The Book Rambler
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If you're looking for random fun facts about bookish history, wordy nerdiness, and the (sometimes weird) lives of late authors, then you've found yourself the write page. I mean, uh, RIGHT.
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'The company has taken our books and used it to make money… it's taking it all for free.'
Andrew Rogers talks to the authors standing up against #Meta
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Andrew Rogers talks to the authors standing up against #Meta
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#books #reading #writing #publishing #AI
Meta AI book scraping: 'We need to speak up', say authors
Authors say their books have been taken without permission and used to train Meta's AI systems.
www.bbc.co.uk
April 3, 2025 at 5:03 PM
'The company has taken our books and used it to make money… it's taking it all for free.'
Andrew Rogers talks to the authors standing up against #Meta
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#books #reading #writing #publishing #AI
Andrew Rogers talks to the authors standing up against #Meta
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#books #reading #writing #publishing #AI
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Orcadian author Ann Scott-Moncrieff (1914–1943) was born #OTD, 11 January. Lesley Findlay, her daughter, talks about Ann’s life in Orkney, her writing, & her children’s stories – recently republished by Scotland Street Press
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Scotland Street Press | Who was Ann Scott-Moncrieff?
Lesley Findlay, daughter of Orcadian author Ann Scott-Moncrieff talks to Scotland Street Press about Ann’s life in Orkney, her writing and her Children's stories which have been republished as a colle...
www.scotlandstreetpress.com
January 11, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Orcadian author Ann Scott-Moncrieff (1914–1943) was born #OTD, 11 January. Lesley Findlay, her daughter, talks about Ann’s life in Orkney, her writing, & her children’s stories – recently republished by Scotland Street Press
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Happy World Typing Day!
Here is a link to a free typing test to see just how fast your fingers can fly
#WorldTypingDay
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Here is a link to a free typing test to see just how fast your fingers can fly
#WorldTypingDay
www.typing.com/student/tests
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January 8, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Happy World Typing Day!
Here is a link to a free typing test to see just how fast your fingers can fly
#WorldTypingDay
www.typing.com/student/tests
Here is a link to a free typing test to see just how fast your fingers can fly
#WorldTypingDay
www.typing.com/student/tests
Happy 134th birthday to the one and only Zora Neale Hurston! She was born in 1891, but don't tell the school board, because she did knock ten years off her age in order to finish high school for free. 🤫
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#zoranealehurston #blackliterature #booksky #amreading
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January 7, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Happy 134th birthday to the one and only Zora Neale Hurston! She was born in 1891, but don't tell the school board, because she did knock ten years off her age in order to finish high school for free. 🤫
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#zoranealehurston #blackliterature #booksky #amreading
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“Despite its premise of the distillation of evil through shapeshifting, the anchoring concerns of this gothic tale are profoundly & universally human”
Robert Louis Stevenson’s STRANGE CASE OF DR JEKYLL & MR HYDE was first published #OTD, 5 Jan, 1886
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Robert Louis Stevenson’s STRANGE CASE OF DR JEKYLL & MR HYDE was first published #OTD, 5 Jan, 1886
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Jekyll and Hyde: a tale of doubles, disguises, and our warring desires
Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic forces us to confront uncomfortable questions about morality and responsibility. Do the best of us have a repressed bad side, just waiting to get out?
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January 5, 2025 at 11:40 AM
“Despite its premise of the distillation of evil through shapeshifting, the anchoring concerns of this gothic tale are profoundly & universally human”
Robert Louis Stevenson’s STRANGE CASE OF DR JEKYLL & MR HYDE was first published #OTD, 5 Jan, 1886
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Robert Louis Stevenson’s STRANGE CASE OF DR JEKYLL & MR HYDE was first published #OTD, 5 Jan, 1886
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🌟 HAPPY SCIENCE FICTION DAY! 🌟
Did you know that Del Rey Books took its name from a female science fiction editor born with dwarfism? 🤔
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Did you know that Del Rey Books took its name from a female science fiction editor born with dwarfism? 🤔
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January 2, 2025 at 9:57 PM
🌟 HAPPY SCIENCE FICTION DAY! 🌟
Did you know that Del Rey Books took its name from a female science fiction editor born with dwarfism? 🤔
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Did you know that Del Rey Books took its name from a female science fiction editor born with dwarfism? 🤔
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Joyous Jólabókaflóð to yuletide readers everywhere! Even the non-Icelandic of us are familiar with the tradition of gifting books on Christmas Eve and reading them with a festive round of hot chocolate. But do you know when and why Iceland started their holiday book flood? 🤔
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December 24, 2024 at 4:37 PM
Joyous Jólabókaflóð to yuletide readers everywhere! Even the non-Icelandic of us are familiar with the tradition of gifting books on Christmas Eve and reading them with a festive round of hot chocolate. But do you know when and why Iceland started their holiday book flood? 🤔
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Yay, I just reached 100 followers! That's big doings for a loser like me. I hope everyone enjoys the fun fact rambles! 📚
December 23, 2024 at 6:30 PM
Yay, I just reached 100 followers! That's big doings for a loser like me. I hope everyone enjoys the fun fact rambles! 📚
In a last-minute Christmas panic for the writer in your life? 🤔🎁 Consider gifting them what TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD author Harper Lee got in 1956: a paid year off to write.
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December 23, 2024 at 6:21 PM
In a last-minute Christmas panic for the writer in your life? 🤔🎁 Consider gifting them what TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD author Harper Lee got in 1956: a paid year off to write.
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It's the most wonderful time of the year – when we tuck our tails and admit defeat on reaching our annual lofty reading goal. 🫣
Oh, well. We can't all be as good as President Teddy Roosevelt, who powered through multiple books per DAY.
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Oh, well. We can't all be as good as President Teddy Roosevelt, who powered through multiple books per DAY.
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December 12, 2024 at 11:30 AM
It's the most wonderful time of the year – when we tuck our tails and admit defeat on reaching our annual lofty reading goal. 🫣
Oh, well. We can't all be as good as President Teddy Roosevelt, who powered through multiple books per DAY.
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Oh, well. We can't all be as good as President Teddy Roosevelt, who powered through multiple books per DAY.
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Happy 113th birthday to Naguib Mahfouz, the first (and so far only) Arab writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature! 🥳📚
Of course, his impressive career wasn't without tension. He faced censorship and fundamentalist threats for his creative work and political opinions.
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Of course, his impressive career wasn't without tension. He faced censorship and fundamentalist threats for his creative work and political opinions.
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December 11, 2024 at 11:41 AM
Happy 113th birthday to Naguib Mahfouz, the first (and so far only) Arab writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature! 🥳📚
Of course, his impressive career wasn't without tension. He faced censorship and fundamentalist threats for his creative work and political opinions.
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Of course, his impressive career wasn't without tension. He faced censorship and fundamentalist threats for his creative work and political opinions.
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Happy 173rd birthday to Melvil Dewey! The American librarian was fresh out of undergrad when he invented his famous classification system, which is why we celebrate this as Dewey Decimal System Day. 🤓📚 Too bad Melvil was also a bit of an asshole...
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December 10, 2024 at 12:34 PM
Happy 173rd birthday to Melvil Dewey! The American librarian was fresh out of undergrad when he invented his famous classification system, which is why we celebrate this as Dewey Decimal System Day. 🤓📚 Too bad Melvil was also a bit of an asshole...
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Every writer finds a weird hill to die on. Gottlob Wilhelm Burmann just had a slightly weirder one than most: he refused to use the letter R. 🚫
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December 9, 2024 at 11:20 AM
Every writer finds a weird hill to die on. Gottlob Wilhelm Burmann just had a slightly weirder one than most: he refused to use the letter R. 🚫
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Thanks for the support :)
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Order at uk.bookshop.org/shop/Jam
Almost any #book you want often cheaper!
Choose Jam as your bookshop & I get 30% of the sale.
Bookshop.org was set up to to support small bookshops.
They sort your order & give us some help
#smallbusiness #books #bookshop #comics #manga
December 8, 2024 at 5:49 PM
Thanks for the support :)
Order at uk.bookshop.org/shop/Jam
Almost any #book you want often cheaper!
Choose Jam as your bookshop & I get 30% of the sale.
Bookshop.org was set up to to support small bookshops.
They sort your order & give us some help
#smallbusiness #books #bookshop #comics #manga
Order at uk.bookshop.org/shop/Jam
Almost any #book you want often cheaper!
Choose Jam as your bookshop & I get 30% of the sale.
Bookshop.org was set up to to support small bookshops.
They sort your order & give us some help
#smallbusiness #books #bookshop #comics #manga
No, you're not stupid for thinking, "Hey, like the video game," when you hear about THE GREAT GATSBY author's wife, Zelda Fitzgerald. Turns out, Hyrule's princess was named after her.
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December 8, 2024 at 11:25 AM
No, you're not stupid for thinking, "Hey, like the video game," when you hear about THE GREAT GATSBY author's wife, Zelda Fitzgerald. Turns out, Hyrule's princess was named after her.
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Small Business Saturday is the PERFECT day for our first independent bookstore spotlight: the Midtown Scholar! 📚✨
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December 7, 2024 at 2:17 PM
Small Business Saturday is the PERFECT day for our first independent bookstore spotlight: the Midtown Scholar! 📚✨
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I really doubt we'll be open today due to the insane weather. My heart is breaking, this is the most important month of the year for us. My plea: please don't go to Amazon, just hang tight, we'll be back on Monday. If you want to go online we have subscriptions on our website! 1/2
December 7, 2024 at 8:47 AM
I really doubt we'll be open today due to the insane weather. My heart is breaking, this is the most important month of the year for us. My plea: please don't go to Amazon, just hang tight, we'll be back on Monday. If you want to go online we have subscriptions on our website! 1/2
Random House was still finding its footing in 1932. They didn't even have their Penguin, yet... but that didn't stop them from taking the US Government to task on censorship.
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December 6, 2024 at 12:47 PM
Random House was still finding its footing in 1932. They didn't even have their Penguin, yet... but that didn't stop them from taking the US Government to task on censorship.
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Books make the best presents, (and are easy to wrap...) check out our gift guide!🎄 uk.bookshop.org/categories/m...
📚 Every sale supports independent bookshops
📦 Carbon neutral delivery
🌟 5 Star trustpilot rated
🎁 Gift wrap available
📚 Every sale supports independent bookshops
📦 Carbon neutral delivery
🌟 5 Star trustpilot rated
🎁 Gift wrap available
December 5, 2024 at 11:31 AM
Books make the best presents, (and are easy to wrap...) check out our gift guide!🎄 uk.bookshop.org/categories/m...
📚 Every sale supports independent bookshops
📦 Carbon neutral delivery
🌟 5 Star trustpilot rated
🎁 Gift wrap available
📚 Every sale supports independent bookshops
📦 Carbon neutral delivery
🌟 5 Star trustpilot rated
🎁 Gift wrap available
Agatha Christie's famous detective – well, one of them – was the first fictional character to receive an official obituary. 1/5 🧵👇
December 5, 2024 at 2:11 PM
Agatha Christie's famous detective – well, one of them – was the first fictional character to receive an official obituary. 1/5 🧵👇
How does a prissy white Martian enlisting men for her breeding program lead to the pioneering of Afrofuturism in literature? 🤔
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December 4, 2024 at 12:52 PM
How does a prissy white Martian enlisting men for her breeding program lead to the pioneering of Afrofuturism in literature? 🤔
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#Booksky If your house was on fire, what's the one thing you would save? For 17th-century naval administrator Samuel Pepys, the answer was obvious: cheese. 1/4👇🧵
December 3, 2024 at 11:54 AM
#Booksky If your house was on fire, what's the one thing you would save? For 17th-century naval administrator Samuel Pepys, the answer was obvious: cheese. 1/4👇🧵
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According to PEN America's most recent report, “Nineteen Minutes” by @jodipicoult.bsky.social—a book about a school shooting—is now the most banned book in American schools.
Meanwhile, active shooter drills have expanded to schools in 40 states.
According to PEN America's most recent report, “Nineteen Minutes” by @jodipicoult.bsky.social—a book about a school shooting—is now the most banned book in American schools.
Meanwhile, active shooter drills have expanded to schools in 40 states.
December 1, 2024 at 6:18 PM
What’s wrong with this picture?
According to PEN America's most recent report, “Nineteen Minutes” by @jodipicoult.bsky.social—a book about a school shooting—is now the most banned book in American schools.
Meanwhile, active shooter drills have expanded to schools in 40 states.
According to PEN America's most recent report, “Nineteen Minutes” by @jodipicoult.bsky.social—a book about a school shooting—is now the most banned book in American schools.
Meanwhile, active shooter drills have expanded to schools in 40 states.
Since WICKED is once again so 🎵popular🎶, I figured a fun fact about its source material might be in order. Well, its source material's source material's source – let's just get on with it.
American author L. Frank Baum got the name "Oz" from a filing cabinet: 1/5👇🧵
American author L. Frank Baum got the name "Oz" from a filing cabinet: 1/5👇🧵
December 2, 2024 at 10:56 AM
Since WICKED is once again so 🎵popular🎶, I figured a fun fact about its source material might be in order. Well, its source material's source material's source – let's just get on with it.
American author L. Frank Baum got the name "Oz" from a filing cabinet: 1/5👇🧵
American author L. Frank Baum got the name "Oz" from a filing cabinet: 1/5👇🧵