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sticky What are you favorite spring reads? (v/books)

submitted 1 year ago by Czarpineapple to books (+29|-1)

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Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria

Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria (theatlantic.com)

submitted 3 days ago by DerKatalog to books (+4|-0)

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Universities redesign libraries for the 21st century: fewer books, more space

Universities redesign libraries for the 21st century: fewer books, more space (latimes.com)

submitted 3 days ago by PeBeFri to books (+6|-0)

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Anyone use ibookdb? (ibookdb.net)

submitted 12 days ago by effusive_ermine to books (+3|-0)

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The Bloody History of the True Crime Genre (daily.jstor.org)

submitted 3 days ago by yourbasicgeek to books (+3|-0)

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Yikes! New Behind-the-Scenes Book Brutalizes the Clinton Campaign

Yikes! New Behind-the-Scenes Book Brutalizes the Clinton Campaign (rollingstone.com)

submitted 1.9 days ago by Antikaon to books (+26|-1)

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Salingers Nightmare

Salingers Nightmare (theparisreview.org)

submitted 6 days ago by Maxcactus to books (+5|-0)

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The Storms of the Future: Kim Stanley Robinson's New York 2140

The Storms of the Future: Kim Stanley Robinson's New York 2140 (souciant.com)

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Ragnar Lothbrok: A Legendary Viking Warrior, His Family, and His Legacy - Kindle Edition is free from April 4th - 8th (archive.is)

submitted 16 days ago by Disappointed to books (+4|-0)

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New Book By Campaign Insiders Shreds Hillary Clinton: A Fuming, Pissed Off Mess

New Book By Campaign Insiders Shreds Hillary Clinton: A Fuming, Pissed Off Mess (dcwhispers.com)

submitted 8 days ago by Ex-Redditor to books (+8|-0)

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I hate you Goodreads. I really, really hate you

I hate you Goodreads. I really, really hate you (thenextweb.com)

submitted 12 days ago by Spankydickerson to books (+5|-0)

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Ernest Hemingway Creates a Reading List for a Young Writer, 1934

Ernest Hemingway Creates a Reading List for a Young Writer, 1934 (openculture.com)

submitted 8 days ago by http404 to books (+19|-2)

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The Evolution Man, by Roy Lewis - The Neglected Books Page (neglectedbooks.com)

submitted 7 days ago by DerKatalog to books (+5|-0)

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REVIEW: Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

REVIEW: Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (thefederalist.com)

submitted 7 days ago by Greenseats to books (+4|-1)

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10 Debut Novels That Are Also Their Authors Masterpieces

10 Debut Novels That Are Also Their Authors Masterpieces (lithub.com)

submitted 5 days ago by MichaelCaine to books (+10|-0)

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HBCU Mone Business Book Feature - Confessions of the Pricing Man: How Price Affects Everything

HBCU Mone Business Book Feature - Confessions of the Pricing Man: How Price Affects Everything (hbcumoney.com)

submitted 1 month ago by carnold03 to books (+3|-0)

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Train of thought: Writer found his muse, penned first novel commuting on the F line

Train of thought: Writer found his muse, penned first novel commuting on the F line (nydailynews.com)

submitted 11 days ago by DerKatalog to books (+5|-1)

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A Jordan Bookseller's 24-Hour 'Emergency Room for the Mind'

A Jordan Bookseller's 24-Hour 'Emergency Room for the Mind' (atlasobscura.com)

submitted 12 days ago by Owlchemy to books (+8|-0)

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The D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths Is Famous. But What About Their Forgotten American Stories?

The D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths Is Famous. But What About Their Forgotten American Stories? (atlasobscura.com)

submitted 1 month ago by Owlchemy to books (+3|-0)

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Amazon takes a page from bricks-and-mortar bookstores. Here's what it's like inside

Amazon takes a page from bricks-and-mortar bookstores. Here's what it's like inside (chicagotribune.com)

submitted 12 days ago by MichaelCaine to books (+3|-0)

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Uncovering the Hidden Books Tucked Inside Every Single Library

Uncovering the Hidden Books Tucked Inside Every Single Library (atlasobscura.com)

submitted 1 month ago by Owlchemy to books (+6|-0)

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Old Books (specifically 1700-1800) (books)

submitted 26 days ago by SpaceCpt to books (+13|-0)

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So lately I've been using Archive.org to read old books, currently I'm reading The Celtic Druids by Higgins, Godfrey, 1773 - 1833. I've noticed that in a lot of these older books, the prefaces are hilarious. This one in particular the author starts off explaining the nuances of language and translation then suddenly jumps into a rant about the Hebrews fucking up language by being too lazy to put vowels back into their shorthand. It then turns into an almost existential crisis as he explains why he pulled so much information from others works and apologizing if his work seems rushed because he started going blind half way through and still wasn't accustomed to his spectacles and then goes on to hop other future generations will find his book good enough to use as a reference like he used others.

Anyway, I'm not going anywhere with this I just found this preface particularly entertaining and wanted to share.

EDIT: Does anyone know what the 'ovens of Omar' are?

If the works of older authors are not to be used by their successors for the ends of truth, they are of little use; they might as well be sent to the ovens of Omar.

Is how it's used. I haven't had much luck searching it online.

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Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus - Laura Kipnis (archive.is)

submitted 11 days ago by Grimlock2015 to books (+5|-0)

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Principia Discordia pdf (node.zeneval.com)

submitted 1 fortnight ago by Wolfspider to books (+14|-0)

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Book Excerpt: 'Surviving Death' (US 2017)

Book Excerpt: 'Surviving Death' (US 2017) (livescience.com)

submitted 26 days ago by Owlchemy to books (+6|-0)

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Building a New Ring of Power in Lord of the Rings (books)

submitted 1 month ago by heebiejeebie to books (+3|-0)

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So, there's a new Lord of the Rings game, and in the opening sequence the main character and Celebrimbor build their own Ring of Power. I'm not a hardcore Tolkienist, but isnt' this a really bad idea lorewise?

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