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Free: 356 Issues of Galaxy, the Groundbreaking 1950s Science Fiction Magazine Along with Astounding Science Fiction and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Galaxy Magazine was one of the most important science fiction digests in 1950s America. Ray Bradbury wrote for it...

Free: 356 Issues of Galaxy, the Groundbreaking 1950s Science Fiction Magazine www.openculture.com/2024/11/free...

The Largest Historical Dictionary of English Slang Now Free Online: Covers 500 Years of the “Vulgar Tongue” 'The three volumes of Green's Dictionary of Slang demonstrate the sheer scope of a lifetime of research by Jonathon Green, the leading slang lexicographer of our time. A remarkable collection of this ...

The Largest Historical Dictionary of English Slang Now Free Online: Covers 500 Years of the “Vulgar Tongue” www.openculture.com/2026/02/the-...

Agree completely. First drafts in Markdown (in Obsidian), then final draft in Libre Office.

The Digital Dilemma: Why Writers Are Abandoning Modern Word Processing Software A new era of writing as a mechanical act.

The Digital Dilemma: Why Writers Are Abandoning Modern Word Processing Software www.typebarmagazine.com/the-digital-...

8 European Forests Straight Out of a Fantasy Novel From Ireland's Dark Hedges to the French forest that inspired the Arthurian legends, these forests have inspired countless tales of magic, hauntings, and herois

8 European Forests Straight Out of a Fantasy Novel www.mentalfloss.com/geography/wa...

The Art of Haunting www.vqronline.org/fall-2025/es...

Given that day, it is important to remember that St Valentine's bones are in Dublin, Ireland. www.irishpost.com/travel/resti...

The cautionary precedent is a story about George Bernard Shaw who, browsing in a second-hand shop somewhere, found one of his own works, inscribed for a friend "with esteem, GBS". Naturally, he bought it and returned it to the same friend, "with renewed esteem"

Because of this story I can never give signed books to charity and if I buy one which turns out to have an inscription I feel bad for the signatory

Brought to book: Alison Healy on some unwise rejections of authors’ manuscripts by publishers An American publisher dismissed them as unfunny, senseless and dull

Brought to book: Alison Healy on some unwise rejections of authors’ manuscripts by publishers #booksky #authorsky www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...

What’s Happening to Reading? For many people, A.I. may be bringing the age of traditional text to an end.

What’s Happening to Reading? For many people, A.I. may be bringing the age of traditional text to an end. www.newyorker.com/culture/open...

The 1000 Libraries award trophy displayed on a wooden table inside Duke Humfrey’s Library, with historic bookcases and the decorated ceiling softly lit in the background.

Interior view of Duke Humfrey’s Library, showing dark wooden bookcases filled with historic volumes, long reading tables, and an ornate painted ceiling with carved wooden arches.

The 1000 Libraries award trophy positioned centrally in Duke Humfrey’s Library, aligned with the long aisle of bookcases and the richly painted, arched ceiling behind it.

A symmetrical view down the central aisle of Duke Humfrey’s Library, with rows of wooden bookcases, reading desks, and a detailed painted ceiling leading towards a large arched window.

Duke Humfrey’s Library was voted the 4th most beautiful library in the world! 🌍

We are delighted to have received the trophy, recognising this honour from more than 200,000 book lovers worldwide.

Read more: https://www.1000libraries.com/post/2025-top-10-most-beautiful-libraries-in-the-world

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Goth AF, as they say.

Inside the Long History of Technologically Assisted Writing ChatGPT-3—the Generative Pre-Trained Transformer—has recently turned all of us who write into nascent John Henrys, ready to strike the hammer at either the rail or the computer. Stephen Marche in T…

Inside the Long History of Technologically Assisted Writing lithub.com/inside-the-l...

Scientists mimicking the Big Bang accidentally turn lead into gold The physicists made an unexpected breakthrough

Nicholas Flamel was right all along! Scientists mimicking the Big Bang accidentally turn lead into gold www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

The Work Behind the Writing: On Writers and Their Day Jobs For nineteen years, until his retirement in 1885, Herman Melville would awake, slick back his dark hair and unsnarl the snags from his beard, don a uniform of dark navy pilot cloth and affix to his…

The Work Behind the Writing: On Writers and Their Day Jobs lithub.com/the-work-beh...

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene had an article as recently as 2022 on that very subject!

Sometimes research will lead you down an odd road. Before Ozempic there was "sanitized tape worms, easy to swallow." Ad from 1898.

A Cat Left Paw Prints on the Pages of This Medieval Manuscript When the Ink Was Drying 500 Years Ago An exhibition called "Paws on Parchment" tracks how cats were depicted in the Middle Ages through texts and artworks from around the world—including one example of a 15th-century "keyboard cat"

A Cat Left Paw Prints on the Pages of This Medieval Manuscript When the Ink Was Drying 500 Years Ago www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a...

Had an intriguing editorial discussion recently: how did people in the past talk about 'minutes' when they didn't have watches or standardised times? How does that affect your thinking?

Come down an Elizabethan/Jacobean rabbit hole with me.

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Humble Book Bundle: Fierce Women of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror by Open Road Media Our latest ebook bundle has over 60 of the best sci-fi, fantasy, and horror books written by women! Every purchase supports Active Minds charity!

A frankly astounding Humble Bundle of about 70 books by women SFF writers, including the Iskryne series by @pennyvixen.bsky.social and me and my first two Karen Memory novels, for $25 for the whole bundle, benefitting youth mental health.

www.humblebundle.com/books/fierce...

Pupa (when they were working on their first album, Satisfy Gratify Me)

The Complete Story of the Epic of Gilgamesh (Overview & Analysis) | TheCollector The Epic of Gilgamesh, recounting the adventures of the semi-divine Sumerian king, may be the world’s oldest literary work. What does the narrative say?

The Complete Story of the Epic of Gilgamesh (Overview & Analysis) www.thecollector.com/epic-gilgame...

Many bookshops, but all of them selling 'authorized' editions of the Necronomicon!

What were books like in ancient Greece and Rome? The oldest known writing dates to around 5000 BCE. It origins are mysterious.

What were books like in ancient Greece and Rome? If you were to visit a bookshop in the ancient world, what would it be like? theconversation.com/what-were-bo...

Carl Jung on the Power of Tarot Cards: They Provide Doorways to the Unconscious & Perhaps a Way to Predict the Future It is generally accepted that the standard deck of playing cards we use for everything from three-card monte to high-stakes Vegas poker evolved from the Tarot. “Like our modern cards,” writes Sallie N...

Carl Jung on the Power of Tarot Cards www.openculture.com/2023/10/carl...

The Antilibrary: The Hidden Value of Unread Books - The antidote to overconfidence is our relationship with knowledge. The antilibrary is the solution according to Nassim Taleb.

The Antilibrary: The Hidden Value of Unread Books: fs.blog/the-antilibr...

New Year's Day!

Ryan Coogler on Sinners’ hit Celtic vampire dance: ‘Rocky Road to Dublin is an affirmation of humanity’ The director of one of 2025’s most talked-about films on the links between Irish and black communities

Ryan Coogler on Sinners’ hit Celtic vampire dance: ‘Rocky Road to Dublin is an affirmation of humanity’ www.irishtimes.com/culture/film...

Genre fiction and female authors top U.S. libraries' most-borrowed lists in 2025 All of the top 10 books borrowed through the public library app Libby were written by women. And Kristin Hannah's The Women was the top checkout in many library systems around the country.

Genre fiction and female authors top U.S. libraries' most-borrowed lists in 2025 www.npr.org/2025/12/29/n...