@fgraver@hcommons.socialI stopped buying books (or anything, really) from Amazon years ago, when it became apparent the working conditions at their many processing centres are appalling and they were actively busting unions. I have never regretted that stance, and I have always been able to find the books, etc. I need from other sources.
I hope more authors — and big name ones too — will follow this lead.
#BoycottAmazon
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotToday I have procrastinated by rearranging books. I have far too many for such a small house.
(Doing this reminded me of a piece by a #Palestinian academic I read recently. He has just started teaching again, but all his books have been lost or destroyed. To be without my books would be very hard for me)
@UP8@mastodon.social🪼 How the Discovery of Single-Celled Marine Organisms Resulted in One of the Most Influential Illustrated Books Ever Published
https://lithub.com/how-the-discovery-of-single-celled-marine-organis…
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.socialIf you liked the AppleTV series, Slow Horses, I recommend reading the books. There are some minor and some major departures. I just finished no. 7, Slough House. They haven’t got that far yet in the series. I’m thoroughly enjoying the books. I have to put them down at 9 o’clock, 2 hours before I go to bed. And I have to wait a few days, well, a week, between books. A sort of palate cleanse. More like decompressing, tbh. Herron pulled a switch at the end that floored me.
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.debookcrossing: BookCrossing ratings (2005)
Two bipartite networks representing people and the books they have interacted with, from the BookCrossing website. Nodes represent users and books, and an edge connects a user to a book they have interacted with. The file book_implicit is unweighted; edge weights in book_ratings give the rating a user assigned to a book.
This network has 445801 nodes and 1149739 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Unweighted, Weighted
@StephenRees@mas.toDo You Write Your Name In Books? via @… https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2026/01/09/Write-Name-In-Books/?u…
@markhburton@mstdn.socialGreat news.
Akenfield is wonderful book, as was the BBC film based on it (possibly available at BFI).
British Library acquires archive of rural life writer and essayist Ronald Blythe | Books | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jan
@LillyHerself@Mastodon.social"Heavy Weather", a Bruce Sterling classic (eBook) for 99p
(I also discovered that my paperback copy is worth over £100, how crazy is that?)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Heavy-Weather-Bruce-Sterling-ebook/dp/B089JY53S7?s=books
@stefan@gardenstate.socialJust finished The Way of Kings.
while the writing was good and the characters were good it's such a poorly plotted book that it becomes unenjoyable.
Very little happens over 800 pages and while I love character development it's no excuse for how slow this moves. I would have enjoyed this at 500 pages. At 1000 I don't even want to read more.
#books
@weltenkreuzer@social.tchncs.deAls jemand mit chronisch schlechtem Gedächtnis für Handlungs- und Charakterdetails wünsche ich mir so ein Feature seit Jahren.
Aber lasst das doch bitte von den Autor*innen schreiben und bezahlt sie idealerweise noch dafür. Oder crowdsourced das irgendwie. Aber doch bitte, bitte nicht per KI ...
…
@catsalad@infosec.exchangeOnly the most refined and sophisticated books make it to my coffee table 🧐
@newstik@social.heise.deFugg. Google Books has been redesigned, the snippets are so small now that they are unreadable. Even the cover pages of books are tiny now. Classic Google Books is still available, but will be turned off.
#Google #GoogleBooks
@Techmeme@techhub.social
@brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.orgproject idea (possibly using AI): record a take of songs from old sheet music books
Starting with something like the Grange book of sheet music below and record them ... Apparently the music can get to midi via Play Score 2, and other programs can could sing the lyrics.
or better yet, if anyone wants to perform the songs and upload them to the archive, you could link it into a review of the book.
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCowboys still near top of all-time postseason record books, but others gaining fast https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/01/13/cowboys-all-time-postseason-appearance-records/88162842007/
@brian_gettler@mas.toOur university library has one of the cooler archival fonds around: the Syd Bolton Collection. It's comprised of almost 14,000 video games and hundreds of consoles and systems, along with over 5,000 issues of game magazines, hundreds of books and literature, peripherals, and related technology, materials, and documents. It is one of the largest collections of its kind in the world and the largest known in Canada.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialAmazon rolls out Ask This Book to the Kindle iOS app, letting readers ask questions about plot or characters; authors can't opt out (Will McCurdy/PCMag)
https://www.pcmag.com/news/kindles-new-ai-feature-can-answer-questions-about-yo…
@relcfp@mastodon.socialThe Pittsburgh Review of Books #acrel https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/01/09/the-pittsburgh-review-of-books
@hacksilon@infosec.exchangeLovely article about the magic of physical #books in Asterisk Magazine:
> Kalman is exquisitely attuned to the magic of physical books. In fact, she includes the instructions and ingredients for another type of spell in The Principles of Uncertainty.
>
> Attached on a perforated edge is a folded map of the world, drawn by her mother. “Either put it on the wall,” suggests…
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caThis is a really really nice interview with Canadian Children's Book author Robert Munsch. It's his "last hurrah”. He's living with dementia and parkinson’s.
He's going to be leaving (MAID) at some point (not soon) but there are 50 more books that will be released after he has passed.
He just seems like a wonderful guy…
#Books #Munsch #CBC
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.7009124
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioIt holds maybe 2% of our books 🫣
https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115708869159516459
@june_thalia_michael@literatur.social#EroticMusings Week 33: Is creating erotica an erotic act in itself? What part, if any, does your own arousal play in creating or evaluating your work?
Adding some ace-spec representation, because some of us ace-specs also like erotica. For me (focused exclusively on books, comics and drawings) it's either about aesthetic ("the lines on this butt are neat and the slime tent…
@cdamian@rls.socialAnother year, another bunch of books.
I spend most of the year binging through thriller series that I had already had started in 2024.
The books I really liked were the newest book from the Slough House series, the spy novel The Persian, and Fundamentals of Software Architecture (even if I didn't finish it).
https://
@vform@openbiblio.socialLibraries open their archives to train AI chatbots with books spanning centuries of human knowledge | Milwaukee Independent
https://www.milwaukeeindependent.com/newswire/libraries-open-archives-train-ai-chatbot…
@callunavulgaris@mastodon.scotWhile I'm wittering on about #books, these are two of my to-read piles. One is in a bookcase as I knew I'd be a while getting round to them. I bought those for 50p a pop at a Christmas bazaar. They often have some mid-century gems but not this time. The other is by the bed, the Active Pile. The top three are proofs sent to a bookshop in town which offers them to
@askesis@qoto.org8 vezes em que cientistas morreram por seus experimentos
@… https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_org/115541933159141939
@vrandecic@mas.toErich von Däniken died today at the age of 90. I know, I know what most of you are going to say, but in my teenage years, his books had a profound influence on me (amusingly, I encountered it first in their Serbo-Croatian translation, maybe my first "real" book I read in Croatian). More than the ancient alien hypothesis, his books took me to many fascinating corners of the world, be it in the Americas, in India, Sub-Saharan Africa, or the English countryside. 1/3
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deedit_wikibooks: Wikipedia book edits (2010)
Two bipartite user-page networks extracted from Wikipedia, about books. A user connects to a page if that user edited that page. Edits (edges) are timestamped. Edge weights represent counts of the number of edits.
This network has 1671 nodes and 2861 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Multigraph, Timestamps
<…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAmazon rolls out Ask This Book to the Kindle iOS app, letting readers ask questions about plot or characters; authors can't opt out (Will McCurdy/PCMag)
https://www.pcmag.com/news/kindles-new-ai-feature-can-answer-questions-about-yo…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comJohn Fetterman makes a case for himself. It's not very convincing. (Karen Heller/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/11/11/john-fetterman-unfettered-memoir-book-review/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251111/p74#a251111p74
@brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org"The Value of Public Domain Day"
a thoughtful piece on the economics and the loss by our overzealous locking up of our culture.
https://www.authorsalliance.org/2026/01/01/the-value-of-public-domain-day/
but please celebra…
@h2g2bob@mastodon.dbatley.comCan't get enough of the Finish It! podcast. It's about Choose Your Own Adventure books, and the effort put in to music and preparation is very impressive.
https://finishitpod.com/2019/01/08/ep-38-space-vampire-week-one-taking-back-space-force/
@Duckbill4994@social.linux.pizzaAI is NOT "disruptive" technology. At least not when used with "horse and carriage vs the car" and "the printing press" and "the internet" in mind.
In fact, when the car came, it was a democratizing thing, it was disruptive, as in: the old ways where cast aside plus EVERYONE could eventually afford to own such a disruptive device.
The printing press made books available to everyone, not just the insanely wealthy few that could afford it. Th…
@cdarwin@c.im
@andycarolan@social.lolAnyone have any thoughts on why Apple Books is only downloading pages of a book AS I reach them? It's leading to a frustrating 7 second delay on the page appearing as it downloads individually!
#AppleBooks #Apple
@david@boles.xyzThe Page Isn’t Dead, Your Attention Is Under Siege
Every few years we are invited to attend the same funeral. Someone declares that nobody reads anymore, that the printed page is finished, that books are an aging technology destined to become a museum object while the living culture migrates to earbuds and short video. It is a tempting story because it flatters our sense that we are witnessing a clean break with the past, a decisive turn of the wheel.
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaVery nice list of books on Syndicalism!
#Reddit
@islamoyankee@mastodon.socialReally excited to see that my #book on the #MsMarvel is on sale for $26, for the hardcover and softcover each.
https://www.
@steve@s.yelvington.comQin Shi Huang, the first emperor of China, burned the books and had scholars killed as he tightened his grip on the former warring kingdoms and set out to restart history with himself as the prime creator. Thousands of years later, Saloth Sâr, a Cambodian schoolteacher, renamed himself Pol Pot and declared a new "Year Zero" as he began murdering everyone with an education (or even wearing eyeglasses). Destroying the past isn't just a literary device from Orwell. It's how t…
@johnhobbs@mstdn.caExploring groundbreaking scientific inventions is utterly captivating! A single discovery can transform our understanding and alter our future. I am perpetually intrigued by books and documentaries that shine a light on these pivotal moments. Does anyone else find these as compelling as I do? 🌍🔬
@markhburton@mstdn.socialSeries of yellowing clippings that were on our wall
1
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deedit_wikibooks: Wikipedia book edits (2010)
Two bipartite user-page networks extracted from Wikipedia, about books. A user connects to a page if that user edited that page. Edits (edges) are timestamped. Edge weights represent counts of the number of edits.
This network has 1135 nodes and 2572 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Multigraph, Timestamps
<…
@oligneisti@social.linux.pizzaFrom: Equal Rites - Terry Pratchett
> ... although she was opposed to books on strict moral grounds, since she had heard that many of them were written by dead people and therefore it stood to reason reading them would be as bad as necromancy.
#books
#TerryPratchett
@outer@mas.to“…TSMC announced they have a spintronic memory chip with an access time of 1ns and a storage time of a decade. This means faster mistakes with longer regrets, basically the epitome of progress.”-Sabine Hossenfelder, physicist, author of science books, and host of a science YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/@SabineHossenfelder
@lpryszcz@genomic.socialOn Monday we're flying for holidays to Vietnam. While planning the trip, I've rediscovered #epub for your
@heiseonline@social.heise.de
@ethanwhite@hachyderm.ioThere are many key lessons for higher education in @…'s Enshittification. One is about mission:
"...the double edged nature of vocational awe. Sure Googlers [faculty] had been willing to pull long hours, putting work before personal life and health, in order to realize the company's [university's] mission, but the quid pro quo those workers expected was for the company [university] to take that mission as seriously as they did."
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374619329/enshittification/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialAmazon is testing an AI tool called Kindle Translate that automatically translates books into other languages, for authors that self-publish on the platform (Lawrence Bonk/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/ai/amazon-is-test
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deedit_wikibooks: Wikipedia book edits (2010)
Two bipartite user-page networks extracted from Wikipedia, about books. A user connects to a page if that user edited that page. Edits (edges) are timestamped. Edge weights represent counts of the number of edits.
This network has 5267 nodes and 12212 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Multigraph, Timestamps
…
@mia@hcommons.socialVia John Baker on the #FF2025 channel on the AI4LAM Slack: 'Cataloging books with LLMs: using out of copyright books as training data' https://medium.com/digirati-ch/catalog
@ronaldsnijder@mastodon.socialChallenge accepted: A reader wrote a program to find fake references in books https://retractionwatch.com/2025/10/28/challenge-accepted-a-reader-wrote-a-program-to-find-fake-references-in-books/
@anneroth@systemli.social"In the budget speech this year, commission president Ursula von der Leyen made a bold statement that AI is expected to approach human reasoning by next year."
Die Nächste, nach (bzw. vor) Wildberger.
"Surprised by this statement, I asked the commission to provide me with documents .."
"The commission’s response was not filled with references to the scientific literature. Instead, the Commission referred to the essays and books by tech CEOs."<…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioRE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115510783495155340
One thing that, to my surprise, sells really quickly is old computer books from the 1980s (stuff like "Machine Programs for the Apple II").
I guess perhaps they're cheap to ship (in the US, the post office has a special low rate for packages with books or music) and nice small treats for people?
Regardless, it's a nice win, I free up space and get some pocket money, the books go to someone who will love and care for them. :)
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCowboys WR George Pickens set to make history in Week 15 https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/cowboys-wr-george-pickens-set-to-make-history-in-week-15
@scott@carfree.cityHaymarket Books has ebooks on sale for $2 until Nov. 7. Some of my favorite books published by them are:
Abolish Rent: on the potential of tenant organizing
Let This Radicalize You: a guide to activism over the long haul
No Cop City, No Cop World: lessons from Atlanta's Cop City fight
Perfect Victims: unpacks anti-Palestinian narratives you may not realize you've internalized
@glauber@writing.exchange@…
I'm not sure you're still around here in Mastodon.
I finally read Automatic Noodle (which i had pre-ordered 🙂), and it's so good! Thank you.
I just realized i have read all your fiction books, besides several non fiction. And enjoyed all of them.
But Automatic Noodle is such a warm and generous story. Really loved it.
@mapto@qoto.orgI think I now know where to draw the line between "good" and "bad" #GenAI, and possibly (or rather obviously) the same for #machineLearning. It's simply whether the input data has been constructed rigorously. Put this way it's the most obvious statement ever, but somehow
@cheryanne@aus.socialIn The Good Books With Luke Bateman
Each week, host Luke Bateman shares the books that have shaped his world, from timeless classics to buzzy bestsellers...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/in-the-good-books-2/
…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAmazon is testing an AI tool called Kindle Translate that automatically translates books into other languages, for authors that self-publish on the platform (Lawrence Bonk/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/ai/amazon-is-test
@chiraag@mastodon.online
@bici@mastodon.social"Google showing a wall of ads before any real results. Facebook promising to “never spy on you,” before evolving into a mass surveillance apparatus. Amazon’s highest-ranked products buoyed by fake reviews."
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/bo
@dhuyvetter@mastodon.social
@Xavier@infosec.exchangeHey there #bookstodon folks. Would love help finding my next #audiobook adventure. I just finished the latest book in "Dungeon Crawler Carl" and, while amazingly fun, it reminded me that I try to only read series that have endings. I hate waiting for the next book!
So what are…
@wvmierlo@zirk.usOn 19 November, Christopher Ohge (IES) will deliver a talk on his new project, The Bow in the Cloud: A Digital Edition and Network Analysis of Antislavery Literature, at LETS: Loughborough Editing and Textual Scholarship research group. This hybrid even starts at 4.15pm in Brockington Building (B1.11) on the Loughborough University campus and on Teams. DM for online link.
@maxheadroom@hub.uckermark.socialFinally updated by #Bookworm instance to the latest release: https://books.mxhdr.net/about
/cc @…
@raiders@darktundra.xyzNFL Week 9 betting recap: Underdogs boost books, burn bettors https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/betting/nfl-week-9-betting-recap-underdogs-boost-books-burn-bettors-3532059/
@NFL@darktundra.xyzHoliday gift guide 2025: Something for every sports fan on your list https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6834129/2025/12/01/sports-fan-holiday-gift-guide-books-apparel-kids/
@brian_gettler@mas.toHere's a good chunk of the assigned books for my grad seminar on Canadian history - a few golden oldies, but mostly newer stuff. I've got a good group and am looking forward to a fine term.
#histodons
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
The disappearance and return to print of John M. Ford.
https://slate.com/culture/2019/11/john-ford-science-fiction-fantasy-books.html
saved 2019-11-16
@relcfp@mastodon.socialStudiolo at the Pittsburgh Review of Books #acrel https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/01/09/studiolo-at-the-pittsburgh-review-of-books
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaAnarcho-syndicalist. non-binary person. they/them, also bisexual.
I took down one of my Moomin posters and hung up my two favorite flags in my living room instead. It feels good making my own place look like me.
I know my mom doesn’t like it, but this is my apartment and I’m not going to hide who I am just to make someone else comfortable.
:bisexual_pride: 🏳️⚧️ :genderfluid_flag: :nonbinary_flag: :heart_trans: 🏳️🌈
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCowboys WR George Pickens set to make history in Week 15 https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/cowboys-wr-george-pickens-set-to-make-history-in-week-15
@kazys@mastodon.socialApple wouldn't let me create a developer account from my appleid because it said that my name was made up. Hey assholes. You can ask ChatGPT who I am, or Claude, or look up my web site, or my books. That is so racist. I'm sorry I'm not as white as all the people who work at Apple.
@timbray@cosocial.caAt the public library.
#Halloween #photography #books
@fgraver@hcommons.social‘It is the scariest of times’: Margaret Atwood on defying Trump, banned books – and her score-settling memoir https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/nov/01/margaret-atwood-interview-handmaids-tale-author-new…
@cdarwin@c.imProud to see UC Press books recognized across these best-of lists.
From pandemic response and climate history to teaching,
art, and the politics of equity,
these books reflect the kind of publishing we believe in:
books that challenge assumptions,
recover overlooked lives,
and bring complex ideas into public conversation.
Bold, field-defining scholarship for the public good
@david@boles.xyzThe Dying Grove: A Novel Born from the Collision of Joyce and Mycorrhiza
Some books are written. Others are grown. "The Dying Grove" belongs to the second category, and that distinction is not metaphor but method. This novel, the first in a new series called Fractional Fiction, emerged from an experiment in literary hybridization: what happens when you take the formal architecture of modernist masters and seed it with contemporary scientific research? The result is…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialLibraries scramble to find another print book provider after Baker & Taylor, once the largest US distributor of print books to public libraries, shuts down (NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2026/01/07/nx-s1-5668426/libraries-books-distributor-closing
@UP8@mastodon.social😱 A Guide to Traversing the Furthest Reaches of the Alien Franchise
http://www.vulture.com/article/best-alien-books-video-games-comic-books-tv-show.html
#movies
@NFL@darktundra.xyzHoliday gift guide 2025: Something for every sports fan on your list https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6834129/2025/12/01/sports-fan-holiday-gift-guide-books-apparel-kids/
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.debookcrossing: BookCrossing ratings (2005)
Two bipartite networks representing people and the books they have interacted with, from the BookCrossing website. Nodes represent users and books, and an edge connects a user to a book they have interacted with. The file book_implicit is unweighted; edge weights in book_ratings give the rating a user assigned to a book.
This network has 445801 nodes and 1149739 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Unweighted, Weighted
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialCircana BookScan: US print book sales hit 762.4M units in 2025, up 0.3% YoY, settling at levels higher than before the pandemic; graphic novels saw a 9.2% rise (Jim Milliot/Publishers Weekly)
http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-top
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaI have autism, and I tend to forget things quite often. That’s part of why I’m currently reading Rudolf Rocker – Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice for the fifth time.
If you’d like to read it too, you can find it in my “Entry to Left-Wing Anarchist Reading” document, which I’ll keep updating over time with new books, media, and resources.
Docs:
@Techmeme@techhub.socialResearchers say GPT 4.1, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and Grok 3 can reproduce long excerpts from books they were trained on when strategically prompted (Alex Reisner/The Atlantic)
https://www.
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io“But software design is just vibes!”
No, it’s absolutely not. It’s an extremely well researched topic with an abundance of studies, literature and scientific articles over the last 75 years.
Here’s some books to get you started. They’re over 30 years old.
@cdarwin@c.imS-cones (which respond to short wavelengths) are very few in the fovea center
so causing a so-called S-cone blind spot
(Williams et al., 1981)
but they peak in number on the foveal slope at about 12% of the population
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK11515/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSurvey of 2,203 US adults: 59% say they read at least one book in 2025; readers who prefer e-books report more reading than those who prefer print or audiobooks (David H. Montgomery/YouGov's The Surveyor)
https://yougovamerica.substack.com/p/most-americans-didnt…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.depolbooks: Political books network (2004)
A network of books about U.S. politics published close to the 2004 U.S. presidential election, and sold by Amazon.com. Edges between books represent frequent copurchasing of those books by the same buyers. The network was compiled by V. Krebs and is unpublished.
This network has 105 nodes and 441 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted, Metadata
@cdarwin@c.im @Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe 2026 Ockham New Zealand Book Award disqualified two books citing AI-made covers; their publisher says AI's rise has put the industry in "uncharted waters" (Jin Yu Young/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/books/new-zealand-ocham…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.depolbooks: Political books network (2004)
A network of books about U.S. politics published close to the 2004 U.S. presidential election, and sold by Amazon.com. Edges between books represent frequent copurchasing of those books by the same buyers. The network was compiled by V. Krebs and is unpublished.
This network has 105 nodes and 441 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted, Metadata
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe US book business faces challenges including AI slop, but print sales and e-book and audiobook revenue were stable in 2025, and 422 stores joined the ABA (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/books/b
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.debookcrossing: BookCrossing ratings (2005)
Two bipartite networks representing people and the books they have interacted with, from the BookCrossing website. Nodes represent users and books, and an edge connects a user to a book they have interacted with. The file book_implicit is unweighted; edge weights in book_ratings give the rating a user assigned to a book.
This network has 445801 nodes and 1149739 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Unweighted, Weighted
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialChernin Group agrees to take a minority stake in Entangled Publishing, a publisher of romance-fantasy books; sources say the deal values Entangled at ~$400M (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/chernin
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialResearchers say GPT 4.1, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and Grok 3 can reproduce long excerpts from books they were trained on when strategically prompted (Alex Reisner/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/01/ai-memorization-research/6…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dedouban: Douban friendship network (2009)
A friendship network among users on Douban.com, a Chinese website providing recommendations for books, music, and movies.
This network has 154908 nodes and 327162 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/douban…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.debookcrossing: BookCrossing ratings (2005)
Two bipartite networks representing people and the books they have interacted with, from the BookCrossing website. Nodes represent users and books, and an edge connects a user to a book they have interacted with. The file book_implicit is unweighted; edge weights in book_ratings give the rating a user assigned to a book.
This network has 445801 nodes and 1149739 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Unweighted, Weighted
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.depolbooks: Political books network (2004)
A network of books about U.S. politics published close to the 2004 U.S. presidential election, and sold by Amazon.com. Edges between books represent frequent copurchasing of those books by the same buyers. The network was compiled by V. Krebs and is unpublished.
This network has 105 nodes and 441 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted, Metadata
