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Books @lemmy.world Feeee23 @lemmy.world F**k Amazon, part 2
Don't throw away your Kindle, Jailbreak it and take back ownership. Make your Kindle even better with KoReader and other apps. If you wanna see whats possible i recomment this Yt video. If you wanna get started here are all instructions: https://kindlemodding.org/ Don't let it scare you it seems complicated but its just a lot of (easy) steps. So definitely possible in <2h.
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Books @lemmy.world JaymesRS @literature.cafe Official Turn In Post for Bingo 2024!
Congratulations, and thank you for participating in the inaugural Book Bingo for c/[email protected]!
If the existence of this bingo is a surprise to you, or you want to revisit the guide, see this link.
If you would like to join us for 2025 bingo, we'll be posting information on the morning of May 1st, US Central Time (UTC -5)!
There are 2 official ways to submit your card and be recognized:
- Fill out the web form we made using Tally, which will organize the data for us. Completing the form will also give you a Markdown-friendly list to copy and post in this thread if you would like.
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::: spoiler 2024 Bingo Squares (click to expand) 1A: Older Than You Are - 1B: Water, Water Everywhere - 1C: What’s Yours is Mine - 1D: Family
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Books @lemmy.world moskaliuk @sh.itjust.works So many authors are still waiting for their stories to be adapted. Netflix: “Let’s do another Pride and Prejudice adaptation”
So many authors are still waiting for their stories to be adapted. Netflix: “Let’s do another Pride and Prejudice adaptation” 😳 Like… we already have two perfect versions.
I honestly can’t imagine a better Lizzy than Keira Knightley 🥲
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Books @lemmy.world JaymesRS @literature.cafe Murderbot Trailer has dropped
www.apple.com Apple TV+ debuts trailer for “Murderbot,” premiering May 16Apple TV+ unveiled the trailer for “Murderbot,” the comedic thriller series starring and executive produced by Emmy Award winner Alexander Skarsgård.
Seems to have the right tone, you also get a clip of Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon.
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Books @lemmy.world dresden @discuss.online What book(s) are you currently reading or listening? April 08
Weekly post was a bit irregular last few weeks, but we are back to Tuesday now.
Got back to reading, read a bit of Streams of Silver by R. A. Salvatore, also read a few hundred pages of different web novels.
What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening to lately?
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Books @lemmy.world LiLya_Armonds @sh.itjust.works The thing about Dark romance (TW: Discussions surrounding SA)
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/35593507
This post has been written with the intention of starting a conversation surrounding the discourse about dark romance, because I am tired of seeing opinions that are pure black and white from both sides. Feel free to disagree or agree with this post, I am only here to share my personal opinion.
What is Dark romance? I think that at this point most of us know what it is --a piece of fiction that is created from writing and/or drawing with the intention of exploring darker and more taboo fantasies. This can range from anything mild like bondage to something more extreme like sexual assault.
First I would like to say this: Our fantasies do not always align with our desires. You may fantasize about having someone put a loaded gun to your head because for some reason it entices you, but that does not mean that you wish it would happen in real life.
“But why would somebody fantasize about being assaulted?” Some migh
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Books @lemmy.world fujiwood @lemmy.world Dracula by Bram Stoker - Free Public Domain Ebook Download
https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/bram-stoker/dracula
Another free book, check your local public domain laws to verify. Enjoy!
"Dracula is one of the most famous horror novels, responsible not just for introducing the eponymous Count Dracula, but for laying the foundations for many of the common tropes we see in modern horror fiction."
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Books @lemmy.world dresden @discuss.online What book(s) are you currently reading or listening? April 03
Very busy couple of weeks, so didn't actually read anything.
Still on Streams of Silver by R. A. Salvatore, 2nd novel in Icewind Dale series, which is a subseries of Forgotten Realms series (D&D world).
What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening to lately?
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Books @lemmy.world cm0002 @lemmy.world 
www.theglobeandmail.com Review: New biography Ripper delivers a searing and convincing critique of Pierre PoilievreBourrie’s portrait of Poilievre describes him as the angriest person on Canada’s political stage and the nastiest leader of a major party in this country’s history
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gizmodo.com Tales of Merlin and King Arthur Resurface After 750 Years, Hidden in a Bookbinding500 years ago, someone decided to use parts of a now-rare manuscript to bind together property records.
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theterrestrialreader.wordpress.com Across the Galaxy, Looking for God – Planetfall (2015) by Emma NewmanRenata Ghali – also known as Ren – is one of the faithful who, a few decades before the events of the novel, travelled to a distant planet on an expedition led by her beloved Lee Suh-Mi…
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theterrestrialreader.wordpress.com Science: the Fanfiction – When We Cease to Understand the World (2020) by Benjamín LabatutIn this “nonfiction novel”, Labatut writes about the lives and discoveries of scientists such as Haber, Grothendieck, Heisenberg, Schrödinger, indulging in the most morbid details of their personal…
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Books @lemmy.world Yingwu @lemmy.dbzer0.com 
lifehacker.com You Can Remove DRM From Your Digital Books, but It's Probably IllegalDRM prevents you from downloading copies of books you've purchased from online storefronts, but is it legal to bypass DRM to create backups? Cory Doctorow, an expert on the DMCA, weighs in on the subject.
Title from the article. Interesting article, with some good words from our DRM-free favorite Cory Doctorow.
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Books @lemmy.world daveB @sh.itjust.works A bad king is a sad thing
I know this is a children’s book but I bought it for me. It seemed very relevant to our present situation.
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theterrestrialreader.wordpress.com Pristine, Eldritch Wilderness – Annihilation (2014) by Jeff VanderMeerA team of four women – a biologist, a psychologist, an anthropologist, and a surveyor – is sent on an expedition into Area X, a coastal region that has been cut off from the rest of the world for d…
