literature

The Dream Was Universal Access to Knowledge. The Result Was a Fiasco. (www.nytimes.com)

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Hey, I host a lemmy instance focused on books and reading (and all the communities that fall under that umbrella) (literature.cafe)

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Opinion | Long covid has derailed my life. Make no mistake: It could yours, too. (wapo.st)

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I Would Rather See My Books Get Pirated Than This (Or: Why Goodreads and Amazon Are Becoming Dumpster Fires) | Jane Friedman (janefriedman.com)

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.

[ITA] Canale Telegram per riassunti di letteratura e panieri compilati eCampus (t.me)

Report finds YouTube more popular than TikTok for young book buyers (www.theguardian.com)

‘I wanted to be No 1. But a certain JK Rowling came along’: Jacqueline Wilson on rivalry, censorship – and love (www.theguardian.com)

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‘What we publish will stay with you’: inside a small but mighty literary hit factory (www.theguardian.com)

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‘I can’t stress how much BookTok sells’: teen literary influencers swaying publishers (www.theguardian.com)

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Anyone has the Linux app image of Restream chat app running? (Need transparent chat for single screen)

I reported it as not working a day or two ago. They last updated it in 2021 or before but their support claims it’s still working. I stream using a single screen and so far I’ve been using the Steam overlay browser with some transparency but I’d like to be able to view chat without background with the text having borders...

Read Your Way Through Hanoi (www.nytimes.com)

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A poet’s ground-level account of the collapse of Uyghur society (wapo.st)

In ‘Waiting to be Arrested at Night,’ Tahir Hamut Izgil mourns a world of loved ones and letters lost...

What are you reading? (August 2023)

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

The Booker Prize 2023 longlist (thebookerprizes.com)

The longlist has been announced! It features work from four continents, four Irish writers, four debut novelists – and ten authors who are recognised by the Booker Prize for the first time...

Peter Pan and the Copyright that Never Grew Up - Plagiarism Today (www.plagiarismtoday.com)

When most people discuss perpetual copyrights, they’re usually its at least somewhat hyperbolic....

Nobody Ever Read American Literature Like This Guy Did (www.nytimes.com)

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The Booker Prize Foundation is partnering with Prisons in the UK to support reading groups (lithub.com)

Working with the Booker Prize Foundation, Dua Lipa recently visited HMP Downview, a women’s prison in Surrey, to get a firsthand glimpse of Books Unlocked, a program set up by the BPF and the National Literacy to foster a culture of reading for incarcerated people. Lipa, who recently launched a book club of her own, said of...

My reading spot for the weekend (beehaw.org)

‘It’s exciting, it’s powerful’: how translated fiction captured a new generation of readers (www.theguardian.com)

Booksellers sue over Texas law requiring them to rate books for appropriateness (www.texastribune.org)

Help identifying source of a Lytton Strachey quote

Hi guys, how’s it going? I’m trying to identify the source of a commonly cited quote by Lytton Strachey that goes as follows: “Perhaps the best test of a man’s intelligence is his capacity for making a summary.”...

Public libraries are the latest front in culture war battle over books (www.washingtonpost.com)

“I knew these books were coming into the library, and I just hadn’t had time to research it. I finally got the time back at the end of January,” Egger said. He added that he knows about the industry from having owned a bookstore years ago. “It’s been a huge push from the publishers and the librarians to get these books...

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