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  1. @exlibrarykris

    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.

    #panamaproject #ingestion #oldbooks #books

  2. #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. academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/art

    #science #history #literature #medieval #CulturalHeritage #books #oldbooks

  3. #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. academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/art

    #science #history #literature #medieval #CulturalHeritage #books #oldbooks

  4. 🤔💡 "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! 🚀😂"
    notes.lorenzogravina.com/musin #oldbooks #artisanwriting #modernauthors #AItools #literarymanifesto #HackerNews #ngated

  5. 🤔💡 "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! 🚀😂"
    notes.lorenzogravina.com/musin #oldbooks #artisanwriting #modernauthors #AItools #literarymanifesto #HackerNews #ngated

  6. @oldbookillustrations Thinking on this, a pity Hetzel editor never thought on Doré for illustrating Verne's books :AI_Yay: #illustration #art #ChildrensBook #oldbooks

  7. @oldbookillustrations Thinking on this, a pity Hetzel editor never thought on Doré for illustrating Verne's books :AI_Yay: #illustration #art #ChildrensBook #oldbooks

  8. fromoldbooks.org/pictures-of-o

    Some of the more photogenic books whose images i’ve scanned for 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).

    #fobo #oldBooks #books #photograph #colour #color #canon

  9. fromoldbooks.org/pictures-of-o

    Some of the more photogenic books whose images i’ve scanned for 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).

    #fobo #oldBooks #books #photograph #colour #color #canon

  10. fromoldbooks.org/Darboy-Imitat

    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

  11. fromoldbooks.org/Darboy-Imitat

    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

  12. @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.

    #OldBooks #ProjectGutenberg

  13. @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.

    #OldBooks #ProjectGutenberg

  14. 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

  15. 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

  16. ✏️ A handwritten Arabic translation of Hammer’s “Ancient Alphabets and Hieroglyphic Characters Explained with an Account of Egyptian Priests”, prepared in Istanbul, Late 19th Century #oldbooks