I’ve been doing the same thing—that and library.

Thank you for the confirmation! Viewing in my phone it was harder to tell. I was just in a thread on Reddit talking about how hard it is for younger people who came of age in our current, more-corporate/grabby webscape to be able to find quality content.
Another excellent example of why that’s true.

Grrrrrr

I’ve never had Google serve something like this to me nearly next to each other on the same page.
These days it feels like if it’s not content thieves then it’s AI-Slop. And little else.

I want BlogRolls back so I can avoid algorithms!

Yes please!

I have one left. Mansfield Park…no date yet, but it’s there…

Oh! And near the end—about 16 min left—a character will talk about society at the time the book was written (1925) that will either make you very happy to know that nothing’s changed since 1925 or quite freaked out that it hasn’t.

That was SO MUCH FUN! I was just thinking about you this weekend! 🥰

Hell, just paint the damn things with fake gold spray paint! He’ll buy thousands!

Can other countries PLEASE start using whatever human/humane connections they have left in the US to arranged to send masked bandits in to “steal” these things before they’re destroyed?

SOMEONE must want the credit for helping the world while we kill it.

Yes please!
(Or even annotated classic audiobook podcasts—for when you need to escape for longer than the length of a review).