100 Million Books

Explore all the books ever written...and discover the best ideas ever published.

[100 Million Books @100millionbooks]

Using prestige as a metric for media credibility is dead. We're all on our own.

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[100 Million Books @100millionbooks]

Some real gems popping up on Hystoria, like this one from @farnamstreet.

"Avoiding Stupidity is Easier than Seeking Brilliance"

https://t.co/c7EQ7GLF02

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Less than 24 hours in and already 100 registered users and some interesting posts!

Excited to see where this goes.

[Christoph Matthies | @[email protected] @chrisma0]

What a great idea @100millionbooks: "we beat the hysteria of the present by rediscovering the past—all items posted here must be at least 5 years old."
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@chrisma0 let's see how it works out! so far response has been great. and some very cool items have been posted so far too.

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Maybe focusing on up-to-the-second breaking news all the time isn't healthy for our minds...or for society.

Say hello to Hystoria, where only OLD news is allowed.

https://t.co/rCkIuCXPfw

[Pessimists Archive @PessimistsArc]

1900: Librarian says free libraries = too much reading

“Great care must be exercised by parents to see that their children do not read too much”

“When visiting a school recently 3 pupils in one room were noticed reading books under their desks"

Source: https://t.co/2sspJeDfb7

[Justin Spratt @justinspratt]

“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.”
― Aurelius, Meditations

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"With DRM, you don’t buy and own books, you merely rent them for as long as the retailer finds it convenient."

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@_gareth fixed. sorry about that...was using third-party cdn to serve certain css, and their ssl cert expired.

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@_gareth weird, sorry about that. will investigate and fix.

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Got filter bubble? Want more? Well then here's your tool.

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This is nonsense. Librery is coming.

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[Alex Berenson @AlexBerenson]

Oh fuck me. I can’t believe it. They censored it.

[The Kronstadt Gardener 🇵🇸 @ThomasAwful]

Can't get over how many novels are still subtitled "A Novel"

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Messed up. Need distribution channels not controlled by such imbeciles.

[Podcast Addict @PodcastAddict]

Google has just suspended Podcast Addict again. This time for having Podcasts about Covid 19... Are you for real Google. Can you please check your own Google Podcast App, your search engine,Youtube, ... first

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

Let's boost some indie bookstores.

If you have a favorite local shop doing mail order—or a fund for furloughed employees/publishing folks—consider this an open thread to promote them.

[100 Million Books @100millionbooks]

Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: patī. It does not mean to flow with exuberance.

It means to suffer.

House of Leaves
Danielewski

[Wrath Of Gnon @wrathofgnon]

“Growth once served us, but now we serve growth...In pursuit of growth nationally, we have rendered our cities financially insolvent.”
— Strong Towns, Charles L. Marohn

[100 Million Books @100millionbooks]

New extension update!

It ships a long-requested feature: exporting a list of your favorites.

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Žižek's recent book on the virus is largely unremarkable, but this part stood out.

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"If I were a copyright, the law would say that the online publisher has but a short time to fix an infringement or face significant legal penalties. The rules defending real people should not be anything less."

Bravo @lessig!

https://t.co/Pxs9AC9GyC