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@writingprompts@literature.cafe From a folder of mine labeled "Inspiration":

#writing #writingprompt #writingprompts #inspiration

(This is basically the prompt for #TangledChains - https://trouth.eu/tags/TangledChains )

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Cross-posted from "What were the practical consequences of Internet Archive losing their court case?" by @Yingwu@lemmy.dbzer0.com in !books@lemmy.world

It was talked about like a really big deal, and that it dealt a blow towards the Controlled Digital Lending-scheme. IA also had to remove 500k books. But how is Internet Archive able to keep continuing lending out many books as they were before? What were the real consequences of Hachette v. Internet Archive?

I have closed the lemmy.world community, and redirected it here.

Should benefit everyone :)

Cross-posted from "In Response to Amazon preventing to download books you bought: Some DRM free bookstores and publishers" by @juergen@feddit.org in !technology@lemmy.world

Not exactly the traditional type of ebook deals, but DRM-free is a major selling point for me since I like to actually own the books I buy.

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This might be the end of Libby/Hoopla/Boundless for a lot of smaller library systems. :(

That would be awesome!

Hands down, he has always been one of my favorite supernatural characters.

I just got my first ereader, and am wondering if anyone has suggestions as to where I can purchase books but also download them (.epub, etc) after purchasing. I want to support the authors, but I also want to actually own the thing I'm paying for. Is ebooks.com a good option?

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Every time I watch Bobby chuck the photo in the fire, I feel so sad that they would burn the last photo taken with Ellen and Jo!

I thought that maybe they wanted to erase a bad memory.

Idk.

But it made me sad every time.

But on todays 6 billionth watch I realised why!!

They burned the photo to give them some semblance of a hunters funeral because they didn't have their bodies to burn 😭😭

Link to Subreddit Post

Originally published in 2012. Winner of the Hugo Award and the Locus Award for Best Novelette.

Has an interesting style. I'm not crazy about it but obviously it's respected, so I thought some people here might like it.

Link: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/cadigan_02_18_reprint/

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Small release, except one notable "fix/feature" is the removal of PMs when a ban happens... I think we all know who that is for...

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He had never been in Corless’s but he knew the value of the name. He knew that people went there after the theatre to eat oysters and drink liqueurs; and he had heard that the waiters there spoke French and German. Walking swiftly by at night he had seen cabs drawn up before the door and richly dressed ladies, escorted by cavaliers, alight and enter quickly. They wore noisy dresses and many wraps. Their faces were powdered and they caught up their dresses, when they touched earth, like alarmed Atalantas. He had always passed without turning his head to look. It was his habit to walk swiftly in the street even by day and whenever he found himself in the city late at night he hurried on his way apprehensively and excitedly. Sometimes, however, he courted the causes of his fear. He chose the darkest and narrowest streets and, as he walked boldly forward, the silence that was spread about his footsteps troubled him, the wandering silent figures troubled him; and at times a sound of low fugitive laughter made him tremble like a leaf.

https://www.libraryofshortstories.com/storiespdf/a-little-cloud.pdf

This is titled "The Hardy Boy Poems" but they're really paragraph-long short stories, i.e. flash fiction stories which "hint at or imply a larger story".

The basis for these is the Hardy Boys series of books aimed at young boys. These were old even when I was a kid, but I keep seeing these "Hardly Boys" book cover edits on !memes@lemmy.world so people must still be aware of them.

This collection is more risque and suggestive of hidden violence and despair than the mainstream books. In the preface, the author (?) says this is in tribute to the "unwholesome but healthy amounts of anti-authoritarianism and lurid detail" that the original Hardy Boys books had before they were stripped of all such things in the late 50s. The result of these new stories is a world that is far more interesting, far more dangerous, and far more realistic than the world presented in the mainstream books.

Link to the collection: https://www.beardofbees.com/pubs/The_Hardy_Boy_Poems.pdf

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Stolen from here: https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/eca9e5a6-e00e-4967-a6a5-a9cf170f9a96.png