If you were building a mini reference library for home, what would you include?

I'm thinking at least:
- first aid manual
- maps
- big dictionary (or multiple, if multilingual)
- some sort of chemical reference (I know nothing here, but I'm thinking for avoiding poisons, useful dilutions etc)
- cookbooks
- standard measurements and conversions
???

Would you have an encyclopaedia? Other things?

And so the publishing world began.

A very nice profile on books and illustrations: @oldbookillustrations

#books #download #illustrations

Estoy camuflado.

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#mastodon #friends #MastoPhotography #love
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@oldbookillustrations I have a different version of Howard Pyle's "Robin Hood", in Danish, with illustration by K. Hansen Reistrup - here's that same scene in his rendition 😊 the book is, uh, pretty well-loved (definitely not all by me, though I've had it since childhood, I can't remember when I got it but it was already almost in this condition) 🥰

I know a legit bookbinder, I should have her restore it once I can afford it...

http://Pragprog.com is carrying Staffan Nöteberg's Regular Expressions Machinery; Covers TDD + regex. ❤️ the illustrations!

details: https://medium.com/pragmatic-programmers/37e7f70f8a4a
ebook: https://pragprog.com/titles/d-snrem
sample images: https://youtu.be/dRQwTF6eOu4

please, please please indie authors: do not use AI ―and that includes online services like Adobe― to make photo-realistic images for your #books or their covers. it looks synthetic and cheap.

This library wheel is how you could have multiple tabs open in the days before web browsers.

Today in Labor History November 5, 1916: The Everett Massacre occurred in Everett, Washington. 300 IWW members arrived by boat in Everett to help support the shingle workers’ strike that had been going on for the past 5 months. Prior attempts to support the strikers were met with vigilante beatings with axe handles. As the boat pulled in, Sheriff McRae called out, “Who’s your leader?” The Wobblies answered, “We’re all leaders!” The sheriff pulled his gun and said, “You can’t land.” A Wobbly yelled back, “Like hell we can’t.” Gunfire erupted, most of it from the 200 vigilantes on the dock. When the smoke cleared, two of the sheriff’s deputies were dead, shot in the back by their own men, along with 5-12 Wobblies on the boat. Dozens more were wounded. The authorities arrested 74 Wobblies. After a trial, all charges were dropped against the IWW members. The event was referenced in John Dos Passos’s “USA Trilogy.”

#workingclass #LaborHistory #IWW #anarchism #Everett #massacre #vigilantes #police #policebrutality #union #strike #books #fiction #novel #writer #author @bookstadon

That time—today actually—when random guy mansplains The Handmaid’s Tale to the author of The Handmaid’s Tale.

The Phantom Tollbooth and a book about dinosaurs disappeared from the Not-Trademarked-Little-Box-With-Books-On-The-Curb! Apparently elementary school kids or their parents must have found the box!

Fucking seriously?

There remains a massive crisis in local library provision, largely hidden from the middle-classes with their kindles, high-speed broadband & delivery of books to home....

But for many, libraries are both an intellectual life-line & an engine of self improvement & stability (or even shelter).

Its yet another aspect of JK Galbraith's tendency in capitalism towards private affluence & public squalor....

Save our libraries from (even) more austerity

#libraries #books

Finished this yesterday and not sure what to think. In the end it was quite sad but for sure Ursula seemed to be exploring the nature of consciousness and morality. So much depth in the 180 or so pages it’s crazy.

Happy #FollowFriday, #art and #photography friends ❤️

@39exp - "a bit obsessed" with old photo gear and film

@garyhershorn - NYC-based photojournalist and photo editor

@oldbookillustrations - public domain, royalty-free restored images scanned from old #books

@Photowalks - LA-based writer-photographer and host of the "PhotowalksTV" travel photography show on YouTube

@sk76 - cool, eclectic images curated from digital archives

Hey does anyone remember a sci-fi/fantasy story about magic reasserting itself in the world and people becoming like elves and orcs and shit?

This would be pre-2003

Octavia E. Butler's "must read" masterpiece #ParableOfTheSower (1993) begins its first chapter on July 20, 2024.