Annie the Book
@anniethebook.bsky.social
Academic librarian, velocireader, cat parent.
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Keep in mind there is no law saying bagels are only for the morning. If you want a 9PM bagel, that’s fine. You can just do that.
November 13, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Keep in mind there is no law saying bagels are only for the morning. If you want a 9PM bagel, that’s fine. You can just do that.
Now wondering about delivering reference help by seance. It would be a complete pain in the ass to do citation help via ouija board.
Wait, what? Doing research on various models of embedded librarianship and came across an unusual bit of vocabulary.
#LibraryLife #LibrarianProblems
#LibraryLife #LibrarianProblems
November 13, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Now wondering about delivering reference help by seance. It would be a complete pain in the ass to do citation help via ouija board.
Wait, what? Doing research on various models of embedded librarianship and came across an unusual bit of vocabulary.
#LibraryLife #LibrarianProblems
#LibraryLife #LibrarianProblems
November 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Wait, what? Doing research on various models of embedded librarianship and came across an unusual bit of vocabulary.
#LibraryLife #LibrarianProblems
#LibraryLife #LibrarianProblems
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Imagine being a tree. Day to day, month to month everyone thinks you're just sitting there. But you're not. You're an unstoppable force. A juggernaut. You will destroy concrete, brick, rock. All you need is time.
November 13, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Imagine being a tree. Day to day, month to month everyone thinks you're just sitting there. But you're not. You're an unstoppable force. A juggernaut. You will destroy concrete, brick, rock. All you need is time.
Students! I am here at the research help desk for two whole hours. Why the hell are you asking me your in-depth and/or complicated questions all at the same time?!?
#LibraryLife #LibrarianProblems
#LibraryLife #LibrarianProblems
November 12, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Students! I am here at the research help desk for two whole hours. Why the hell are you asking me your in-depth and/or complicated questions all at the same time?!?
#LibraryLife #LibrarianProblems
#LibraryLife #LibrarianProblems
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Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
This is the most awesome game I have ever heard of!
There's a card game based on this! It's called Brother, Why? And you play monks in the manuscriptorium who have to justify all the weird marginalia you added to the Bible while drunk. boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/44...
Brother, Why?
Medieval monks try to justify their absurd margin illustrations.
boardgamegeek.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:56 PM
This is the most awesome game I have ever heard of!
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I don’t know who needs to hear this, but your desire to inhale the pages of every book you pick up is something you never need to apologize for.
Anyone who tells you otherwise doesn’t belong in your circle of friends.
Anyone who tells you otherwise doesn’t belong in your circle of friends.
November 12, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but your desire to inhale the pages of every book you pick up is something you never need to apologize for.
Anyone who tells you otherwise doesn’t belong in your circle of friends.
Anyone who tells you otherwise doesn’t belong in your circle of friends.
Hey, @thetls.bsky.social ! I would really love to renew my subscription but there's no online option to do this and it's been radio silence from the email I was told to contact. What should I do to get my access restored?
Thank you for your time!
Thank you for your time!
November 12, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Hey, @thetls.bsky.social ! I would really love to renew my subscription but there's no online option to do this and it's been radio silence from the email I was told to contact. What should I do to get my access restored?
Thank you for your time!
Thank you for your time!
Alison Green has advice for all of us if ICE shows up at our workplaces: www.askamanager.org/2025/11/what...
what to do if ICE agents come to your workplace
With aggressive ICE raids expanding to an increasing number of cities, I’m sharing the following guidance from a community organizer in Chicago about what to do if ICE shows up at your workplace. I’m ...
www.askamanager.org
November 12, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Alison Green has advice for all of us if ICE shows up at our workplaces: www.askamanager.org/2025/11/what...
I love how bonkers science can be: boingboing.net/2025/11/12/n...
"Scientists have discovered a new species, and I have learned the word for fossilized vomit — regurgitalite."
"Scientists have discovered a new species, and I have learned the word for fossilized vomit — regurgitalite."
New pterosaur species discovered in fossilized vomit
Scientists have discovered a new species, and I have learned the word for fossilized vomit — regurgitalite. In a paper published in Scientific Reports, researchers reveal a new species of…
boingboing.net
November 12, 2025 at 4:44 PM
I love how bonkers science can be: boingboing.net/2025/11/12/n...
"Scientists have discovered a new species, and I have learned the word for fossilized vomit — regurgitalite."
"Scientists have discovered a new species, and I have learned the word for fossilized vomit — regurgitalite."
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Pair of charmingly grumpy owls out on skates for winter fun. Have even brought along a snack! By Adriaen van de Venne, who died (alas!) on this day 1662.
November 12, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Pair of charmingly grumpy owls out on skates for winter fun. Have even brought along a snack! By Adriaen van de Venne, who died (alas!) on this day 1662.
A quest for atonement! A healer! A whole lot of walking! I read Eugene Vodolazkin's Laurus: www.abookishtype.com/2025/11/11/l...
#BookReview
#BookReview
Laurus, by Eugene Vodolazkin
My quest to read books in as many places and times as possible has brought me to Eugene Vodolazkin’s (beautifully and thoughtfully translated by Lisa Hayden) curious hagiography/historical fi…
www.abookishtype.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:32 AM
A quest for atonement! A healer! A whole lot of walking! I read Eugene Vodolazkin's Laurus: www.abookishtype.com/2025/11/11/l...
#BookReview
#BookReview
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You go to one wild crazy party and do a few silly things, wake up relieved that photo cameras and social media don't exist yet and that soon everyone will have forgotten... but someone made a drawing...
Bernardus Paludanus's album(1550-1633)
National Library of the Netherlands
Bernardus Paludanus's album(1550-1633)
National Library of the Netherlands
November 12, 2025 at 3:37 AM
You go to one wild crazy party and do a few silly things, wake up relieved that photo cameras and social media don't exist yet and that soon everyone will have forgotten... but someone made a drawing...
Bernardus Paludanus's album(1550-1633)
National Library of the Netherlands
Bernardus Paludanus's album(1550-1633)
National Library of the Netherlands
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I think the book that just fundamentally rewrote my sense of what a book could be is Italo Calvino’s “If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler”, a book you should absolutely know nothing about before reading it for the ideal, maddening experience
performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
November 12, 2025 at 1:56 AM
I think the book that just fundamentally rewrote my sense of what a book could be is Italo Calvino’s “If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler”, a book you should absolutely know nothing about before reading it for the ideal, maddening experience
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My mentions are full of people telling me not just about the books but about moments in their lives reading gave them, ppl who passed these titles along, the accidental match making of a book and reader in random shops and libraries, and of course, how words on a page made them into someone new 😭❤️
performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
November 12, 2025 at 1:43 AM
My mentions are full of people telling me not just about the books but about moments in their lives reading gave them, ppl who passed these titles along, the accidental match making of a book and reader in random shops and libraries, and of course, how words on a page made them into someone new 😭❤️
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This is what I try to always tell people: food banks can do way more with your money than you can, due to bulk buying deals. And they can do way, way more with your money than with the canned goods you didn’t want to eat
spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
November 11, 2025 at 9:21 PM
This is what I try to always tell people: food banks can do way more with your money than you can, due to bulk buying deals. And they can do way, way more with your money than with the canned goods you didn’t want to eat
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Let him have time to see his friends his foes,
And merry fools to mock at him resort;
Let him have time to mark how slow time goes
In time of sorrow, and how swift and short
His time of folly and his time of ;
And ever let his crime
Have time to wail th’ abusing of his time.
And merry fools to mock at him resort;
Let him have time to mark how slow time goes
In time of sorrow, and how swift and short
His time of folly and his time of ;
And ever let his crime
Have time to wail th’ abusing of his time.
November 11, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Let him have time to see his friends his foes,
And merry fools to mock at him resort;
Let him have time to mark how slow time goes
In time of sorrow, and how swift and short
His time of folly and his time of ;
And ever let his crime
Have time to wail th’ abusing of his time.
And merry fools to mock at him resort;
Let him have time to mark how slow time goes
In time of sorrow, and how swift and short
His time of folly and his time of ;
And ever let his crime
Have time to wail th’ abusing of his time.
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Apple appears to have reinvented the 17th-century pocket. www.vam.ac.uk/articles/wom...
November 11, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Apple appears to have reinvented the 17th-century pocket. www.vam.ac.uk/articles/wom...
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Speaking of performative reading, it's a myth that librarians spend all their time at work reading, performatively. They're too busy working.
November 10, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Speaking of performative reading, it's a myth that librarians spend all their time at work reading, performatively. They're too busy working.
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Will remember this excuse next time I want to cancel a class...
November 10, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Will remember this excuse next time I want to cancel a class...
TIL about marcas de fuego and now I'm thinking about librarians branding books and releasing them to graze in the pastures.
Whoopie tye yi yo, get along little bookies!
Whoopie tye yi yo, get along little bookies!
for reference, on a 1554 commentary on dioscorides, which definitely spent some time in Stuttgart and has a manuscript waste (+ alum tawed pigskin iirc) binding
November 10, 2025 at 6:20 PM
TIL about marcas de fuego and now I'm thinking about librarians branding books and releasing them to graze in the pastures.
Whoopie tye yi yo, get along little bookies!
Whoopie tye yi yo, get along little bookies!
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tell me you don't miss the language of the 19C
November 10, 2025 at 3:55 PM
tell me you don't miss the language of the 19C
Read ALL the books!
November 10, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Read ALL the books!
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Hey, a lot of people are talking about changing affiliation from Democratic to Independent.
Let me tell you why you shouldn’t do that in Colorado.
One of the main ways to get a primary challenge candidate on a ballot is to caucus for your party. You need to be registered as a Dem to caucus.
Let me tell you why you shouldn’t do that in Colorado.
One of the main ways to get a primary challenge candidate on a ballot is to caucus for your party. You need to be registered as a Dem to caucus.
November 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Hey, a lot of people are talking about changing affiliation from Democratic to Independent.
Let me tell you why you shouldn’t do that in Colorado.
One of the main ways to get a primary challenge candidate on a ballot is to caucus for your party. You need to be registered as a Dem to caucus.
Let me tell you why you shouldn’t do that in Colorado.
One of the main ways to get a primary challenge candidate on a ballot is to caucus for your party. You need to be registered as a Dem to caucus.