@Rob_Oost@mastodon.social2026-02-26 12:00:18
@Rob_Oost@mastodon.social2026-02-26 12:00:18
@hikingdude@mastodon.social2026-02-25 19:38:54
hmm when there is a book in #Openlibrary (to add it to #bookwyrm) but I only find the english edition but not the german (which also has a different ISBN -- should I add it as a separate book?
This time even the german an english title are the same.
@tgpo@social.linux.pizza2026-02-21 14:33:15
I was today years old when I realized the cover of the High Fidelity #book is not a guy wearing sunglasses, but rather a guy holding spoons over his eyes.
😎
@emd@cosocial.ca2025-12-23 22:09:56
I was gonna do some work today, but I had to finish my book.
#bookstodon
@jake4480@c.im2026-01-21 04:40:35
@lukasweidinger@gruene.social2026-01-06 14:41:10
Dear @… ,
I’ve just finished your latest #book “Moral Ambition” with that intimidating back cover text as my first one this year. I found the table of contents populistically appalling and the actual content really
@theDuesentrieb@social.linux.pizza2026-02-19 14:48:28
While it is fun having the progress shown as 3500 / 13488 with The Complete Wheel of Time ebook, I wanted to enjoy the individual covers as well.
Luckily Calibre with the epub-split plugin made that rather painless, just some metadata adjustments.
Also kudos to TOR publishing for intentionally providing a DRM-free epub, making this possible (without having to remove it beforehand)
#book
@bourgwick@heads.social2025-12-14 23:04:59
farewell to my one true book format. #books
@outer@mas.to2025-12-04 01:39:24
This a great book! Teri's a great author! This is a great price!
If someone tries to charge you more for it, don't go there.
#Bookstodon #Humanity #GreatWriting
@jensilber@mastodon.social2026-01-09 19:10:59
Copyright / trademark question:
Why is it that an author can refer to a trademarked product in a book at their whim, but when that book gets adapted into a film or television show the product cannot be included without approval of the trademark owner?
Tagging #bookstodon because that might catch the attention of a writer or editor who knows the answer.
@stefan@gardenstate.social2025-12-13 21:05:40
Just 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
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2025-12-10 17:14:52
This 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
@Philantrop@mastodon.mailstation.de2026-01-24 15:55:18
The Car Share, by Zoe Brisby
#Adventure #Book #Humour #Meh
@Rob_Oost@mastodon.social2026-02-16 14:11:45
@PwnieFan@infosec.exchange2026-01-12 15:47:59
Wrote a chapter for the first time in a while. Work on the next book is slow, but I'm glad I took the time. Whatever you do that fulfills you, I hope everyone reading this is finding a little time for joy in between the chaos. #amwriting #bookstodon
@callunavulgaris@mastodon.scot2026-01-09 13:55:09
Stolen from @… as I thought it was such a great idea: a thread of all the books I read in a year.
Leonard and Hungry Paul by Ronan Hession, read for a #bookgroup that unanimously loved it. Set in modern day Ireland, it's a contemplative and gently humorou…
@emd@cosocial.ca2026-01-17 19:26:33
This book is so fun, and I’m only a little bit into it: #bookstodon
@bourgwick@heads.social2025-12-14 19:18:41
recent-ish reading/rereading. #books
@Philantrop@mastodon.mailstation.de2026-01-24 14:29:15
The Vanishing Place, by Zoe Rankin
#Adventure #Book #Crime #Meh
@Philantrop@mastodon.mailstation.de2026-02-23 16:51:09
@mariyadelano@hachyderm.io2026-02-03 16:32:09
Speaking of #taxes, I just got this #book from the office (it’s published by my employer) and I’m so excited to read it.
From the blurb: “taxes are the public’s most powerful weapon in the fight for a real democracy”
Link if anyone wants: #Taxation #nonfiction #books #democracy
@pre@boing.world2026-02-04 13:41:14
Read "How To Survive In A Science Fiction Universe" by Charles Yu, a novel about a time-machine repair-man getting stuck in a loop during his search for his father.
First person narrated, in a fictional universe in which you can travel in time but you can't change anything about the past.
It was fun and an easy read, lots of interludes about the physics of fictional universes and explanations of acausal items causing their own existence, including the book itself that you read in your hands.
Its nice if you'd like something with experimental narrative form twisting the usual story format.
#reading #books #charlesYu
@Rob_Oost@mastodon.social2026-01-28 07:48:31
@Philantrop@mastodon.mailstation.de2026-02-16 16:21:55
These Silent Woods, by Kimi Cunningham Grant
#Adventure #Book #Meh #Mystery
@Philantrop@mastodon.mailstation.de2026-02-15 12:57:43
@Philantrop@mastodon.mailstation.de2026-01-31 15:27:37
We Do What We Do in the Dark, by Michelle Hart
#Book #ComingofAge #LGBTQ #Meh
