Is the Magic of Books Lost? Is the Love of the Authors Lost Too?
When I worked in a bilingual school as an assistant teacher, I remember the joy in the eyes of the little children as I read storybooks to them. They loved ...
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#books #reading #imagination #storytelling #authors #libraries #bookstores #loveofbooks #magicofbooks #AIart

We Have All the Information, So Why Do We Know Less?

A new transmission from Musing On #Society and #Technology #Newsletter.

Introducing: Reflections from Our Hybrid Analog-Digital Society

For years on the Redefining Society and Technology Podcast, I've explored a central premise: we live in a hybrid analog-digital society where the line between physical and virtual has dissolved into something more complex, more nuanced, and infinitely more human than we often acknowledge. But with the explosion of #generativeAI, this hybrid reality isn't just a philosophical concept anymore—it's our lived experience. Every day, we navigate between #analog intuition and #digital efficiency, between human wisdom and machine intelligence, between the messy beauty of physical presence and the seductive convenience of virtual interaction.

This newsletter series will explore the tensions, paradoxes, and possibilities of being fundamentally analog beings in an increasingly digital world. We're not just using technology; we're being reshaped by it while simultaneously reshaping it with our deeply human, analog sensibilities.

Analog Minds in a Digital World: Part 1

We Have All the Information, So Why Do We Know Less?

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#tech #cybersecurity #reading #writings #books #libraries #bookstores #universities #colleges

To be sure, #bookstores are not the greatest victims of the #Trump policies, but it's fascinating to see the situation through their lens

+: to see our daughter cited in Publisher's Weekly

Washington D.C. Indies Contend With Police & Military Presence

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/bookselling/article/98455-bookstores-contend-with-national-guard-presence-in-washington-d-c.html

I hate #bookstores because I look around and find so many #books i am interested in, but I cannot afford. A lot of knowledge that I can benefit from. So i end up photographing the books i want to #read and hope that i get around to them someday. A lot of the books I am interested is #cybersecurity #photography and #sociology
I just want to get better at my skills and put them to use.

#anticapitalism #knowledgematters #freeeducation

Brazil’s Book Business: A Fourth Industry-Wide Meeting

The 300-person conference at Guarujá brings publishers, distributors, booksellers, and printers together for an industry update.
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https://publishingperspectives.com/2025/09/brazils-book-business-a-fourth-industry-wide-meeting/

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Bookselling #Bookstores #Brazil
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How Harry Potter Fans Are Driving the Romantasy Trend – The New York Times

Why Magic, Dragons and Explicit Sex Are in Bookstores Everywhere

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By Alexandra Alter

• Published Aug. 20, 2025, Updated Aug. 21, 2025, 9:42 a.m. ET

On a whim one night, Simona Stallone clicked on some Harry Potter fanfiction, and quickly tumbled down a rabbit hole.

Ms. Stallone, a 28-year-old real estate agent and content creator who lives in Toronto, kept seeing posts about “Dramione” all over her feed. People on TikTok were raving about stories set in the world of Harry Potter, written by fans, that imagined a romance between the bookish Hermione Granger and her antagonist, the arrogant bully Draco Malfoy.

As a Harry Potter enthusiast who had always thought that J.K. Rowling should have brought Draco and Hermione together, Ms. Stallone was primed to become a Dramione addict.

Lying next to her sleeping boyfriend, she clicked on “Manacled,” a dark fantasy set in an alternate universe where Harry Potter is dead and the evil wizard Voldemort has triumphed. The story centered on an illicit, morally ambiguous romance between Hermione, a magic-wielding healer, and Draco, a vicious executioner who later holds Hermione captive as a prisoner of war. It had familiar elements from the Harry Potter books, but with a delicious twist — the characters were a little older and a lot hotter. And they were cast in decidedly more adult scenarios.

“Manacled” quickly became her “whole personality.”

“I was fully consumed by this book,” Ms. Stallone said. “I define my life as before and after ‘Manacled’ — you know, how some people are like, before Christ. ”

She got tattoos of imagery from “Manacled”— a constellation on her shoulder and a hummingbird on her ankle. She read the book half a dozen times, and when she wasn’t reading it, she listened to a fan-made audio recording of the story on triple speed to get to the best parts faster. Her friends gave her a three-volume, 1,188 page bound edition of “Manacled” for her birthday. She started a “Manacled” book club and pressed the story on anyone who would listen.

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#2025 #America #Books #Bookstores #Dragons #ExplicitSex #History #Libraries #Library #LibraryOfCongress #Magic #Reading #Science #TheNewYorkTimes #UnitedStates #Writing

>>The Barnes & Noble chain, also owned by Elliott and where Daunt is also the CEO, is benefiting in the US – where it is planning 60 new stores a year – from building on experience with Waterstones to open “much, much better bookshops” and training up and empowering its booksellers, he says.<<

Ha! When Tim Waterstone opened his first bookshop in London in 1982, he drew inspiration from US bookstores....including Barnes & Noble!

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/aug/17/waterstones-strong-sales-younger-adults-book-buying

#Books #Bookshops #Bookstores #Waterstones #BarnesAndNoble #Retail