if you're not jerking off to it anyway, get the hell out.
Wednesday, 25 June 2025

Authors hit by bad reviews on Goodreads before review copies are even circulated

quote [ Authors are being hit by negative reviews on Goodreads before review copies are even circulated, with the review site allegedly failing to remove reviews.  ]

You're updating Goodreads
[SFW] [literature] [+2 Informative]
[by ScoobySnacks@8:08amGMT] [8 comments]

Wednesday, 21 May 2025

Chicago Sun-Times publishes made-up books and fake experts in AI debacle

quote [ A summer reading guide included made-up books by real authors. ]

A stained fake book
[SFW] [literature] [+2 WTF]
[by ScoobySnacks@6:56amGMT] [3 comments]

Saturday, 10 May 2025

Authors speak out against failed US book festival: ?shattered badges and silence?

quote [ Grace Marsceau promised to pack A Million Lives event. Authors arrived to empty rooms, unpaid bills and no decor ]

There's a festival needs planning
[SFW] [literature] [+3 WTF]
[by ScoobySnacks@5:00amGMT] [3 comments]

Sunday, 4 May 2025

Reading Behind Bars, and Beyond Barriers

quote [ Jackie Snow reflects on what working for a books-to-prisons nonprofit has taught her about reading. ]

Welcome to jail book prison blues
[SFW] [literature] [+4]
[by ScoobySnacks@5:03amGMT] [0 comments]

Saturday, 25 January 2025

The Sun by Frans Masereel, A Story Without Words - 1919

quote [ The Flemish woodcut artist Frans Masereel wrote the most compelling wordless novels ]

The Flemish spirit alive in each town
[SFW] [literature] [+2]
[by ScoobySnacks@6:01amGMT] [0 comments]

Monday, 13 January 2025

Far Out Images from Johann Zahn?s Oculus Artificialis (1685)

quote [ Through his descriptions and diagrams, illustrations and sketches Zahn shows readers the workings of the camera obscura and magic lantern ]

People concertina to my private magic lantern move for me
[SFW] [literature] [+2 Interesting]
[by ScoobySnacks@6:05amGMT] [1 comment]

Monday, 30 December 2024

How Does the Writer Say Etcetera?

quote [ Sumana Roy ponders the linguistic and aesthetic significance of ?etceterization.? ]

Etcetera-nough, etcetera-nough
[SFW] [literature] [+1 Interesting]
[by ScoobySnacks@10:13amGMT] [0 comments]

Sunday, 15 December 2024

Charles Green Shaw's Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes - c. 1920s

quote [ Created by artist Charles Green Shaw between the wars the book features black and white illustrations and poetic recipes for various cocktails ]

When I rhyme it's a part of the recipe
[SFW] [literature] [+2]
[by ScoobySnacks@6:01amGMT] [0 comments]

Friday, 29 November 2024

How Typing Transformed Nietzsche?s Consciousness

quote [ He undoubtedly was aware of his increased productivity, but as to the quality and substance of the content, as its creator, he perhaps was not best placed to judge. ]

Great quotes on how our tools transform our thoughts.
[SFW] [literature] [+2]
[by Paracetamol@10:20amGMT] [0 comments]

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