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📅 This Day in Literature — March 31
Born on this day: Charlotte Brontë (1816)
Jane Eyre revolutionized fiction with its fierce, independent heroine.
Amazon now lets you download some Kindle books as DRM-free EPUBs. A step forward -- but once you start reading EPUBs, you notice how much quality varies between editions.
Proper typography, consistent formatting, good metadata. These things matter more than you'd think.
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BookShelves v1.0.11 is here!
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Export — Highlights as Markdown, JSON, or CSV.
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📅 This Day in Literature — March 25
Published on this day: The Great Gatsby (1925)
Fitzgerald's masterpiece was a commercial failure — he died thinking it forgotten.
💡 Did You Know?
Edgar Allan Poe was paid just $9 for "The Raven" — one of the most famous poems in English.
📅 This Day in Literature — March 24
Remembered today: Jules Verne (1905)
The father of science fiction predicted submarines, space travel, and the internet.
Every "free ebook" list starts and ends with Project Gutenberg. The sources I actually use are better — and nobody talks about them.
Standard Ebooks rebuilds public domain texts with proper typography. OAPEN has free peer-reviewed academic books. Open Library lends modern books like a real library.
Here are the ones worth knowing about:
BookShelves v1.0.6 is here!
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The best horror was written over a hundred years ago. Before jump scares, before gore — when horror was a feeling, not a genre label.
8 free public domain classics for your e-reader: Dracula, Carmilla, Frankenstein, The King in Yellow, The Turn of the Screw, Jekyll & Hyde, The Great God Pan, and The Monkey's Paw.
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📅 This Day in Literature — March 21
Published on this day: Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel that Lincoln reportedly said started the Civil War.
