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tl;dr Books, most likely generated by an LLM, were being sold on Amazon under Jane Friedman’s name. The same books were added to her Goodreads profile. Amazon initially refused to remove the books. If it’s happening to her, it’s definitely happening to other authors.

So I'm a big advocate of utilizing your local public libraries. The best way to secure more funding for them is to use their services! So I thought real quick that I should write up a quick posts about the services that many libraries offer nowadays that you may not know about. Some of these points may be applicable mostly to...

Probably the best source of non-copyrighted literature on the planet, imho, and a necessary bookmark for any lit addict

I want to hear about your favorite books that include heists as a major element. Bonus points if it's set in a fantasy, sci-fi, or non-contemporary setting. (Basically I want something like Gentleman Bastards that's not just rereading Gentleman Bastards)

Do you buy rent or borrow? Or do you have a subscription of some kind? Do you read physical books or do you read ebooks?

cross-posted from: literature.cafe/post/349464...

Do you reread books or are you done with them once you’ve read them?...

NYT gift article expires in 30 days....

this is one of the main newsletters i use to keep up with new sci-fi and speculative fiction releases. it’s pretty good!

Hey Beehaw (and friends)! What’re you reading?...

I had an interesting thought yesterday. I was pondering, what if some of the archaic literature we relied upon to document past events was actually fictional accounts intended to be read for leisure?...

This essay by Jeremy B. Jones was originally published in The Bitter Southerner on June 6, 2023

Read any of these yet? How were they? Anything catch your eye to add to your TBR list?...

I can't help but wonder if the benefits of e-ink are as good in the format of goggles/glasses. I'm skeptical, for sure, but it is an interesting form factor. Also a interesting decision that they work with your phone, so the glasses don't need to have much on board storage. Would anybody here use something like this? Definitely...

So I recently finished the audiobook version of Knight's Bane by Kirk Mason . A fantasy romance featuring a vampire lady and a farmer turned knight....

List as many or as few as you like!

My personal favorites are steampunk, coming of age, and alternate history. How about you?

Just thought I'd throw it out there. You can import your Goodreads (or Storygraph or other) history as well....

We wanted to invite other Lemmy readers to join us in a reading challenge, we have tried to structure this so it’s very flexible with regards to genre, and we don’t require you to join or post on !books. We had just put in the work to make it and thought we could share the fun. (Admins/Mods please feel free to delete if...

Огляд коміксу «Одна весна в Чорнобилі» від Емманюеля Лепажа. Історія про Чорнобильську атомну катастрофу очима європейців. "Таємна кімната" - про комікси та мальописи українською.