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271 Years Before #Pantone, an Artist Mixed and Described Every #Color Imaginable in an 800-Page #Book:

271 Years Before Pantone, an Artist Mixed and Described Every Color Imaginable in an 800-Page Book
In 1692 an artist known only as “A. Boogert” sat down to write a book in Dutch about mixing watercolors. Not only would he begin the book with a bit about the use of color in painting, but would go on to explain how to create certain hues and change the tone by adding one,Continue reading "271 Years Before Pantone, an Artist Mixed and Described Every Color Imaginable in an 800-Page Book"

A guide to a-Shell
#bookmarks

About the book | A guide to a-Shell

A lucky find in my local #book store: the anthology "Flight or Fright" with new and classic stories to work on your fear of flying.
#reading

This is a book recommendation for a good book. I think more people should read it. #bookstodon

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Book of Love:
🎵 Modigliani (Lost in Your Eyes)
#BookofLove
https://cursesforever.bandcamp.com/track/book-of-love-modigliani-lost-in-your-eyes-i-dream-of-jeanne-mix
https://open.spotify.com/track/53yTfRNAwCC7aLGaKlbysJ

Jeg er næsten færdig med en kort historie om Italien og det giver stort indtryk om lige præcis hvor imponerende EU er efter tusinde år af mere eller mindre konstant krig i Europa.
Jeg får også lyst til at starte en ny europæisk bogklub til at lære om vores fælles europæisk naboer samt læse nogle gode bŸger jeg ellers ville aldrig har kommer til. Nogen der har lyst til at komme og læse med i hovedstaden?
Eng:
I’ve almost finished a short history of Italy, and it really brings home just how impressive the EU is after a thousand years of more or less constant war in Europe.
I’m now also keen to join/start a European book club to learn about our fellow European neighbours and read some good books I’d otherwise never get round to. Anyone fancy joining me in or around Copenhagen?
#bookstodon #bogstodon #dkæs

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.

The title goes like this: "The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook".
And basically, that is exactly what you'll get in this #book
It's not the first book on James Cook I read, but Hampton Sides is a very attractive narrator, and he did his homework very well.

the new bio of the clean by richard langston is just tremendous. deepened my love for the clean's music & them as people in every way. soulful & detailed & ecstatic (& sometimes quite sad) oral history of how psychedelic #punk happened in new zealand. #books

Where'd You Go, Bernadette, by Maria Semple
#Adventure #Book #Family #Humour

I don’t think it’s necessary to introduce Gregor Hohpe. I’m a big fan, having read Enterprise Integration Patterns, and I’ve recommended the book ever since.
His latest #book is: "The Software Architect Elevator". Here's my #review

We found this old 1949 #science #book on our shelves; it's a very general thing, with a mix of different articles; but it's pretty fascinating seeing the stuff from then. I mentioned the Agene flour treatement, which I'd not heard of before; but the Palaeomagnetism is fascinating because i…

Just finished "Skating Wilder" written by Brandon Dumais and illustrated by AJ Dungo. It's a really amazing graphic novel history of skateboarding, from the 1960s through to the present. It's got multiple threads from the commercial angle, to the magazines and music, to the individual tricks.
I've never skated myself (never taught myself to balance properly) but I loved Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 as a kid and I still like watching skate videos. I learned a lot of details from this book that I never knew growing up and the way it talks about skating surviving multiple waves of commercialization is inspiring.
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon

Been up cleaning at Room 23 and returning library books so I took a good look at this bookshelf
#photo #photography #bookshelf

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Book of Love:
🎵 I Touch Roses
#BookofLove
https://prepedits.bandcamp.com/track/book-of-love-i-touch-roses-full-bloom-prep-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/54KZBYmE7MUlwxM2bUzSVY

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.
😎

The Island, by Adrian McKinty
#Adventure #Book #Meh #Review

"A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future" by David Attenborough (one of my heroes) is not a book that leaves a warm, fuzzy feeling. The future looks grim if we don't start behaving differently, starting today. Written with clarity and conviction.
#book #goodread

This is my friend's new book, he's in Ireland. I can't put it down, I absolutely love it! #author #books #writingcommunity
Astral Hours (English Edition)

The North Pole. A fascinating, mythical place. When you want to go there, first you take a long history lesson. "After the North Pole". That's exactly what Erling Kagge did writing his fascinating book. And he made it to the pole, walking and skiing.
#book #goodread.

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

If you are a logophile or perhaps a lexophile, or if you watch British TV, you know the name, Susie Dent. She’s got a new book, a mystery, called Guilty by Definition. TBH I’m not a fan of mysteries, but I am a fan of her, so I picked this up when I saw it. 1 chapter in and I’m hooked. Editors at an Oxford dictionary get a letter that references the year the senior editor’s sister disappeared. #bookstodon

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Book of Love:
🎵 Boy
#BookofLove
https://open.spotify.com/track/4FQhTIpf3bnxGsCr0dHhtr

that bittersweet feeling of opening a used book & finding a sweet bookmark from a long-departed bookstore in a faraway place (closed in 1999, according to reddit) #books

Anyone else's head always this busy? I didn't even try to fit all my thoughts into this month's writing newsletter.
https://buttondown.com/megancarney/archive/traps-we-know-and-fall-into-anyway/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Book of Love:
🎵 Boy
#BookofLove
https://evankenney.bandcamp.com/track/the-book-of-love
https://open.spotify.com/track/4FQhTIpf3bnxGsCr0dHhtr

"The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science" by Dava Sobel, one of
my favorite writers since "Longitude".
Not only a brilliant scientist with 2 Nobel prizes, but also a forerunner for women in science, Marie Curie unfortunately only understood the medical risks of radioactivity after it undermined her own health.
#book …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Book of Love:
🎵 Boy
#BookofLove
https://evankenney.bandcamp.com/track/the-book-of-love
https://open.spotify.com/track/4FQhTIpf3bnxGsCr0dHhtr

amazing piece but basically woke up in the middle of the night wondering about the unanswered question here: if book freak richard hell has been in the same wee spot since '74, what does he do when his shelves are full? does he have storage spaces like verlaine? does he deaccession at the strand? #nyc #books

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Book of Love:
🎵 I Touch Roses
#BookofLove
https://prepedits.bandcamp.com/track/book-of-love-i-touch-roses-full-bloom-prep-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/54KZBYmE7MUlwxM2bUzSVY

"Enshittification" by Cory Doctorow describes how once-loved platforms get worse for everyone, and it provides handles to fight it: break up monopolies, enforce antitrust, restore interoperability, and strengthen unions and regulation.
#book #goodread 💩

Wicked Women (D.I. Kim Stone #23), by Angela Marsons
#Book #Crime #Favourite #Mystery

"Have a Bleedin Guess: The Story of Hex Enduction Hour". A whole #book on one album. And after reading, the album is still as unfathomable as before. By Paul Hanley, former drummer of #TheFall
And, of course, a very got reason to listen to some more Fall albums.

Right To Read Day | APRIL 20, 2026 | For Your Freedom To Read. Unite Against
Book Bans. #BookBans https://uniteagainstbookbans.org/right-to-read-day/

Talking to the Dead (Fiona Griffiths #1), by Harry Bingham
#Book #Crime #Meh #Mystery

Sherlock Holmes and the Missing Shakespeare (The Watson Files #1), by J.R. Rain & Chanel Smith
#Book #Crap #Crime

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NewMusicFix
Book of Churches:
🎵 All The Good Things
#BookofChurches
#newRelease 🆕 album
https://bookofchurches.bandcamp.com/track/all-the-good-things
https://open.spotify.com/track/0uGlqYnvpIwL6u7hghBbRL

Alberta Senator @… delivered an excellent speech warning of the harms of online censorship, moral panic, book bans, and the problems with bans and age verifications as Senate Bill S-209 moves from the Senate to the House of Commons.
Thank you Senator! I could not agree more!
#OnlineHarms #AgeVerification #CanPoli #CdnPoli #SoberFirstThought #Canada #Censorship #BookBan #Alberta #ABPoli #DanielleSmith

The Good Turn (Detective Cormac Reilly #3), by Dervla McTiernan
#Book #Crime #Mystery

The Girl in the Ice (Detective Erika Foster #1), by Robert Bryndza
#Book #Crime #Meh #Mystery

The Dutch House, by Ann Patchett
#Book #ComingofAge #Family #HistoricalFiction

To Sir Phillip, With Love (Bridgertons #5), by Julia Quinn
#Book #Crap #HistoricalFiction

Deep End, by Ali Hazelwood
#Book #Humour #Review #Romance

Two Can Play, by Ali Hazelwood
#Book #Humour #Novella #Review

The Ruin (Detective Cormac Reilly #1), by Dervla McTiernan
#Book #Crime #Mystery #PoliceProcedural

Not Safe for Work, by Nisha J. Tuli
#Book #Humour #Review #Romance 

These Silent Woods, by Kimi Cunningham Grant
#Adventure #Book #Meh #Mystery

The Scholar (Detective Cormac Reilly #2), by Dervla McTiernan
#Book #Crime #Favourite #Mystery

In Her Own League, by Liz Tomforde
#Book #Crap #Review #Romance