@marcel@waldvogel.familyThere was a news message going viral a few days ago, that most published books sell fewer than a dozen copies.
Here is a reply from two years ago debunking this. And explaining what "published", "book" and "sale" all could mean. (But none of the useful combinations support that claim.)
#books
@bourgwick@heads.socialrecent-ish reading/rereading. #books @…
@ronaldsnijder@mastodon.social#boeken #books
The new Dutch government wants to increase VAT on books to 21%, I signed a petition against this plan.
https://boekenpet…
@pre@boing.worldThought I'd try reading a Star Trek novel so I went for The Antares Maelstrom by Greg Cox.
It had good characterizations of the familiar star-ship crew but felt slow and poorly paced. I guess coz it's so much longer than a 50 minute TV show.
The way the Federation has supposedly done away with money and need makes a gold-rush story difficult to fathom. How can you have a gold-rush ("pangeum" rather than actual gold) of people heading to a mining-planet if nobody uses money or has any personal wealth?
By making the planet only a potential Federation member, it turns out.
Then everyone can act like a Ferengi.
Anyway, it was okay, but didn't really feel much like watching the old TV shows did.
#reading #books #starTrek
@usul@piaille.fr4 #books for the price of one.
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@DodoTheDev@front-end.socialBook 4 of Discworld done. Another great book I thoroughly enjoyed. I'll move on to the next one either tonight or tomorrow.
#amreading #Discworld #bookstodon
@trochee@dair-community.social
@stev3yd@social.linux.pizzaI am loving Brandon Sanderson's #TheStormlightArchive series! Kaladin is my spirit character - I find myself cheering him on through every trial and triumph. The world-building is simply phenomenal! I am on Oathbringer right now. I've never felt so immersed in a fantasy world before. What is your favorite fantasy book/series?
@UP8@mastodon.social
@outer@mas.toThis sounds supercool! I'll keep trying to get it from libraries. I don't want to steal it...yet.
Intersection of #Science #Arts #Books #Happiness
@antiall3s@kolektiva.socialMy current top ten favorite anarchist books of all time:
Louise Michel - Red Virgin
Peter Kropotkin - The Conquest of Bread
Ursula K Le Guin - The Dispossessed
Fredy Perlman - Against His-story Against Leviathan
p.m. - bolo’bolo
Hakim Bey - TAZ
David Graeber - Direct Action
Peter Gelderloos - Worshipping Power
Comitee invisible - L’insurrection que vient
Cindy Milstein - Anarchism and its Aspirations
Now you 👇
#Anarchism #Anarchist #Books
@ronaldsnijder@mastodon.social"Well, for one, we can start by saying that #books and #reading and our collections are still vital to ALL of the work we do. #Libraries offer more programs and services than people realize."<…
@adam@windbag.orgWhat is your strategy for selecting your next book to read?
#books #bookstodon
@PwnieFan@infosec.exchangePresents for beta readers have arrived! #bookstodon https://www.megancarney.com/books.html
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.euI don't have enough information to argue with the choices this bookstagrammer made when they decided how to present a book called A Bird's Song. They assert it's a banger.
#books #bookstadon
@Kencf618033@social.linux.pizza#Bookstodon / #BookSky challenge: Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 6: Anatomy of Evil
by Ruth Nanda Anshen
@DodoTheDev@front-end.socialAbout to dive into Discworld book number 4: Mort. Looking forward to this one.
#Discworld #bookstodon #books
@laimis@mstdn.socialOK! My reading slots are empty! All the #books that were in progress have been finished, pondered, and reviewed.
Of course, this doesn't last a long time. I always have an unread digital book "pile" in reserves. Let's see what I feel like picking up next...
@cybeardjm@masto.aiFrom the vault: 2018
Road Map for Revolutionaries: Resistance, Activism, and Advocacy for All
by Elisa Camahort Page, Carolyn Gerin, and Jamia Wilson
#Books
@bunnyhero@mstdn.cai am quite enjoying this recent purchase. i only wish there were more screenshots of the games in action (i.e. the software), but there's plenty of hardware photos. there are more machines i hadn't heard of than i was expecting! #videogames #books
@Defiance@sfba.social
@MrBerard@pilote.meIrvine Welsh - Choose Life #Books #Trainspotting
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgA new update to my #books2024 list. This time 2 books about the simple pleasure of sitting round a bonfire. (Both in Danish, not sure if there are English translations available)
#BooksOf2024
http://sternaparadisaea.net/about-me/the-first-book-of-2024-is-done-the-fish-can-sing-by-halldor-laxness/
@seav@en.osm.townNot looking forward to a heavy read, but confronting this very recent history is important.
#SomePeopleNeedKilling #PatriciaEvangelista #books
@gratianriter@bildung.socialIch hab übrigens den Vatertag gewonnen:
#bookstodon
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyzsystems, accountability, capitalism, books
Good thread on the book "The Unaccountability Machine", inc the concept of
"Accountability sinks":
"the customer service agent who can do nothing to help yet must receive the signal from the customer that something is wrong"
#systems #accountability #capitalism #books
@Kencf618033@social.linux.pizza#Bookstodon / #BookSky challenge: Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 5: The Parables of Peanuts by Robert L. Short
@PwnieFan@infosec.exchangeRecently finished Everyone on the Moon is Essential Personnel by Julian Jarboe. I can't say I loved every story in this collection. But there are some moments when these stories just punch you in the gut. In a good way? Anyway, here are a few quotes to hunt for if you read it.
#bookstodon #BooksWorthReading
@mlawton@mstdn.socialFinished "Outland", Dennis E. Taylor's first novel and the first of the two books that make up the Quantum Earth series.
A light and fun read. Don't take it too seriously and enjoy the ride. 4/5 stars.
#Bookstodon
@Kencf618033@social.linux.pizza#Bookstodon / #BookSky challenge: Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 4: The Life of the Mind by Hannah Arendt (One-Volume Edition)
@snerkrabbledauber@mas.to @DodoTheDev@front-end.social3rd Discworld book done and an excellent read. I don't see why I should stop, book 4 will start tomorrow.
#Discworld #amReading #bookstodon
@jake4480@c.im75 years ago today (June 8) in 1949, George Orwell's 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' was published.
#books #history #GeorgeOrwell #fiction
@stev3yd@social.linux.pizzaFinished Stephen King's Billy Summers book and loved it! My first SK book too. On to the next book! #books #stephenking
@Kencf618033@social.linux.pizza#Bookstodon / #BookSky challenge: Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 3: The End of History and The Last Man by Francis Fukuyama
@Kencf618033@social.linux.pizza#Bookstodon / #BookSky challenge: Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 2: The Gnostics by Jacques Lacarriere
@cybeardjm@masto.aiA #MustHave book
#CyberSecurity #Books #Humour
@DodoTheDev@front-end.socialOk, so I only read 25% of Equal Rights so far, but I deeply love it. The idea that earthly (homeopathic) medicine is Women's magic, and the "silly", "flamboyant" magic is mens magic resonates deeply with me, and I was told "he found his voice" in this book was dead on. It was like books 1 & 2 he was testing the waters of how absurd he could make it, and went all in on book 3.
@Kencf618033@social.linux.pizzaBy way of KateOfMind@mastodon.social
#Bookstodon / #BookSky challenge: Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day One: The Dot and the Line – a romance in lower mathematics by Norton Juster
@stev3yd@social.linux.pizza @PwnieFan@infosec.exchangeWent to the library and picked up more books than I have time to read. So the usual. #bookstodon
@Kencf618033@social.linux.pizza#Bookplate project. Provenance unknown (but I might come across it again).
#books
@DodoTheDev@front-end.socialFinished The Colour of Magic and swiftly moving on to book 2: The Light Fantastic.
This is one the quickest I've read any book (the last time being, I believe, the same book). I'm not usually a big reader, or a quick one, but these books seem to be just right for me.
#bookstodon #TerryPrachett
@pre@boing.worldRead Gary Stevenson's book "The Trading Game". Him off of the economics youtube channel who goes on about how inequality will destroy the middle classes and turn society into a new feudalism.
He's pretty cool on economic analysis, and he tells an engaging story too it turns out, about how a poor kid growing up in the shadows of the banks got into a job there and became a millionarie by being the top-ranked trader from the bank, by betting on just that: Society becoming shitter because the rich will own everything and everyone else will have nothing.
The book's more the story of the poor kid becoming the rich trader than economic analysis, so the topic of societal inequality is more backgrounded than preached like on the youtube shows,
It's a good captivating story, and doesn't make me have any sympathy for bankers at all, but the things wrong with the world aren't really the fault of the guys on the trading desks, it's the systems they work for. They don't really understand those sysdtems either in most cases.
#reading #books #garyStevenson #tradingGame
@stev3yd@social.linux.pizzaI am so excited for Wind and Truth! I am glad we are getting a conclusion to the first arc! Love me a completed story arc. #books #fantasy #TheStormlightArchive
@ronaldsnijder@mastodon.socialIf you are interested in #OpenAccess #books, please take a look at the 1012 stakeholder report of #OAPEN and #DOAB
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