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9 votes
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Leo Tolstoy on finding meaning in a meaningless world
9 votes -
A new book describes Hunter S. Thompson’s prescience. “Trump is present on every page, even though he’s never mentioned once,” the author says.
8 votes -
What are you reading these days? #9
Edit: #9, not #8; sorry for messing the title up. Would be glad if someone can fix it for me, I can't edit it apparently. Thanks a lot, Deimos, for fixing it up! What are you reading currently?...
Edit:
#9, not #8; sorry for messing the title up. Would be glad if someone can fix it for me, I can't edit it apparently.Thanks a lot, Deimos, for fixing it up!What are you reading currently? Fiction or non-fiction, any genre, any language! Tell us what you're reading, and talk a bit about it.
Past weeks: Week #1 · Week #2 · Week #3 · Week #4 · Week #5 · Week #6 · Week #7 · Week #8
12 votes -
The secret histories of secondhand books
5 votes -
State of the Sanderson 2018
12 votes -
A book list by/for CIOs
4 votes -
What’s the oldest book you own and how did you get it?
I was browsing a second hand bookshop the other day and I was rather excited as a Tolkien fan to find a first edition print of The Silmarillion from 1977. Unfortunately I did not have the money to...
I was browsing a second hand bookshop the other day and I was rather excited as a Tolkien fan to find a first edition print of The Silmarillion from 1977. Unfortunately I did not have the money to purchase the book which was in rather decent condition but it got me thinking. What’s the oldest book you own personally, and how did it end up in your possession?
11 votes -
Cybersecurity books recommended by top security researchers
8 votes -
Hyperliterature
8 votes -
Has anyone used a book scanning/digitization service?
I ask because I have several physical books that I would love to have digital copies of. Most of the services out there are destructive, so you lose the book when you send it in to scan. I'm fine...
I ask because I have several physical books that I would love to have digital copies of.
Most of the services out there are destructive, so you lose the book when you send it in to scan. I'm fine with this in theory, except for the fact that I'd hate to lose the physical book and have it replaced with a crappy digital copy. I've not had terribly great luck with my own attempts at OCR with documents (but I'm also not a professional).
Additionally, some of the books I want to scan have extensive footnotes. The ideal would be that the book gets scanned and edited to have these footnotes hyperlinked in the resulting ebook, but I don't know if anyone offers that kind of service. I'd even be okay with the footnotes just being eliminated if it's too much trouble. What I don't want is them just being flowed into the main text of the document.
There are a lot of different options out there, and I'm more than willing to pay for a good job. Has anyone used one of these services and can speak to their quality?
7 votes -
What are you reading these days? #8
What are you reading currently? Fiction or non-fiction, any genre, any language! Tell us what you're reading, and talk a bit about it. Past weeks: Week #1 · Week #2 · Week #3 · Week #4 · Week #5 ·...
What are you reading currently? Fiction or non-fiction, any genre, any language! Tell us what you're reading, and talk a bit about it.
Past weeks: Week #1 · Week #2 · Week #3 · Week #4 · Week #5 · Week #6 · Week #7
17 votes -
Margaret Atwood writing sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, coming out in Sept. 2019
11 votes -
Tiny books fit in one hand. Will they change the way we read?
8 votes -
What are you reading these days? #7
What are you reading currently? Fiction or non-fiction, any genre, any language! Tell us what you're reading, and talk a bit about it. Past weeks: Week #1 · Week #2 · Week #3 · Week #4 · Week #5 ·...
What are you reading currently? Fiction or non-fiction, any genre, any language! Tell us what you're reading, and talk a bit about it.
Past weeks: Week #1 · Week #2 · Week #3 · Week #4 · Week #5 · Week #6
11 votes -
Readers rejoice as shop finally sells book that sat on shelf for twenty-seven years
9 votes -
Danish ex-gangster shot dead on day his memoir on leaving criminal past was launched
7 votes -
Any literary translators here? What programs do you use?
I've started doing this amateurishly a few months ago, translating a novel slowly, and nowadays I'm thinking of going to a few publishers and asking for actual contracts. Currently, I'm using an...
I've started doing this amateurishly a few months ago, translating a novel slowly, and nowadays I'm thinking of going to a few publishers and asking for actual contracts. Currently, I'm using an Org mode file in Emacs to do the translation, but I'm not sure that this is the most optimal way to do it. I was doing it using paper for a while, but editing and commenting is more flexible in Org mode. Yet it is also rather cumbersome the way I do it:
<<pageNo.paragraphNo.sentenceNo>> Text, text text # some text with a comment # comment about the part between this comment and the above empty one more text, more text. <<...>> Another sentence
I'm thinking of adding some code to make this a bit prettier, though.
But are there anything that's better out there already. My preference hierarchy: Emacs mode, yayyy! > Open source app, that's fine > Proprietary app, shit! but better than nothing.
I'm not sure if this should go under ~comp, ~tech or here (~books).
8 votes -
“Devil Girl from Mars”: Why I Write Science Fiction (1998)
6 votes -
Canadian literary prize suspended after finalists object to Amazon sponsorship
10 votes -
Exiled: The disturbing story of a citizen made unBritish
7 votes -
Pretentious, impenetrable, hard work ... better? Why we need difficult books
7 votes -
What are you reading these days? #6
What are you reading currently? Fiction or non-fiction, any genre, any language! Tell us what you're reading, and talk a bit about it. Notes: Do any one of you follow any literary magazines? How...
What are you reading currently? Fiction or non-fiction, any genre, any language! Tell us what you're reading, and talk a bit about it.
Notes: Do any one of you follow any literary magazines? How do you follow fresh pieces of literature, and grab hold of them "fresh out of the oven"?
22 votes -
The man who made science fiction what it is today: On John Campbell, who "influenced the dreamlife of millions".
9 votes -
The Great American Read
6 votes -
Yevgeny Vodolazkin: Russia’s prize-winning novelist on Orthodoxy, death and playing with time
4 votes -
A never-before-seen short story by Sylvia Plath will be published in January.
7 votes -
Near the end of the Middle Ages a device came into service that helped avid readers: the book carousel or book wheel
14 votes -
What Isaac Asimov taught us about predicting the future
14 votes -
Louis Cha, who wrote beloved Chinese martial arts novels as Jin Yong, dies
11 votes -
What are you reading these days? #5 (Was: What are you reading this week?)
What are you reading currently? Fiction or non-fiction, any genre, any language! Tell us what you're reading, and talk a bit about it. Notes: I've modified the title a bit, having it say "this...
What are you reading currently? Fiction or non-fiction, any genre, any language! Tell us what you're reading, and talk a bit about it.
Notes: I've modified the title a bit, having it say "this week" when it was never weekly (it's bi-weekly) was a bit weird.
18 votes -
The young queer writer who became Greenland’s unlikely literary star
6 votes -
Audiobook version of the Bible with historical context?
Hi there, I was curious if there exists a version of the Old and/or New Testament that provides historical context for the language and events. I'm thinking something like the New Oxford Annotated...
Hi there,
I was curious if there exists a version of the Old and/or New Testament that provides historical context for the language and events. I'm thinking something like the New Oxford Annotated Bible. However, the kicker is I want to listen to it as an audiobook. I'm not 100% sure what that experience would be like given that I believe most of the annotation occurs as footnotes, but I'm sure it could be done.
I've been meaning to read the good book but never got around to it. I think it's a lot more likely to happen if it's an audiobook as that's how I consume most books at the moment.
Does anyone know of something like that?
6 votes -
Dacre Stoker on resurrecting his great-grand-uncle’s vampire
3 votes -
Good whodunnit/crime investigation books?
What are for you the best modern whodunnit/criminal investigation books? I'm interested in books like Sherlock Holmes where there are clever deductions but also books where everybody knows who the...
What are for you the best modern whodunnit/criminal investigation books? I'm interested in books like Sherlock Holmes where there are clever deductions but also books where everybody knows who the criminal is but they need to find evidence and the bad guy seems to always be two steps ahead (kind of like Daredevil season 3 with Wilson Fisk).
10 votes -
Nadine Gordimer wrote furiously, in every sense. The Nobel Prize-winning South African writer cared very much how people think, and not at all what people thought of her.
7 votes -
Why should you read "Waiting For Godot"? | Iseult Gillespie
5 votes -
The LibriVox free audiobook collection
12 votes -
Robert and Virginia Heinlein's Colorado Springs House
6 votes -
why i only own 4 books 💸 a chat on booktube consumerism
12 votes -
The poison squad: One chemist’s single-minded crusade for food safety at the turn of the twentieth century
6 votes -
A personal library too big to get through in a lifetime “isn’t a sign of failure or ignorance,” but rather “a badge of honor.”
11 votes -
China Miéville
Is anyone here familiar with his work? Perhaps you could recommend a starting point for someone more inclined towards exploring darker urban / sociopolitical realist "fantasy"; not so interested...
Is anyone here familiar with his work? Perhaps you could recommend a starting point for someone more inclined towards exploring darker urban / sociopolitical realist "fantasy"; not so interested in escapism for the sake of escapism. LeGuin over Tolkien, etc.
10 votes -
Ten books that defined the 1910s
10 votes -
What are you reading this week? #4
What are you reading currently? Fiction or non-fiction, any genre, any language! Tell us what you're reading, and talk a bit about it. Please also tell me if you think this is too frequent, in...
What are you reading currently? Fiction or non-fiction, any genre, any language! Tell us what you're reading, and talk a bit about it.
Please also tell me if you think this is too frequent, in which case I can switch to doing this once a month instead of every other week. I'll edit the post text to append the decision. Have a nice weekend!
15 votes -
The 19th century best-selling author excluded by the Brazilian Academy of Letters
5 votes -
When pop-up books taught popular science
9 votes -
The strange triumph of “The Little Prince”
5 votes -
Growing up in a house full of books is major boost to literacy and numeracy, study finds
15 votes -
How A Teenage Girl Became the Mother of Horror: Mary Shelley combined science and the supernatural to write Frankenstein, the world’s first science-fiction novel.
3 votes