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Shepherd's new bookshelves are live! Woohoo! We've been working on these a long time and excited to show them to you -> build.shepherd.com/p/launch-par...

The best cricket histories Duncan Stone shares the 5 best books on cricket histories. Have you read Beyond a Boundary?

A couple of Dan’s overlap with my five fav #cricket #history #books: shepherd.com/best-books/c...

Super excited to see this!!!

Six Centuries of Type & Printing: New Edition Help create an affordably priced version of this book that spans 600 years of the history of typography, type casting, and printing

A really cool Kickstarter celebrating printing, take a look -> www.kickstarter.com/projects/gle...

Time to fly to europe to buy lol

I am still optimisic about this Kickstarter campaign despite having accidentally launched it so its mid-point is into the worst economic crisis point in decades.

As an independent writer and creator, the winds blow us like maple seeds where they will. (Yes, book is being printed in Canada🍁.)

"If America hasn't broken your heart, you haven't loved her enough."

Corey Booker, just now.

Beautiful 🤩

Nice work :)

Episode #243: Manage Projects With pyproject.toml & Explore Polars LazyFrames – The Real Python Podcast How can you simplify the management of your Python projects with one file? What are the advantages of using LazyFrames in Polars? Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this week, bringing another…

On this week's show, @digiglean.bsky.social and I talk about kivy, DuckDB, pyproject.toml, Polars LazyFrames and discuss software books, including fiction.

With content from @bwbbwb.bsky.social and others not on the 🦋

Book DNA: The Secret to Finding Your Next Great Read Podcast Episode · Pocket Sized Pep Talks · 03/10/2025 · 29m

I did a fun interview about Shepherd and how we are trying to build something different than Goodreads, check it out here -> podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

How many of the #SPFBO champions have you read?

Best president ever.

@scalzi.com woohoo! I just preordered The Shattering Peace (Old Man's War Book 7) and am looking forward to it this September. Beautiful cover :)

Around 16 years! I also cycle in 30 min in a chair that rocks side to side

Love it, i cycle every 30 min between options

If you are curious, we rewrote the way we connect book recommendation lists by authors/experts/fans to different genres and topics. It should be 100x better now, and it reshuffles every week to help surface different recommendations.

We just shipped a big update to help readers find amazing book lists by authors and experts! Check out the improved accuracy under our book lists section here -> shepherd.com/search/shelf... and shepherd.com/search/shelf... and shepherd.com/search/shelf...

Just to chime in, even with written books they had to buy replacements once they got worn down, so it isn't perfect, but it is kinda equivalent. I wish there was a rule that more went to authors though with ebooks. Should be a 80/20 split or higher with books.

Great data breakdown!!

Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet:

www.404media.co/declassified...

I guess we are kind of caught up to what the US has publicly; we will see in six months what is going on behind closed doors as releases hit. I do think sanctions are still a good thing. And this could have been discovered by anyone anywhere at some point.

Does it worry you that China hit this first with a side project? Or what was the big shock from your thoughts?

Sure, there are major hiring and research areas that cluster together, but those areas are all over the world. China has a lot in this area, I would imagine India is kicking it into high gear as well. Did you think China wasn't really good at this stuff, and this felt surprising?

Sorry, what system? I am unclear there. My point is great stuff being researched all over, thus advances are going to come from all over. It is odd to think advances are going to only happen in one geographical location.

Indie Bookstores Will Soon Be Able to Sell E-Books (Gift Article) Bookshop, a site that lets independent, bricks-and-mortar bookshops sell their books online, is launching an app that will allow the sales of e-books, too.

Good news for folks who want to support local booksellers

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/b...

I can't tell if you are messing with me :)? AI research is happening globally; everyone is learning and sharing with each other. It isn't always going to be in the USA. Advances are being made all over by all kinds of amazing people.

Nah, that is a bad take, IMO. From what I've read, they had a solid approach; if they hadn't done it, some smaller, less cash-rich entity would have been elsewhere. The export controls are meant to cause pain, they are not a perfect solution.

And a big post for authors for January -> meetreaders.shepherd.com/p/the-big-20...

My 10 favorite book lists for January 2025... Creating the indie book platform readers deserve.

Big post for January for readers... ilovebooks.shepherd.com/p/my-10-favo...