The French scholar Pierre Abélard is found guilty of heresy #OTD in 1140.
In history and popular culture, he is best known for his passionate and tragic love affair, and intense philosophical exchange, with his brilliant student and eventual wife, Héloïse d'Argenteuil. He was a defender of women and of their education. via @wikipedia
The chronicle of a death (frequently) foretold... at the risk of reviving a heated debate in my timeline some months ago on the relative advantages of #ebooks vs. printed #books, despite claims e-books would lead to the demise of the printed book, it seems for many people (in the UK) the printed book remains the way they like to read... the death of the printed book remains on the horizon (but somehow never reached)
A Victorian realist, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism.He was highly critical of much in Victorian society, especially on the declining status of rural people in Britain, such as those from his native South West England. via @wikipedia
It means you can read them on any device, and they're not locked to a single vendor or company. You actually own them.
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Dewey was one of the primary figures associated with the philosophy of pragmatism and is considered one of the fathers of functional psychology. He was also a major educational reformer for the 20th century, he founded the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools.
Visit https://www.pgdp.net to learn about how to help create some of Project Gutenberg's forthcoming eBooks. Proofreading a page a day is easy, fun, and a great way to help bring literature to the world. There are many different roles, for the different steps involved in digitizing a printed book to make a Project Gutenberg eBook. Beginners are welcome, and there is an online tutorial to get started. And @DProofreaders are already at Mastodon!
While still in his teens, he was able to determine a necessary and sufficient condition for a polynomial to be solvable by radicals, thereby solving a problem that had been open for 350 years. His work laid the foundations for Galois theory and group theory, two major branches of abstract algebra. via @Wikipedia
#AppleBooks hat kürzlich die maximale Covergröße für eBooks erhöht, was den stetig verbesserten und in der Auflösung zunehmenden Reader-Displays geschuldet ist. Ich habe nun auch meine Master-Sets für die eBook-Layouts auf 6000 x 8000 Pixel erhöht. Das sollte mir für die nächste Runde und ein paar Jahre genug Reserve geben ... #autorenleben#selfpublisher#ebooks#nebularserie@tombud
Man sollte immer eine Nacht über einen Titelbild Entwurf schlafen, denn dann wäre mir früher aufgefallen, dass die Titelheldin keine blauen Augen hatte. Da das aber für eine Mariner zwingend notwendig ist, habe ich nochmals ein ernstes Wort mit meiner AI gesprochen, und sie hat mir schließlich meinen Wunsch erfüllt, nach endlosen Läufen (hüstel). Jetzt bin ich aber mit der Magda Arkroid sehr zufrieden und so wird jetzt das Titelbild aussehen. #nebularserie#sciencefiction#spaceopera#ebooks
I like the convenience of the Books app, but Apple does that thing where I have to look at content depending on the current app store region. So, I wonder… What else is there?
@petersuber
Libraries are an important public/civic amenity.
Right now, individuals ages 13-21 can apply for a free Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) eCard, gaining access to BPL's eBook collection and learning databases.