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So I'm rereading Pterry Pratchett's GUARDS! GUARDS! and I swear to you, that book is a phenomenal meditation on how tyranny can sweep a reasonably peaceful nation, and what needs to be done to dislodge draconian rulers.

Now more relevant than ever.

#Books


HAPPY PUBLIC DOMAIN DAY!

Books which will enter the US public domain:

William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest and The Maltese Falcon (as serialized in Black Mask magazine)
John Steinbeck, Cup of Gold (Steinbeck's first novel)
Richard Hughes, A High Wind in Jamaica
Oliver La Farge, Laughing Boy: A Navajo Love Story
Patrick Hamilton, Rope

#books #literature #publicdomain
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This library wheel is how you could have multiple tabs open in the days before web browsers. #library #wheel #books #browser


In November 1867.

The Leipzig publisher Reclam launches its Universal-Bibliothek series of cheap reprints with Goethe's Faust following the lifting of copyright restrictions in the new North German Confederation for authors dead for more than 30 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goethe%27s_Faust

Faust by Goethe at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/45806

#books #literature


Carl Sagan would've turned 90 today. Reading 'The Demon-Haunted World' as a teenager profoundly shaped the way I think today. Almost 30 years later the book remains (sadly) relevant...

#astronomy #science #books


If you want access to free books, please get a library card.

In the US, the more people there are with library cards, the more funding libraries have access to.

Libraries provide more than books. They are a community resource.

As an author and reader, I support libraries!

#books #bookstodon #libraries


Meine 8 Jährige stellt übermorgen in der Schule ihr Lieblingsbuch vor:

Ada & Zangemann

Sie erzählt über Technik, Programmieren & Software Freiheit.

Bin ich stolz!

Ich kann es Euch auch empfehlen. Text, Bilder und mehr online sowie Affiliate Link zum gedruckten Buch zugunsten @fsfe unter https://ada.fsfe.org

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