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Heya, I’m still here. Still working on things in the background and been quite busy. Right now the instance server needs some updates and the pictures backend is a little wonky. Gonna take the instance down for a bit presumably sometime tomorrow for some (hopefully) quick spring cleaning.

As almost every readers, I have some favorite authors from which I like to read everything they publish. But I wonder how I can efficiently “follow” their publication. Do you know about a service (free, at least as in free beer, at best from the foss world)which can offer such syndication? I’m thinking about a personalized...

I’m French native speaker. I believe I can speak fluent English but I know want to discover English poetry. Where should I start ?

I got a few, but mainly just stuck to the library.

I’m new to the Ebook game and confused about the ecosystem. Do Amazon, Rakuten, and Barnes and Noble really control the whole market? Anywhere I can buy big titles not from big companies?

Bag of bones: Made a post about this already....

Including:...

As @Arthur requested, here’s a review of Time Shelter. I apologize in advance for what you are going to read....

I’ve never used one but it struck me as odd that people would use a seperate device for smth so easily done on your phone....

The whole “bovine” joke was hilarious on one hand and a little horrifying on the other. It got me thinking: how would I feel if an animal I was about to consume came up to me enthusiastically conveying its consent for being eaten? I will be horrified, just like Arthur! But why?...

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I can do a 13 days of horror books highlighting some horror books in !fiction if there’s any interest in that. It seems that making highlight posts made a lot of people engaged and started a lot of conversations. Thoughts? I’m willing to do like daily to weekly themed book highlights. I can even do nonfiction book highlights...

A few days back, I came across a thread on Mastodon where people were sharing great opening lines of books. I pitched in with the following opening lines from Discworld:...

Help! I’m looking for interesting microbloggers who focus on the literature space (especially speculative fiction) to follow. Preferably on mastodon since I can consume the rss feed of their content.

Nanowrimo is in November so I’ll make the community in prep to rally people on lemmy who might be interested in it

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