14 Nov 23

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.

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16 May 23

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

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27 Nov 22

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.

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16 Nov 22

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

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11 Sep 22

24 Dec 21

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.

by mlb 4 years ago