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I've just installed #koreader on a couple of my devices and like it so far. Connecting to #Calibre wirelessly works on one of them.

If I could code, I'd try to make a plugin that automatically updates progress with #TheStoryGraph if that is even possible.
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I've been using Calibre to manage my ebooks for years, but haven't delved very deep into what it's actually capable of. But it seems that the combination of koreader and Calibre might be very useful.
I'm not quite sure what to do yet, but having Calibre serve books to my Kobo devices and automatic syncing between them over wireless sounds super useful.
I'm sure I can squeeze in a raspberry pi in there too somewhere. :-)
Time to tinker, I think.
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Are you a webmaster with your own domain and web site?

If you have your own domain name and a web site please send me a mention with the link. I'm especially grateful for webmasters who publish RSS feeds of their sites.

I am avoiding all big tech sites as much as I can. This means I am mostly avoiding free blog sites, forums, most social media (except some Fediverse), video sites, substack, whatever. I am truly interested in reading and viewing only subject matter published by webmasters who have taken the time to set up their own web sites. This separates most low-effort work from real work. This is a good sanity check as well.

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Title: Millions of cats
Author: Wanda Gág
Original publication: New York: Coward McCann, Inc, 1928

A short, syrupy, predictable children's fable that is totally worth it. The story has a multiple morals entwined in a five-minute read without being moralistic. Although a children's fable the moral is every bit applicable to adults and even old codgers. I adore old writings such as this. This is a free Gutenberg book available at the link below.

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/74181/pg74181.txt

Is it too soon to Covid times from 2020 in a fictional story? I’m thinking about including that as one of the plots in an upcoming book. #writingcommunity #authorsofmastodon #author #amwriting #bookstodon @bookstodon @[email protected]

My heart aches for the children who will no longer have access to their local library because some arrogant assholes decided to be offended by books with new ideas and different perspectives.

The cruelty is the point.

https://bookriot.com/donnelly-public-library-adults-only/

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#booksuggestions anybody know of some novels or series with themes including the good side of humanity? I really like #StarTrek for that, where the human heart is challenged yet prevails.

Not necessarily looking for Sci-Fi but not excluding it either. Maybe something historical or steampunky would be cool. 😅

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A book I edited was written up in the local paper.

So happy to see Shannon Bohrer's book, Judicial Soup: One Man's Wrongful Conviction and What It Means for Criminal Justice Reform, getting some media attention. This is a very relatable book on a hugely important topic. When you read it, first you'll be angry. Then you'll think, "If it can happen to that guy, it can happen to anyone."

https://www.fredericknewspost.com/news/arts_and_entertainment/judicial-soup-by-emmitsburg-author-highlights-the-need-for-justice-reform/article_ef4a743d-e470-5146-bf92-625c0cfb2a24.html

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This week I've been mainly reading, no. 153.

Each of Emma Newman's Planetfall quartet explores a different aspect of the same overarching story of religious driven intergalactic migration. In Atlas Alone (2019), the fourth story centres on an elite gamer & their attempt to uncover & then take revenge for a crime against humanity. To say much more would ruin the plot for you, but as with the others, this is great, fascinating sci-fi, which has a great payoff at the end.

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The actual NORTHERN LIGHTS showed up in Virginia and I was too engrossed in a book to notice. #bookstodon @bookstodon @librarians

"One never lies to people, they lie to themselves. A good liar gives fools what they want to hear and allows them to free themselves from the facts at hand, and choose the level of self delusion that fits their level of foolishness and moral terpitude."

--Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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10 authors, of whose books I've read at least five:

Ursula Le Guin
Kim Stanley Robinson
Octavia Butler
N. K. Jemisin
Becky Chambers
Iain M. Banks
Martha Wells
M. R. Carey
Lois McMaster Bujold
Vonda McIntyre

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This week I've been mainly reading, no. 148.

The first book of Ann Leckie's Radch trilogy, Ancillary Justice (2013) offers an interesting plot of AI, identity & insurrection. Leckie builds an interesting (political) world/universe for her tale of revenge & becoming, which while at times a little too tricksy, overall remains a compelling bit of space-opera. If at times the plot seems a little too convoluted, the central idea(s) is/are intriguing & developed interestingly

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My #bookreview is brief/won't spoil, to spread good, great, & spectacular #horror #books far & wide.

The family trauma that pervades THE DAY OF THE DOOR is horrifying enough, but coupled with the intensely creepy events that occur, this story encapsulates "HORROR" in a masterful, terrifying way. Laurel Hightower has written a beautifully dark story about the Things that haunt our hearts. (Ghoulish Books)

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Looking forward to the Liz Truss book getting remaindered at The Works in a month or so. Sounds like the finest work of comedy since Airplane! The Movie. 📖 #books #bookstodon @bookstodon

Ygdrasil, the Internet's first and oldest literary journal is still in operation. Below find three links, [1] to the older archive and [2] to the recent editions and [3] to the old web page.

"Ygdrasil, A Journal of the Poetic Arts is the first Literary Journal to be published on the Internet (1994)."

The oldest archives are here:

https://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/201/300/ygdrasil/index.html

Newer issues from about 2017 to date are here:

https://independentscholar.academia.edu/KlausGerken

The ugly old Internet page and archive is here:

https://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/201/300/ygdrasil/html/2017/17-02/users.synapse.net/kgerken/index.html

Enjoy!

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Moneyland: Why Thieves and Crooks Now Rule the World and How to Take It Back by Oliver Bullough

Join the investigative journalist Oliver Bullough on a journey into Moneyland - the secret country of the lawless, stateless superrich.
Learn how the institutions of Europe and the United States have become money-laundering operations, undermining the foundations of Western stability.

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#nonfiction
#corruption
#DirtyMoney

† Vernor Vinge (79)

Rest in peace. Loved the Zones of Thought series.

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Well @bookstodon, I thoroughly enjoyed reading those... #scifi #books #bookstodon

From yesterday, my review of the excellent Cascade Failure by L. M. Sagas. Published today.
https://susannashore.blogspot.com/2024/03/cascade-failure-by-l-m-sagas-review.html

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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

A WISH

May seven tears in every week
Touch the hollow of your cheek,
That I--signed with such a dew--
For a lion’s share may sue
Of the roses ever curled
Round the May-pole of the world.

Heavy riddles lie in this,
Sorrow’s sauce for every kiss.

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IN MAY

In a nook
That opened south,
You and I
Lay mouth to mouth.

A snowy gull
And sooty daw
Came and looked
With many a caw;

“Such,” I said,
“Are I and you,
When you’ve kissed me
Black and blue!”

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EPITAPH

_After reading Ronsard’s lines from Rabelais_

If fruits are fed on any beast
Let vine-roots suck this parish priest,
For while he lived, no summer sun
Went up but he’d a bottle done,
And in the starlight beer and stout
Kept his waistcoat bulging out.

Then Death that changes happy things
Damned his soul to water springs.

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THE PASSING OF THE SHEE

_After looking at one of A. E.’s pictures_

Adieu, sweet Angus, Maeve, and Fand,
Ye plumed yet skinny Shee,
That poets played with hand in hand
To learn their ecstasy.

We’ll stretch in Red Dan Sally’s ditch,
And drink in Tubber fair,
Or poach with Red Dan Philly’s bitch
The badger and the hare.

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Author: John M. Synge
Original Publication: Dublin: Maunsel & Company, Ltd, 1909
Source: Project Gutenberg eBooks
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73189

#FinishedReading this slim volume of early 50s #SciFi by #AEVanVogt . The goofy title and stories of visiting inhabitable Mars and Venus makes this look like super old fashioned stuff, but that, like much else in this book, is an illusion. This is pure Cold War paranoia, with disorienting temporal and character shifts, mind control drugs, sinister conspiracies etc, and in general this feels like a bridge to the high points of Philip K Dick. #Bookstodon @bookstodon

Fresh off of his Nebula nomination for "Bad Doors" (Congrats, John!) and given his upcoming first novel release, @Wiswell answers his friend's @Princejvstin 's Six Books at the NOAF blog

http://www.nerds-feather.com/2024/03/6-books-with-john-wiswell.html

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Asperger Syndrome and Psychotherapy: Understanding Asperger Perspectives by Paula Jacobsen

People with Asperger Syndrome (AS) understand and respond to the world in a very different way from people without this condition. The challenge for psychotherapists working with Asperger clients lies in setting aside their own preconceptions and learning to understand their client's perspective.

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Happy release day to me!

https://johnwilker.scifibooksalactic-instability/

Check it out! Buy it on whatever platform you enjoy reading on!

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