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Monday, 22 April 2024

Dracula Daily

quote [ Get the classic novel Dracula, emailed to you in real time as it happens. ]

That was a promise too interesting not to mention. Reminds me of this other gamey dialogue that reads the whole of Moby Dick to you (can't seem to find it, gladly). Via Fallen London newsletter.
[SFW] [literature] [+2 Interesting]
[by Paracetamol@5:47amGMT] [1 comment]

Monday, 8 April 2024

On the Collapse of Small Press Distribution

quote [ Without a distributor, presses like Black Lawrence and Noemi are completely cut off from their main sources of income?and for some, SPD might have been the only affordable option left. ]

Ouch! news like these are hefty punches.
[SFW] [literature] [+1 WTF]
[by Paracetamol@7:39amGMT] [0 comments]

Saturday, 9 March 2024

Think you have strange reading habits? Wait until you've seen how Mcluhan reads

quote [ If it?s a frivolous, relaxing book, I read every word. But serious books I read on the right-hand side only ]

That's a cool attitude, actually. (thumb)
[SFW] [literature] [+3]
[by Paracetamol@2:42pmGMT] [3 comments]

Wednesday, 24 January 2024

Scammy AI-Generated Book Rewrites Are Flooding Amazon

quote [ Authors keep finding what appear to be AI-generated imitations and summaries of their books on Amazon. There's little they can do to rein in the rip-offs. ]

In this is guilty artificial intelligence
[SFW] [literature] [+1 WTF]
[by ScoobySnacks@6:00amGMT] [1 comment]

Tuesday, 21 November 2023

Why Do Archivists Get Rid Of Things (And Enjoy It)?

quote [ My message to the public, to administrators, and managers is this: next time you see an archivist discarding papers into the recycling bin, kindly ask how they came to that tough verdict rather than undermining our years of experience and training by gasping in horror at our actions. We would love to show you our thought process. We have the receipts?actually we don?t because we threw those away. ]

cool opinion piece on how collections are to be maintained.
[SFW] [literature] [+1 Interesting]
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Monday, 13 November 2023

?It never ends?: the book club that spent 28 years reading Finnegans Wake

quote [ Fialka emphasises that media reports saying his group has ?finished? the book are wrong. ?We didn?t end. The last sentence of the book ends midsentence and then it picks up at the front of the book. It?s cyclical. It never ends.?
[...]
?There is no next book,? Fialka told me. ?We?re only reading one book. Forever.? ]

Only the second oldest single-book bookclub in existence
[SFW] [literature] [+5 Good]
[by slaytanik@1:00pmGMT] [4 comments]

Friday, 3 November 2023

Shitposting as public pedagogy

quote [ By producing turbulence within social media, shitposting can contribute to the public pedagogies of social media that mirror the goals of critical media literacy education. ]

Pretty interresting read actually, if very dense with academic wording.
[SFW] [literature] [+3 Interesting]
[by Paracetamol@1:18pmGMT] [3 comments]

Friday, 29 September 2023

Free Speech and Bad Meats: The Domestic Labour of Reading in Milton?s Areopagitica

quote [ Does a healthy intellectual culture resemble a battlefield or a kitchen? Revisiting Milton?s Areopagitica, a tract often championed by today?s free speech absolutists, Katie Kadue finds a debt to the work of early modern housewives. In their labours to preserve food and transform it into wholesome cuisine, Milton saw an analogue for how the reading public might digest books ? good and bad alike ? into nourishing ideas. ]

Free speech expensive as a muthafucka
[SFW] [literature] [+1 Interesting]
[by ScoobySnacks@5:02amGMT] [0 comments]

Sunday, 24 September 2023

The Project Gutenberg Open Audiobook Collection

quote [ Thousands of free and open audiobooks powered by Microsoft AI ]

Project Gutenberg has uploaded 4800 public domain works as audio books to their podcast stream.

[SFW] [literature] [+3 Good]
[by Menchi@12:42amGMT] [1 comment]

Sunday, 10 September 2023

The Berkeley Hotel hostage

quote [ There were two bedrooms. The office shipped across a case of wine for me, and cases of manuscripts, so that I would be able to work. And I moved in. I remember putting Douglas in the smaller of the two bedrooms because I was extremely pissed off. ]

This counts as ?literature?, yeah?

thumb is New Old Stock

[SFW] [literature] [+3 Interesting]
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