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Protesting the Decline of Reading (www.millersbookreview.com)

Bookish Diversions: Do Audiobooks Count? (www.millersbookreview.com)

After the fall of Small Press Distribution, is it time for “Bandcamp for Small Presses?”

cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/12924678...

State of things and some upcoming downtime

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.

How do you follow your favorite authors ?

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...

What should I read to introduce myself to english poetry?

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

Zodiac, a Graphic Memoir (u.osu.edu)

The 2023 Hugos: When Science Fiction Meets Political Fact (chinamediaproject.org)

What was a poem that made you fall in love with poetry? How did you find it?

Did you get any good books for the holidays?

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

Non-Megacorp Ebook Shop?

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?

Books I've read and would recommend this year.

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

Wrote my 2023 reading retrospective! (alexsirac.com)

Including:...

Time Shelter - a (badly written) Review-Spoilers

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

Mastodon Instance Recommendation

Gabe, please remove this if it doesn’t belong here....

My books of the year (some of them). Let's discuss what we read this year. (literature.cafe)

Why do people buy kindles instead of just reading books on their tablets or phones?

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 "bovine" joke in The Restaurant at the end of the Universe by Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series).

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?...