools/grimmory/releases/tag/v3.0.0#books #reading #ebook

In the mood for Small Town Cozy Mysteries?50+ authors are giving away their books for FREE* on BookFunnel!https://bf.sophiemaddon.com/smalltownsleuths/qqvwv9sawzPS: Includes an excerpt of my new cozy mystery (with a sweet FF romance subplot and ND rep)!#Books #bookstodon #freebooks #ebooks #IndieAuthor #cozyMysteries #CozyBooks #NoSpiceBooks #BookFunnel #MysteryBooks #mysteries *with newsletter sign-up

@gutenberg_org Currently I'm reading Nothing Tastes As Good by Luke Dumas, and it is so good. I've read two thirds of it in two days, that's how good it is.

When Benjamin Franklin arrived in France in December 1776, he stayed with Jacques-Barthélémy Gruel, a Nantes shipowner who made a fortune in the slave trade. Among Gruel’s ships was the Marie-Séraphique, which transported between 302 and 361 enslaved people on each of its four trips from Africa to the French West Indies between 1769 and 1773.Franklin and some of his fellow revolutionaries sought the support of Nantes merchants and shipowners in transporting weapons and other goods across the Atlantic Ocean during the American Revolution.We know of the ship and its history because of a rare detailed drawing in the Nantes history museum. The exhibit and a memorial to the abolition of slavery elsewhere in the city acknowledge that Nantes was the leading French port in the slave trade in the 18th and 19th centuries.#hedidnotconquer #Canada #history #books #AmericanRevolution

There's a meme about opening the nearest book at page 42 and chosing a good sentence. It's my The Crooked Medium's Guide to Murder, The speaker is notorious medium and MC, Mrs Ashton."Her client had taken the bait, and with fashionable hypocrisy, intended to evade her brutal husband's orders".Yup, that's the book in a sentence#books #reading #writing #novels

We're past 122% of our goal for the #LesbianVisibilityWeek Mega Bundle!! Y'all are awesome! Still four days to go, so plenty of time to get all those amazing lesbians into your library!! 🤩https://itch.io/b/3635/lesbian-visibility-week-mega-bundle-2026#Books #Bookstodon #QueerWriters #LesFic

Janesville Free Public Library, historic building in Janesville, Minnesota, United States. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janesville_Free_Public_Library#libraries #books #map