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libreture

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Goodreads meets Dropbox for ebook readers.

Never manually add book details to track your reading again! Store hundreds of ebooks for FREE in your own cloud library and let Libreture do the work.

👋 By https://mastodon.social/@kevinbeynon
🛠️🐞: https://mastodon.social/@libreturestatus

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Buy DRM-free Special Edition ebooks & magazines at my curated ebookshop https://mastodon.online/@scarletferret! 🎁

#fedi22 #ebooks #DRMfree #reading #comics

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LincolnRamirez, to bookstodon
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I've been thinking of finally reading some Stephen King, but no idea where to start.

Go for one of the likes of his famous work, like the Shining or the Green Mile? Or something lesser known?

@bookstodon

fskornia,
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@LincolnRamirez @bookstodon What do you typically like to read? King has a very wide range, so there is probably something good to transition into.

seaotta, to webdev
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Hey #webdev crew - It's a perfect weekend to stock up on technical & educational books this weekend as EVERYTHING is 50% over at Manning Publications!

That means my book "Design for Developers" is 50% off! Snag a physical copy so you get all the pages in color (it makes a difference!)

🔗 https://www.manning.com/books/design-for-developers?utm_source=stimac&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=book_stimac_design_4_19_22&a_aid=stimac&a_bid=5f6ba095

aral, to DuckDuckGo
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“Choice.”

#alternatives #choice #DuckDuckGo #DDG #Qwant #ecosia #bing

Qwant search for foo at 09:18: Qwant is temporarily unavailable.
Ecosia search for foo @ 09:17: There was a problem loading search results for “foo”
Two astronauts staring at Earth from space. Front astronaut: “you mean it’s all just Bing?” Rear astronaut, aiming gun at front astronaut: “Always has been.”

anirvan, to random
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Kindle? Kobo? Apple Books?

What’s the best, or maybe most ethical, ebook platform?

(I rarely reread books, so long-term ownership isn’t a factor for me)

Rycaut,
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@anirvan they have an active presence here - @libreture offers a drm free place to store ebooks onljne and they promote a lot of places to buy drm free ebooks. So they are a good option to explore whatever client you use to read the ebooks. Many libraries have one or more services they offer to anyone with a local card which can also be a great source for ebooks (and libraries pay often more than individuals for their ebooks)

bcsmagazine, to random
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BCS ebook is out early today at @WeightlessBooks & Kindle Store and for subscribers, featuring stories of destiny forged by relationships told through malleable perspectives by YM Pang and Andrew K Hoe, behind cover art by Scott Harris.

(Would you like to get BCS ebooks, a week before the stories go live on the website? Subscribe at Weightless Books, buy the single issues, or support BCS on Patreon.)

https://weightlessbooks.com/fiction/beneath-ceaseless-skies-issue-408/
https://www.amazon.com/Beneath-Ceaseless-Skies-Issue-408-ebook/dp/B0CW1M21HS/

Undertow, to random
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Hello BlueSky! It's a new story day here at Weird Horror. Always exciting. Please enjoy the imaginatively sublime "The Haunting House" by David Ebenbach. Artwork by James Hutton.

https://www.weirdhorrormagazine.com/haunting

sue, to random
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Not linking directly because I don't want to shit on projects I believe are genuinely trying to make the web better, but every time I see a post about "the small web" or a more "humane" web or whatever that includes phrases like this about content: "created without the motivation of financial gain" I sigh so deeply lol

I am begging ethical web enthusiasts to understand what an extreme privilege it is to spend time working on something without worrying about money

sue,
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Didn't we learn this from open source already?

This shit is how you end up with spaces at best lacking inclusion and more likely hostile to a diverse representation of voices

Wanting to get paid for work isn't an optional extra for the overwhelming majority of people in the world ffs

sue,
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Side gripe: a lot of these efforts are based on nostalgia for a past or perceived lost web that's meaningless to almost everyone on the web today, I don't want something we had or believe we had, I want something better that's shaped by the folk who'll be most affected by its future

sjvn, to random
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All this and more!

ElBeeToots, to DuckDuckGo
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🇳🇱 Ook zoekmachine DuckDuckGo heeft nu AI standaard aan staan. Om het uit te schakelen klik je op de zoekresultatenpagina op de twee "tennisrackets" aan de rechterkant. Vervolgens kies je in het menuutje 'AI-functies > Beheren' en daar kun je alles uitzetten.

🇬🇧 DuckDuckGo has turned on AI as a standard setting. To turn it off, click on the two 'tennis rackets' on the search results page, on the right side. Then click on 'AI functions > Manage' to turn everything off.

#DuckDuckGo #AI #optout

matt, to random
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💥 HUGE NEWS: Issue 2 of our comic about teens on the early internet, which Vanity Fair called "one of the best of the year" just went up online for free!

Heartbreaking, funny, thrilling, & nostalgic. You're going to love it.

🌐 Read the whole issue free:
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💻 get the e-book for just $3
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📕 snag a beautiful 53-page print version for $9.
https://buyolympia.com/Item/matthew-bogart-jesse-holden-incredible-doom-eternal-september-no2
Tip: Buying 1&2! It saves on shipping!

GuerillaGrue, to random
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I know this is going to be an opinion that a lot of people disagree with, but hear me out:

If you're going to "game-ify" your service... make it optional.

I'm not talking "you can just ignore it" optional. I'm not talking "just don't take it seriously" optional.

No. Let me disable it.

I want to use DuoLingo and NOT know what my ranking is or who my stuff is being compared to or what my score is? Let me.

I want to disable achievements on my Xbox or Steam? Let me.

It's not that hard.

1/2

GenX, to books
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The list of #ebooks that you can actually own (unlike most greedy corposlag publishers) curated by @libreture now has filters to isolate what you're looking for. A great list got even better.

#DRMfree #DRMsucks #Books #Reading

https://libreture.com/bookshops/

scarletferret, to random
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Scratch by Sue Millard is a Cumbrian family drama of racehorses and fell ponies, of home and hearth.

After borrowing heavily to buy a neglected farm in Cumbria. Siân and Madoc are land-rich now, but short of cash and indebted to the bank and their family.

https://scarletferret.com/news/home-hearth-horses-attempted-murder-Scratch

#ebook #DRMfree #Ponies

nilesjohnson, to random
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Apple crush commercial, but it's smashing cyber trucks, crypto mining rigs, llm servers, the boston dynamics robots, army drones, etc. Has anyone made this version yet?

sharporg, to history
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SHARP is looking for a co-editor to join the Book History editorial team!

Applications are due on Friday, May 31st.

You can find more information as well as a full job description at the link.

https://sharpweb.org/sharpnews/2024/05/10/opportunity-to-join-book-history-editorial-team-as-co-editor/

InterzoneMag, to random

The first 5 INTERZONE issues I edited are available as Pay What You Want #pwyw ebooks – if you’ve been tempted to read INTERZONE but have resisted up to now, now is the perfect time to take a good, long, thrilling look at the amazing fiction and non-fiction in these issues

https://shop.interzone.press/b/s1DQI

https://shop.interzone.press/b/DklF5

https://shop.interzone.press/b/cedty

https://shop.interzone.press/b/xo5RK

https://shop.interzone.press/b/3AM1j

And get the latest issue – IZ 299, May 2024 – for 5 euro

Thanks for reading!

StelliformPress, to Horror

World Literature Today has published a wonderful review of Tiffany Morris's GREEN FUSE BURNING. I love the last line, highlighted in the pic: "In a 2023 interview, Morris defines her dream job as being “a forest oracle who gives cryptic messages to travelers”: Green Fuse Burning jump-starts her career."

Check out the review here: https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2024/may/green-fuse-burning-tiffany-morris

And if you missed the news 2 days ago, check out that beautiful finalists decal from the Indigenous Voices Awards! #bookstodon #horror #canlit

scarletferret, to Horses
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New today on Scarlet Ferret! 🐴

Scratch by Sue Millard is a Cumbrian family drama of racehorses and fell ponies, of home and hearth.

Siân and Madoc have borrowed heavily to buy a neglected farm in Cumbria. They are land-rich now, but short of cash and indebted to the bank and members of their family.

https://scarletferret.com/news/home-hearth-horses-attempted-murder-Scratch

#ebook #DRMfree #horses #FellPonies

gutenberg_org, to books
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French playwright and political activist Olympe de Gouges was born #OTD in 1748.

She is best known for writing the "Déclaration des droits de la Femme et de la Citoyenne" in 1791, which she wrote as a response to the "Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen" of 1789. Her advocacy for her revolutionary ideas led to her arrest and she was eventually guillotined in 1793 during the Reign of Terror for her political activities.

Olympe de Gouges at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53595

#books

Book cover titled "Olympe de Gouges: Les Droits de la Femme" featuring a greyscale illustration of Olympe de Gouges with classical hairstyle and attire, and a quote in French at the bottom that translates to "Woman is born free and remains equal to man in rights."

scarletferret, to magazine
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Interzone #299 it out now at Scarlet Ferret! 🔴

The May 2024 issue features short stories, essays, reviews, columns, and much more, every month.

In DRM-free epub, mobi & PDF formats!

https://scarletferret.com/magazines/interzone/299?ref=twitter

#DRMfree #Magazine

ThermiteBeGiants, to random
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Someone on Tumblr has made a concept for a Tarot Card deck made out of ISO hazard symbols and it goes hard:

https://www.tumblr.com/medusasstory/749203130036699136/this-is-a-nice-sign-to-look-at-1010-for

SallyStrange, to scifi
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10 authors, of whose books I've read at least five:

Ursula Le Guin
Kim Stanley Robinson
Octavia Butler
N. K. Jemisin
Becky Chambers
Iain M. Banks
Martha Wells
M. R. Carey
Lois McMaster Bujold
Vonda McIntyre


@bookstodon

elmyra,
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@SallyStrange @bookstodon

10 authors marginalised on at least one axis of whose books I have read at least 5 and am broadly happy recommending:

Neon Yang
Martha Wells
N. K. Jemisin
Alix E. Harrow
T. Kingfisher
Charles Stross
Alexis Hall
Naomi Novik
Ursula K. LeGuin
Yoon Ha Lee

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