📚 Ah, the irony of digital natives hoarding paper relics like some dystopian Netflix plot twist. Youngsters are now collecting ancient tomes to feel a connection—because, clearly, history is best experienced through the smell of musty pages. 😂 Keep scrolling, #bibliophiles, the digital era continues to mock your analog nostalgia. 📖
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The new bibliomaniacs

Rare book collecting is booming. Young people raised in the digital age are seeking tangible connections to the past.

Engelsberg ideas

Hello Mastodon (Mastodonians?)! Some interests not in my profile:
#NineteenthCentury
#NineteenthCenturyMedicine
#FinDeSiecle
#AntipodeanHistory
#DiasporaMigration
#WW2
#FineArt
#Modernism
#HistoryofFeminism
#Marxism
#UtopianNarratives
#DystopianNarratives
#PostColonialNarratives
#dogs
#VeggieGardening
#AussieWildlife
#travel

Books I return to: Patrick White's The Eye of The Storm, Shirley Hazzard's 'The Great Fire', Andrew Miller's 'Ingenious Pain' and Ursula Le Guin's 'The Left Hand of Darkness'.

#histodon
#bookish
#bookstadon
#litstudies