An important read for #InternationalWomensDay and month. #books #bookstodon

In the #littlefreelibrary ! Featuring a comical cast of animal characters—plus a caterpillar sidekick with a BIG appetite for readers to find hidden on every page—this hardcover picture book about self-acceptance, friendship, and helping others is perfect for celebrating St. Patrick's Day! #gifted by #randomhousekids #booksky #kidlit #books #bookstodon @bookstodon @kidlit

Any good recs for the #TransRightsReadathon ? I like romance, memoir, graphic novels, YA, fantasy. Preferably nothing too angsty right now. I have KU until the end of the month.

Also, any favorite places to donate for the readathon?

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#LGBTQBooks
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Recently, I asked which Austen/Bronte character you would interview, and I still maintain that it would be Wentworth for me.

#AmReading #AmWriting @bookstodon #books #Bookstodon
#WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #Regency #Georgian #JaneAusten @romancelandia

I've been formatting books for seven years now and have done hundreds of titles. Have a new book you want to self-publish, but just don't quite know how to prep your book files? We use Vellum for the Mac, and provide formatting for ePub (all formats) and pdf/print.

Best of all? It's just $85, changes included. Try it now:

https://www.otherworldsink.com/formatting/

Looking for the perfect read this #SaintPatricksDay? This book will change how you see Saint Patrick—and he wrote it himself! Let me tell you why it’s a must-read: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce8XV7pu2V0&list=PLy29NGM2NwiwWgg1PMY9T8TfEh52j7o_a&index=1 #bookstodon #reading #books

Finished #audiobook Red Team Blues by Cory Doctorow. Well narrated by Wil Wheaton. I enjoyed this book quite a lot. Look forward to other Martin Hench books. #fiction #bookstodon

Chris Hemsworth as Thor as Mr Darcy? Yes, please!

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#WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #Regency #Georgian #JaneAusten @romancelandia

QSFer BL Maxwell has a new MM fantasy romance out: Trolling for Love.

Looking for love isn’t easy when you’re an antisocial troll.

Gunnar has existed near the border of the monster world in the wilds of Iceland for centuries only straying into the human world occasionally out of boredom. He finds many of their ...

https://www.queerscifi.com/new-release-trolling-for-love-bl-maxwell/

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If I record myself reading a copyrighted book and share the recording with some friends (for free), is that copyright infringement?

If so, can I claim fair use by, idk, dressing up in a funny outfit or something and turning the reading into a performance art piece, which I then record and share?

Is it copyright infringement to extract the audio from said recording of such a performance art piece and share that? There must be a legal way to do this...

Yesterday I finished What It's Like in Words by Eliza Moss and I have no idea how to rate or review it, because I thought it was very well-written and it felt real, but it was one of the most un-fun and exhausting books I've ever read and I didn't enjoy it at all. I want to be fair to it but I don't know how to do that with my particular rating system. #books #bookstodon

Fahrenheit 451. By Ray Bradbury.

It’s the future, and your job is to burn books found in people’s homes, as they are illegal; you never questioned this because everyone is fine with this idea since books were replaced long ago with more entertaining visual media, but then something makes you want to read one of these books, and a different kind of flame is lit inside you.

4 of 5 library cats .

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Der #KOReader ist meine #FOSS App der Wahl auf allen meinen E-Ink-Geräten. Ja, die Lernkurve ist am Anfang steil, aber nach einer Weile kann man sich an all den vielen Einstellungen wie Ligaturen, Kerning usw. erfreuen.

Mein Killer-Feature ist der direkte Export meiner Anstreichungen direkt in #Joplin.

https://gnulinux.ch/mit-open-source-lesen-der-koreader

https://koreader.rocks/

On the @fictionable #podcast the writer Ben Sorgiovanni gives us his #philosophy of #fiction

Catch it at https://www.fictionable.world/podcasts/ben-sorgiovanni-philosophical-tiger-short-story-fiction or via #ApplePodcasts #Spotify #Acast and more…

#books #reading #writing #ShortStories #bookstodon @bookstodon

'Whether reading a koan or a passage from Malone Dies, one has a sense of glimpsing The Absolute through a letterbox.'

Jonny Pelham on the challenge of designing #book covers for #SamuelBeckett

https://www.faber.co.uk/journal/book-cover-design-jonny-pelham-on-beckett

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Today's blog post was my response to Jon Young's What the Robin Knows, which focused on developing good listening habits, in the context of advice about how to listen to birds

https://silencesandsounds.blogspot.com

New Read - Animal Crossing: New Horizons Deserted Island Diary

Another volume of Animal Crossing's on-going silly manga set in the New Horizons game. It's very silly, very fun, very full of in-jokes for folks who play the game.

Each chapter is a silly self-contained story. My favorite is the one where everyone decides to honor Tom Nook with gifts for all the good he's done for the island. They terraform to make an entire section of the island look like him. It's hilarious.

Lots of fun and silliness.