#books

when reading a book and a character comes to life

#smol #books #caturday #caturdayeveryday

https://www.solarpunkstories.com/buy-our-1st-story

Until next Wednesday you can download for free and without giving your credit card details the first installment of a solarpunk noir series set in a green London. You just need to use the discount code: FREE_FOR_YOU_SOLARPUNK

It is also the first of the #books published by "Solarpunk Stories", the first publishing house specialized in our favorite genre.

The Renaissance of Astronomy by Noel Swerdlow, 2026

The Renaissance of Astronomy provides a comprehensive, technically grounded account of the works of Regiomontanus, Copernicus, Tycho, Kepler and Galileo. There is nothing comparable to it in scope and detail. It is the fruit of a lifetime of study devoted to the subject.

#books
#nonfiction
#astronomy
#history
#Renaissance
#Springer

Work in progress wednesday is here again. So, I give you the opening quote of the 11th chapter of The Last Philosopher: Part Two 😁

1€ ebook of Part One: https://books2read.com/u/m0pJYA

#WIPWednesday #WorkInProgress
#Quote #Quotes #BookQuote
#AmWriting #IndieAuthor #eBook
#FantasyBooks #Fantasy #WorldBuilding #SciFi #Satire #Humor #Humour #Comedy
#Novel #Books #Bookstodon
#Reading #Readers #ReadingCommunity

The opposite of mass-destroying books to feed AI is this 1-minute video 📽️ of Charlotte Wainwright restoring and saving old/ancient books ...

(Definitely worth a watch)

https://www.wainwrightbookbinding.com/

#bookstodon #books

As seen from my local bookstore #books #photography #sji

Anthropic spent billions of dollars to slice the spines off millions of books, including very rare ones.

AI companies are purchasing large quantities of used and rare books and scanning their contents to train LLMs. They then turn the originals to pulp.

The sum of human thought, digitized and shredded. Every book that gets scanned disappears from the physical world permanently.

Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email.

#AI #Books #Culture #Civilization #Tech #LLMs

Hau ZORAGARRIA da, jakintzaren aldetik -Herkulanoko liburutegiko liburuak!- eta zientzia irekiaren aldetik 💜
https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_org/116821334604477915
gutenberg_org@mastodon.social - We read an entire scroll — without ever opening it

PHerc. 1667, sealed since the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, has been virtually unwrapped and read from beginning to end.

https://scrollprize.org/firstscroll

More information about the Herculaneum Papyrus Scrolls project:
https://www2.cs.uky.edu/dri/herculaneum-papyrus-scrolls/

#books #literature #old_Manuscripts