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💡 Did You Know?
Moby-Dick flopped so badly that when Melville died in 1891, the New York Times misspelled his name in the obituary.
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Did you know? BookShelves has a built-in Calibre wireless server. Send books to KOReader on your e-ink reader over Wi-Fi, no cables needed. Reading progress syncs back automatically.
Anyone here using KOReader on a Kobo or PocketBook? What's your sync setup like?
#Bookstodon #FediReads #KOReader #Calibre #ebooks #BookShelves #eink
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Did you know? BookShelves has a built-in Calibre wireless server. Send books to KOReader on your e-ink reader over Wi-Fi, no cables needed. Reading progress syncs back automatically.
Anyone here using KOReader on a Kobo or PocketBook? What's your sync setup like?
#Bookstodon #FediReads #KOReader #Calibre #ebooks #BookShelves #eink
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Did you know? BookShelves has a built-in Calibre wireless server. Send books to KOReader on your e-ink reader over Wi-Fi, no cables needed. Reading progress syncs back automatically.
Anyone here using KOReader on a Kobo or PocketBook? What's your sync setup like?
#Bookstodon #FediReads #KOReader #Calibre #ebooks #BookShelves #eink
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Did you know? BookShelves has a built-in Calibre wireless server. Send books to KOReader on your e-ink reader over Wi-Fi, no cables needed. Reading progress syncs back automatically.
Anyone here using KOReader on a Kobo or PocketBook? What's your sync setup like?
#Bookstodon #FediReads #KOReader #Calibre #ebooks #BookShelves #eink
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Did you know? BookShelves has a built-in Calibre wireless server. Send books to KOReader on your e-ink reader over Wi-Fi, no cables needed. Reading progress syncs back automatically.
Anyone here using KOReader on a Kobo or PocketBook? What's your sync setup like?
#Bookstodon #FediReads #KOReader #Calibre #ebooks #BookShelves #eink
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Did you know? BookShelves has 1,200+ free Spanish-language classics from the Biblioteca Nacional de Espana built right in.
Cervantes, Lorca, Calderon de la Barca, Galdos... all free, beautifully formatted EPUBs.
What Spanish classic would you recommend to someone who's never read one?
#Bookstodon #FediReads #FreeBooks #SpanishLiterature #BookShelves #ebooks
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📖 "Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."
— Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
Read for free in BookShelves:
https://lk0.eu/bks32m#Bookstodon #FediReads #FreeBooks #Classics #BookShelves #Literature
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💡 Did You Know?
The Great Gatsby sold only ~20,000 copies in Fitzgerald's lifetime. It became a classic after WWII when the US Army gave free copies to soldiers.
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📖 World Book Day / Shakespeare Day: Hamlet by William Shakespeare
"To be, or not to be" — Shakespeare's greatest tragedy of revenge, madness, and mortality. Written around 1600, Hamlet remains the most performed and studied play in the English language. The play that defined Western literature.
Read for free in BookShelves:
https://lk0.eu/bks16m#Bookstodon #FediReads #FreeBooks #Classics #BookShelves #WorldBookDay #Shakespeare #literature
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📖 Earth Day Read: Walden by Henry David Thoreau
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately." Thoreau's account of two years spent in a cabin by Walden Pond remains one of the most influential meditations on simple living, nature, and self-reliance ever written.
Read for free in BookShelves:
https://lk0.eu/bks15m#Bookstodon #FediReads #FreeBooks #Classics #BookShelves #EarthDay #nature #literature
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📖 "Curiouser and curiouser!"
— Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
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https://lk0.eu/bks31m#Bookstodon #FediReads #FreeBooks #Classics #BookShelves #Literature
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💡 Did You Know?
Tolstoy's wife Sophia hand-copied the War and Peace manuscript seven times as he continually revised it.
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📖 International Children's Book Day: Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen
The Ugly Duckling, The Little Mermaid, Thumbelina, The Emperor's New Clothes — timeless stories that shaped childhood imagination for generations. Andersen's fairy tales blend wonder with wisdom in ways that resonate with readers of all ages.
Read for free in BookShelves:
https://lk0.eu/bks14m#Bookstodon #FediReads #FreeBooks #Classics #BookShelves #ChildrensBookDay #FairyTales
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📖 "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
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https://lk0.eu/bks30m#Bookstodon #FediReads #FreeBooks #Classics #BookShelves #Literature
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BookShelves v1.0.11 is here!
Comic Books — CBZ, CBR, CB7 with two-page spreads and dark chrome.
Calibre Sync — Send books to KOReader over Wi-Fi.
Export — Highlights as Markdown, JSON, or CSV.
Reader — Midnight & Quiet themes. Dictionary lookup. Progress bar.
Import — Double-click to open. Faster large imports.Download on the App Store:
https://lk0.eu/bks810m#Bookstodon #FediReads #ebooks #reading #BookShelves #indiedev
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💡 Did You Know?
Edgar Allan Poe was paid just $9 for "The Raven" — one of the most famous poems in English.
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📖 World Poetry Day: Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
A groundbreaking collection that celebrated the self, nature, and democracy. First published in 1855, Whitman revised and expanded it throughout his lifetime. Poetry that changed American literature forever.
Read for free in BookShelves:
https://lk0.eu/bks13m#Bookstodon #FediReads #FreeBooks #Classics #BookShelves #WorldPoetryDay #poetry #literature
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📖 "Call me Ishmael."
— Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
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https://lk0.eu/bks29m#Bookstodon #FediReads #FreeBooks #Classics #BookShelves #Literature
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📖 Pi Day Read: Flatland by Edwin Abbott Abbott
A mathematical satire where geometric shapes live in a two-dimensional world. Written in 1884, Flatland explores dimensions, perception, and social hierarchy through geometry. Mind-bending, witty, and surprisingly profound.
Read for free in BookShelves:
https://lk0.eu/bks12m#Bookstodon #FediReads #FreeBooks #Classics #BookShelves #PiDay #mathematics
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💡 Did You Know?
Jane Austen published all her novels anonymously — credited only to "A Lady."
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📖 International Women's Day: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
A fierce tale of an independent woman who refuses to compromise her principles. Published in 1847, Jane Eyre was revolutionary for its portrayal of a woman's inner life and moral strength. Still powerful today.
Read for free in BookShelves:
https://lk0.eu/bks11m#Bookstodon #FediReads #FreeBooks #Classics #BookShelves #WomensDay #literature
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📖 Read Across America Day: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Celebrate reading with this beloved tale of boyhood adventure along the Mississippi. Tom Sawyer's mischief, treasure hunting, and timeless fun have delighted readers for over a century.
Read for free in BookShelves:
https://lk0.eu/bks10m#Bookstodon #FediReads #FreeBooks #Classics #BookShelves #EBookReader #reading
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💡 Did You Know?
Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein at age 18 during a ghost story contest at Lake Geneva in 1816.
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Happy Valentine's Day! Our pick for today: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
Read it for free in BookShelves — over 100,000 classic books at your fingertips.
#Bookstodon #FediReads #Reading #EBooks #Classics #BookShelves #FreeBooks #ValentinesDay
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Meet BookShelves — your personal eBook library for macOS and iOS.
Read EPUB, PDF, MOBI, and more. Sync seamlessly with iCloud. Discover 100,000+ free books from Standard Ebooks, the Internet Archive, and more.
No account required. No tracking. Just you and your books.
Free on the App Store:
https://lk0.eu/bks1m#ebooks #reading #BookShelves #Bookstodon #FediReads #macOS #iOS #freebooks #indiedev
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