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  1. If you're as #bibliophile like me, old #books are a treasure

    But if you're a gluttonous entity that has no concern for anything but strip mining human existence to monetize it and sell it back to us in a manipulated articificial form; to make us dependent, not physically like most #capitalist schemes, but cognitively, socially...

    " #AI Companies Are Buying #Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale"

    futurism.com/artificial-intell

  2. If you're as #bibliophile like me, old #books are a treasure

    But if you're a gluttonous entity that has no concern for anything but strip mining human existence to monetize it and sell it back to us in a manipulated articificial form; to make us dependent, not physically like most #capitalist schemes, but cognitively, socially...

    " #AI Companies Are Buying #Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale"

    futurism.com/artificial-intell

  3. I’ve finished book number 59 for the year, so this will be my next read. I am not planning to convert, but I am genuinely curious about the belief systems of others. I have already read The Talmud, The Bible (NSV), The Koran, The Satanic Bible and The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

    #CurrentlyReading #Goodreads #ReadingChallenge #Bibliophile #Booklovers #Bookworm #BhagavadGita #Hinduism #Atheism #Atheist

  4. Termin für Bibliophile: Speichert den 07.11. schon mal in euren Kalender. Da findet wieder die #Buchmesse #Augsburg, #Augsbuch, statt.
    Dort trifft man viele regionale Autor*innen, Verlage, Dienstleister*innen und kann sich die Werke auch durch Lesungen schmackhaft machen lassen (sehr zu empfehlen).

    Termin: 07.11.2026 von 10 – 16 Uhr, Tagungszentrum Messe Augsburg

    augsbuch.de/

    #Bibliophile
    #Lesung
    #Buchstodon
    #Literatur
    #Lesen

  5. Termin für Bibliophile: Speichert den 07.11. schon mal in euren Kalender. Da findet wieder die #Buchmesse #Augsburg, #Augsbuch, statt.
    Dort trifft man viele regionale Autor*innen, Verlage, Dienstleister*innen und kann sich die Werke auch durch Lesungen schmackhaft machen lassen (sehr zu empfehlen).

    Termin: 07.11.2026 von 10 – 16 Uhr, Tagungszentrum Messe Augsburg

    augsbuch.de/

    #Bibliophile
    #Lesung
    #Buchstodon
    #Literatur
    #Lesen

  6. When you hear "Gaza", it's easy to only think of the modern context. In fact, Gaza city has been inhabited since at least the 15th century BC.

    E-Sylum has news of a book about coins struck by the city of Gaza during the period of Roman rule: coinbooks.org/v29/esylum_v29n2

    The City of Gaza in the Roman Period by Yoav Farhi is available from: isdistribution.com/work/city-o

    #Numismatics #Coins #CoinCollecting #Gaza #News #Book #Bibliophile @numismatics

  7. When you hear "Gaza", it's easy to only think of the modern context. In fact, Gaza city has been inhabited since at least the 15th century BC.

    E-Sylum has news of a book about coins struck by the city of Gaza during the period of Roman rule: coinbooks.org/v29/esylum_v29n2

    The City of Gaza in the Roman Period by Yoav Farhi is available from: isdistribution.com/work/city-o

    #Numismatics #Coins #CoinCollecting #Gaza #News #Book #Bibliophile @numismatics

  8. After finishing book number 56 for the year, I have decided, once again, that it is time for a bit of Bond. Almost all of my copies of the continuation novels of the James Bond series are either tatty second hand copies or American editions that spell words like, honour and colour wrong, so I am buying new copies to replace them as I endeavour to reread the whole series.

    #CurrentlyReading #Goodreads #ReadingChallenge #Bibliophile #Booklovers #Bookworm #JamesBond #JamesBond007 #NoDealsMrBond #JohnGardner

  9. What if stories worked like open source code? Release early; let readers decide what survives. My short stories are inkican.com/smashwords-summer- #scifi #bibliophile #book #readingtime

  10. What if stories worked like open source code? Release early; let readers decide what survives. My short stories are inkican.com/smashwords-summer- #scifi #bibliophile #book #readingtime

  11. Think of this as open source storytelling; writers release ideas and see who picks them up. You get bold concepts in ethics and tech without filters. That is where new genres start inkican.com/smashwords-summer- #scifi #bibliophile #book #readingtime

  12. Think of this as open source storytelling; writers release ideas and see who picks them up. You get bold concepts in ethics and tech without filters. That is where new genres start inkican.com/smashwords-summer- #scifi #bibliophile #book #readingtime

  13. After finishing my 52nd book of the year, my next endeavour will be this one, that just took a momentary trip over my shoulder thanks to a motorcyclist speeding from the traffic lights at Devonshire Road at exactly the same time that I switched on the ceiling fan in my bedroom!

    #CurrentlyReading #Goodreads #ReadingChallenge #Bibliophile #Booklovers #Bookworm #PeriodicTales #HughAldersleyWilliams #Chemistry #Science #FirstWorldProblems

  14. After finishing my 52nd book of the year, my next endeavour will be this one, that just took a momentary trip over my shoulder thanks to a motorcyclist speeding from the traffic lights at Devonshire Road at exactly the same time that I switched on the ceiling fan in my bedroom!

    #CurrentlyReading #Goodreads #ReadingChallenge #Bibliophile #Booklovers #Bookworm #PeriodicTales #HughAldersleyWilliams #Chemistry #Science #FirstWorldProblems

  15. After finishing my 51st book of the year, my next read will be something that I received for my birthday just over a week ago. There are books on my to be read pile that have been there since before the Brexit referendum!

    #CurrentlyReading #Goodreads #ReadingChallenge #Bibliophile #Booklovers #Bookworm #DadsArmy #SinclairMcKay #TheHomeGuard #TBRpile

  16. Books are the ultimate time travel. Open a cover and you're suddenly in ancient Rome, 1920s Paris, or a galaxy thousands of years in the future. All from your favorite armchair. What era are you visiting today? 📚✨
    #Reading #Bookstodon #Bibliophile

  17. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜’𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: "𝗔 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴" 𝗯𝘆 𝗔𝗹𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗼 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗲𝗹 -

    Seems fitting--I mean, isn't this a book about my seeming sole occupation now?

    #books #bookreviews #bookworm #readreadread #tbr #tbrpile #tbrlist #quotes #reading #albertomanguel #ahistoryofreading #nonfiction #history #bibliophile

  18. Do you use The StoryGraph to catalogue the books you read, and find it cumbersome to sync the devices you read from to the website?

    Storywell is here to help out!
    Audible sync works quite well, and imports from Goodreads and several other services are verified working. Some services are still very experimental, since I dont have accounts to truly test on.

    drmowinckels.io/storywell/

  19. With 50 books completed so far this year I am half way towards my goal, and this will be the next escapee from the teetering tower that is my to be read pile

    #CurrentlyReading #Goodreads #ReadingChallenge #Bibliophile #Booklovers #Bookworm #TBRpile #ManslaughterUnited #Football #Soccer #ChrisHulme

  20. From this week's E-Sylum: "Banknotes Salvaged, Looted, or Lost by Shipwreck" has been updated to include ALL forms of transit:

    "A study of 57 known shipwrecks and confiscated cargos of consigned banknotes from 44 countries, 15 printers and 3 paper mills - 1779 forward".

    The book was particularly updated after the crash of a Lockheed C-130 Hercules in Bolivia with a consignment of 10, 20, & 50 Bolivianos on board. A frenzy of about 20,000 people attempted to cart off some of some the 60,000+ banknotes spewed about La Paz airport wreck site. More: coinbooks.org/v29/esylum_v29n2

    #Numismatics #CoinCollecting #Banknotes #Currency #Accident #Books #Bibliophile @numismatics