#fedireads — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #fedireads, aggregated by home.social.
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💡 Did You Know?
Emily Brontë published Wuthering Heights under the male pseudonym "Ellis Bell." She died the following year at 30.
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📖 Book Lovers Day: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald's dazzling portrait of the Jazz Age — wealth, longing, and the elusive American Dream. Through the eyes of Nick Carraway, we witness the tragic grandeur of Jay Gatsby's obsession. Short, sharp, and unforgettable.
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https://lk0.eu/bks22m#Bookstodon #FediReads #FreeBooks #Classics #BookShelves #BookLoversDay #Fitzgerald #literature
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📖 "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
— Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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https://lk0.eu/bks38m#Bookstodon #FediReads #FreeBooks #Classics #BookShelves #Literature
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💡 Did You Know?
Oscar Wilde wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray in three weeks. Reviewers called it "unclean" and "poisonous."
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📖 "We learn from failure, not from success!"
— Bram Stoker, Dracula
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https://lk0.eu/bks37m#Bookstodon #FediReads #FreeBooks #Classics #BookShelves #Literature
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💡 Did You Know?
Lewis Carroll invented Alice in Wonderland during a boat trip to entertain the real Alice Liddell, age 10.
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Two new fonts in BookShelves: Accessible DfA, designed for maximum readability, and iA Writer Duospace, a balanced monospace-proportional hybrid. That's 10 built-in fonts now, including OpenDyslexic and Atkinson Hyperlegible.
What's your favorite reading font?
#Bookstodon #FediReads #ebooks #reading #BookShelves #fonts #typography #accessibility
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📖 Bastille Day Read: A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." Dickens' sweeping novel of the French Revolution follows lives caught between London and Paris during history's most tumultuous era. A story of love, sacrifice, and redemption with one of literature's greatest openings.
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https://lk0.eu/bks21m#Bookstodon #FediReads #FreeBooks #Classics #BookShelves #BastilleDay #CharlesDickens #literature
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Wussten Sie? Saviez-vous? Did you know?
BookShelves speaks 33 languages. The entire app adapts to your language, not just the books you read. From right-to-left Arabic and Hebrew to vertical Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Hindi, Thai, and 25 more.
Viel Spass beim Lesen! Bonne lecture! Buena lectura!
#Bookstodon #FediReads #ebooks #reading #BookShelves #multilingual #accessibility #i18n
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📖 "When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?"
— Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote
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https://lk0.eu/bks36m#Bookstodon #FediReads #FreeBooks #Classics #BookShelves #Literature
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New feature: BookShelves now lets you fine-tune font weight from thin to bold with a 5-stop slider, powered by variable weight fonts. Your eyes, your rules.
What font weight do you prefer when reading on screen?
#Bookstodon #FediReads #ebooks #reading #BookShelves #typography #accessibility
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📖 Independence Day Read: Common Sense by Thomas Paine
The 1776 pamphlet that ignited a revolution. Thomas Paine's bold, plainspoken argument for American independence galvanized the colonies and changed the course of history. One of the most influential political works ever written.
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https://lk0.eu/bks20m#Bookstodon #FediReads #FreeBooks #Classics #BookShelves #IndependenceDay #ThomasPaine #history
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💡 Did You Know?
Arthur Conan Doyle killed off Sherlock Holmes in 1893 because he was tired of writing him. Public outrage forced Holmes back.
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Just added to BookShelves: two-page spread mode. View your EPUBs in a side-by-side layout for a proper book-like reading experience on wider screens.
Single page or two-page spread - which do you prefer?
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📖 "All human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope."
— Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
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New in BookShelves: vertical text support for Japanese and Chinese books. Tategaki (縦書き) renders with continuous horizontal scroll. Scroll wheel, keyboard navigation, and reading progress all work in the correct direction.
Do you read Japanese or Chinese literature? What are you reading?
#Bookstodon #FediReads #ebooks #Japanese #Chinese #BookShelves #tategaki #reading
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📖 Juneteenth Read: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Born into slavery, Douglass taught himself to read and wrote this searing firsthand account of his journey to freedom. Published in 1845, it became a powerful voice in the abolitionist movement and remains essential American literature.
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https://lk0.eu/bks19m#Bookstodon #FediReads #FreeBooks #Classics #BookShelves #Juneteenth #FrederickDouglass #literature
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📖 Bloomsday Read: Dubliners by James Joyce
Fifteen short stories capturing life in early 20th-century Dublin — intimate, sharp, and beautifully observed. From childhood to maturity, Joyce reveals the quiet epiphanies of ordinary lives. The perfect entry point to one of literature's greatest writers.
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https://lk0.eu/bks18m#Bookstodon #FediReads #FreeBooks #Classics #BookShelves #Bloomsday #JamesJoyce #literature
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Did you know? You can tap any word while reading in BookShelves to look it up in the dictionary. It uses the book's language automatically, so it works for translations too.
Do you read in more than one language? What's the best book you've read in translation?
#Bookstodon #FediReads #ebooks #reading #BookShelves #dictionary #languages #translation
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💡 Did You Know?
Robert Louis Stevenson wrote Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde in three days, inspired by a nightmare.
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Did you know? BookShelves now has a scroll reading mode. Switch between page-by-page and continuous scroll in the reader menu. Scroll mode loads every chapter into one flowing document, no page breaks.
Your position is tracked either way, so you can switch back anytime.
Are you a page turner or a scroller?
#Bookstodon #FediReads #ebooks #reading #BookShelves #ScrollMode
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📖 "I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship."
— Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
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https://lk0.eu/bks34m#Bookstodon #FediReads #FreeBooks #Classics #BookShelves #Literature
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Did you know? BookShelves has full right-to-left support. Arabic, Hebrew, and other RTL languages just work. Page direction, navigation, swipe gestures, and the table of contents all follow the book's reading direction automatically.
Reading anything in Arabic or Hebrew lately? How's the EPUB selection for RTL languages these days?
#Bookstodon #FediReads #ebooks #Arabic #Hebrew #RTL #BookShelves #reading
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💡 Did You Know?
Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in six weeks to pay off debts. Published December 19, 1843.
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Did you know? You can export your highlights and notes from BookShelves as Markdown, JSON, or CSV. Right-click any book, pick your format, done.
Great for study notes, blog posts, or just keeping your favorite passages somewhere permanent.
How do you organize your reading notes?
#Bookstodon #FediReads #ebooks #reading #BookShelves #notes #markdown
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📖 Towel Day Sci-Fi Read: The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
H.G. Wells invented time travel fiction with this 1895 novella. Journey to the year 802,701, where humanity has split into two species — the gentle Eloi and the sinister Morlocks. Short, gripping, and endlessly influential.
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https://lk0.eu/bks17m#Bookstodon #FediReads #FreeBooks #Classics #BookShelves #TowelDay #SciFi #literature
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📖 "Not being heard is no reason for silence."
— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
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https://lk0.eu/bks33m#Bookstodon #FediReads #FreeBooks #Classics #BookShelves #Literature
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Did you know? BookShelves reads comics too. CBZ, CBR, and CB7 files with two-page spreads, smooth page turns, bookmarks, and dark chrome that keeps the focus on the art.
Manga readers: it also supports right-to-left page order.
What comics are you reading right now?
#Bookstodon #FediReads #comics #manga #ebooks #BookShelves #CBZ
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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