The AI slop before AI? And yet, it’s a source of inspiration for comedy, and it touches upon some core challenges of translation that anyone that has learned a second language will immediately recognize and feel a shared sense of connection with.

⠋craunching marmosets…

Back in the 90s Terry Pratchett changed his German Publisher because they put in a soup advert in one of his books without asking, and would not promise to not do it again.

Open source book dedicated to helping you to make the best possible sourdough bread at home.

Flow is a progressive web app (PWA) to read ebooks (ePUB files). It supports searching within the books and storing and syncing annotations to dropbox.

Internet Archive maintainers comment on how much more work it is to preserve digital books than physical copies.

A little post on why publishing statistics are so confusing.

Short introduction to English as She Is Spoke: a 19th-century book that was intended as a Portugues-English phrase book; however, as the “English” translations provided are usually inaccurate or incoherent, is regarded as a classic source of unintentional humour in translation.