#oldbooks — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #oldbooks, aggregated by home.social.
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I found a copy of Kepler's 'Somnium' that had the original latin but every other page was an English translation, super fun, and you get so much more in context!
Does anyone know if there's anything like that for the original 'Steganographia' by Trithemius? It's just for personal use (I dabble in codes). For just latin it's pretty easy to find:
https://archive.org/details/SteganographiaBSB1608Thinking of #bookstodon #booksky #books #history #oldbooks #libraries #bookclub #latin #bookhistory @overholt
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This is the third post I am making on this fabricated "outrage"
When I death cleaned my parents house, I threw out close to 1000 books.
Threw out as in recycling, together with plastic bottles and aluminum foil.
NO ONE WANTED MY OLD BOOKS.
NOT EVEN FOR FREE.Let me repeat that for the pearl clutching folks in the back.
NO ONE FUCKING WANTED MY OLD BOOKS !!!
At least ingested into the orphan crushing machine, they may survive in some form.
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Cat paw prints found in 15th-century books
https://www.uu.nl/en/news/cat-paw-prints-found-in-15th-century-books
#UtrechtUniversity #UniversityLibrary #Utrecht #Science #Cats #Books #OldBooks #SpecialCollections
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AI firms are buying up old books then scanning and destroying them 😡🤬
https://www.instagram.com/p/DbYWp3ymjx0/?igsh=Y2dqcjA3b2M1aDdp
#FuckAI #AIisTheft #AIsucks #AI #uspol #GreedyFuckers #books #library #piracy #literature #aithieves #oldbooks #greed #laststagecapitalism #BookLover #livro
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#LostLiterature: Jean-Baptiste Camps and colleagues use a complexity science approach to estimate the amount of lost literature among #chivalric narratives, beginning in the 12th century. Agent-based simulations suggest that up to 60% of texts and more than 95% of #manuscripts may have been lost. https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/5/7/pgag207/8724046
#science #history #literature #medieval #CulturalHeritage #books #oldbooks
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🤔💡 "Oh wow, a whole manifesto on liking old books because they were made with *actual* human hands! 📚👌 Clearly, modern authors and their AI tools just don't compare to the artisanal wordsmithing of yore. 🙄 Maybe someone should tell the 21st century to slow down, so Lorenzo Gravina can catch up! 🚀😂"
https://notes.lorenzogravina.com/musings/pre-2022-books #oldbooks #artisanwriting #modernauthors #AItools #literarymanifesto #HackerNews #ngated -
I LOVE restaurants that have lots of old books by every table!
Excellent sandwiches, too.
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@oldbookillustrations Thinking on this, a pity Hetzel editor never thought on Doré for illustrating Verne's books :AI_Yay: #illustration #art #ChildrensBook #oldbooks
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#bondia ilustrad@s :ablobcatnomcookie: #oldbooks Rubén Darío #literatura #poetry
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@publicdomainrev And it has a STUNNING cover!
#oldbook #oldbooks #beautiful #bookcovers #1800s -
Zum #DrachenDienstag (hab ich mir ausgedacht) eine Abbildung von 1473 aus der @stabihh
#hamburgerkulturgutdigital #iiifbooks #oldbooks #monstermonday
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https://www.fromoldbooks.org/pictures-of-old-books/pages/img_7378-stack-of-books/
Some of the more photogenic books whose images i’ve scanned for https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ - a photo i took back in 2007.
Charles Knight’s two-volume “Old England’ on the bottom is what started it all.
Canon EF-S 17-18mm IS lens, f/5.6 at 1/13th sec, camera EOS 400D (Digital Rebel XTi).
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https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Darboy-ImitationOfChrist/pages/310-full-page-christian-border/
A full-page border, or page surround, featuring Christian religious figures, birds, and a crocodile or dragon (which is intended? i am uncertain). It’s from an 1855 edition of Imitation of Christ.
#vintageEngraving #christianity #border #A4 #GIMP #GIMP3 #xsane #Darboy #imitationOfChrist #oldBooks #fobo
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strangely my #ChildrensBooks are looking quite #antiquarian now. when did that happen? https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2026/04/books-growing-old-with-me.html #oldbooks #memories #reading
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Do you know The Bobbsey Twins? Come join me at 1pm NZT as we get to know the twins and their world. twitch.tv/jevvvnz #TwitchANZ #NZStreams #NZTwitch #VintageAdventureStory #OldBooks #ReadingAloud #CodexReaders #NotAnAudiobook #DrinksSnacksComfy #LinkInBio #NoPolitics #NoSports
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@unusnemo
Oh yes. In fact I read a bit about the history of absolute zero when this conversation started. It's fascinating to see how they estimated where the bottom of the scale was, and how they then refined that number over the centuries. -
1) När man är mycket gammal har man massor av information i sitt huvud men vet inte vad, eller var man stoppat den.
2) Det praktiska med att vara gammal, glömsk och kontroversiell är att andra också har en massa information om en.
3) Fast eftersom man är glömsk, vet man inte vilken information som går att lita på. Vad gjorde jag 1789? En slumpvis utvald högstadieelev vet bara obetydligt mindre om det än jag. #böcker #books #historia #oldbooks -
Post to blog : Smartphonography Club : The Boundless Library of Jinbocho
#Xiaomi #Xiaomi15TPro #smartphonography #photography #streetphotography #Tokyo #Japan #UsedBooks #TokyoBookstore #Jimbocho #OldBookshttps://www.smartphonography.club/2026/03/the-boundless-library-of-jinbocho/