Book 44 for 2026

The Mystery of the back Passage
By
C Rawlins

#Reading #BoxSet #BookReader #ReadBooks #BookWprm

Anthropic disabling #Fable & #Mythos doesn’t teach us to switch to local tech. It teaches us not to over-rely on technology – that someone else controls – for thinking, working, learning or play.

So many getting that lesson wrong.

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Akkoma

Anthropic disabling #Fable & #Mythos doesn’t teach us to switch to local tech. It teaches us not to over-rely on technology – that someone else controls – for thinking, working, learning or play.

So many getting that lesson wrong.

#IndieWeb #RightToRepair #FOSS #RightToOwn #ReadBooks #Solarpunk
..I truly #believe people who #read #books ..are much smarter than those who do not #readbooks ..

Alberto Manguel writes in A History of Reading, “Throughout the South, it was common for plantation owners to hang any slave who tried to teach the others how to spell… The slave-owners (like dictators, tyrants, absolute monarchs and other illicit holders of power) were strong believers in the power of the written word. They knew, far better than some readers, that reading is a strength that requires barely a few first words to become overwhelming. Someone able to read one sentence is able to read all… For all these reasons, reading had to be forbidden… An illiterate crowd is easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it has been acquired, the second-best recourse is to limit its scope.”
Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World by Irene Vallejo


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Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom

Sweden is bringing back books amid declining test scores.

Ars Technica
I just finished this reverse harem, why choose book. A woman goes on an artist winter retreat and finds herself as the only guest along with four hot men in a rock band. It sounds predictable and maybe is but the spice is good and tbh so is the world building and story.
I enjoyed it and it was clearly written by an experienced and professional author, Parker Grey

🌶️ Spice 5/5
✅ HEA
✅Standalone
✅Already established group
✅ MFM, no sword crossing ⚔️

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“Maybe that’s why I tend to equate physical beauty with qualities with which it has absolutely nothing to do. I see a pretty mouth or a moody pair of eyes and imagine all sorts of deep affinities, private kinships. Never mind that half a dozen jerks are clustered round the same person, just because they’ve been duped by the same pair of eyes.” — *[Francis] “The Secret History” by Donna Tartt*


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