Paul Biba

@paulkbiba.bsky.social

Editor, Project Gutenberg Facebook page; former Editor-in-Chief of Teleread (the Net's first ebook blog), retired lawyer specializing in international transactions. Over 1 million miles flown on PanAm.

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The Unbelievable Life Of Carl Emil Pettersson, The Sailor Who Became A King After A Shipwreck In 1904 Carl Emil Pettersson married the princess of Tabar Island in 1907.

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08.10.2025 02:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

On Translating Proust and the Art of Not Reading Ahead Le devoir et la tâche d’un écrivain sont ceux d’un traducteur. –Marcel Proust, Le Temps retrouvé * The duty and the task of a writer are those of a translator. –The Past Recaptured, tra…

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Here are the 2025 National Book Awards finalists. Today, the National Book Foundation announced the finalists in all five categories—Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature—for the 2025 National Book Award…

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07.10.2025 14:45 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Project Gutenberg October Newsletter

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07.10.2025 02:42 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Here are the most banned books of 2025. As we round out #BannedBooksWeek, it’s time to observe a grim new tradition. PEN America has announced its annual most-banned-books-of-the-year list. This year’s crop of “objectio…

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06.10.2025 19:42 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Coney Island’s Last Surviving Classic Haunted Ride Brooklyn was once the epicenter of a haunted ride arms race. Today, only Spook-a-Rama remains.

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06.10.2025 19:38 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

The Fascinating Story of How the Electric Music Pioneer Delia Derbyshire Created the Original Doctor Who Theme (1963) Delia Derbyshire, pioneering electronic composer of the mid-twentieth century---featuring two documentaries on her and discussing her role in almost creating an electronic backing track for Paul McCar...

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06.10.2025 16:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A Complete Digitization of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Codex Atlanticus, the Largest Collection of His Drawings & Writings No historical figure better fits the definition of “Renaissance man” than Leonardo da Vinci, but that term has become so overused as to become misleading. We use it to express mild surprise that one p...

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06.10.2025 16:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

10 Weird Times Dead People Were Put on Trial It’s hard to defend yourself when you’re dead.

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In Search of Lost Stein The life and lasting influence of an American expat – Ryan Ruby

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Bessie Head: Botswana and South Africa’s Shared Literary Great Overview of the life and work of Bessie Head (1937 – 1986), South African-born novelist, journalist, and poet.

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06.10.2025 16:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Meet the Artist Creating Humorous, Nihonga-Style Images of Daily Life with Their Rescue Cat "This Sucks" by Poshichi | all images used with permission Poshichi is a Japanese artist creating nihonga-style images of daily life. The digitally-rendered, anachronistic artworks often feature the artist's cat in playful, humorous settings that are, at times, quiet and reflective while other t

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06.10.2025 16:18 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Scientists Are Recreating The Smells Of Old Europe, From Plague Remedies To Hot Tar The project also hopes that museums of the future will employ these scents in order to make their exhibits more immersive.

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04.10.2025 13:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Discover J.R.R. Tolkien’s Personal Book Cover Designs for The Lord of the Rings Trilogy In some rare cases, adaptations and interpretations of a literary work can surpass the source. Despite hundreds of valiant efforts on the part of fans, filmmakers, game/toy designers, and radio produc...

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03.10.2025 21:36 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Pastel landscapes and monochrome portraits shine at the Film Photography Awards The winners of the Analog Sparks 2025 International Film Photography Awards have been announced, with a diverse range of images across eight categories.

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03.10.2025 18:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

YouTube video by TheSnakeCharmer Thunderstruck + It's a Long Way to the Top | AC/DC Bagpipe Cover - Goddesses of Bagpipes

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03.10.2025 17:56 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Greg Newby, CEO of Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and key figure in Project Gutenberg since 1991, has been diagnosed with aggressive pancreatic cancer. A leader for 30+ years, he is supported by family and colleagues with love.

02.10.2025 13:01 — 👍 23 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0

A Medieval Book Lover Explains Why We Love Books - Medievalists.net Discover why a medieval bishop loved books—Richard de Bury’s Philobiblon reveals timeless wisdom and passion for preserving knowledge.

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03.10.2025 13:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Foot-Licking Demons & Other Strange Things in a 1921 Illustrated Manuscript from Iran Few modern writers so remind me of the famous Virginia Woolf quote about fiction as a 'spider's web' more than Argentine fabulist Jorge Luis Borges.

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03.10.2025 13:46 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

An Astonishing Look At Life Inside Alert, Canada, The Northernmost Settlement On Planet Earth Located deep within the Arctic Circle, Alert is completely covered in snow 10 months out of the year, spends November through April well below 0 degrees Fahrenheit, and goes without any sunlight for t...

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03.10.2025 03:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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02.10.2025 23:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Here’s the shortlist for the 2025 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction. Today, the Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction, which recognizes excellence in Nonfiction from authors of any nationality published in English in the UK, announced their 2025 shortlist, six books …

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02.10.2025 12:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Measure of a True Visionary: Jane Goodall on the Indivisibility of Art and Science The aim of science is to illuminate the mysteries of nature and discover the elemental truths pulsating sublime and indifferent beneath the starry skin of the universe. The aim of art is to give us…

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02.10.2025 12:37 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Watch Classical Music Come to Life in Artfully Animated Scores: Stravinsky, Debussy, Bach, Beethoven, Mozart & More Stephen Malinowski has cultivated his own patch of YouTube ground over the years with the Music Animation Machine, slowly scrolling visual representations of classical music.

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Trailer for del Toro’s Frankenstein is pure macabre mythology “My maker told his tale. And I will tell you mine.”…

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01.10.2025 17:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The 20 International Foods Most Commonly Mispronounced by Americans From ‘açai’ to ‘tzatziki’ and beyond.

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01.10.2025 14:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Here are the finalists for the 2025 Cundill History Prize. Today, McGill University announced the finalists for the 2025 Cundill History Prize, which honors history writing that “demonstrates excellence across the prize’s guiding criteria: craft, communica…

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01.10.2025 14:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Orson Welles Looks Back at the 1938 'War of the Worlds' Radio Broadcast Warning of a Martian Invasion Orson Welles looked back at the panic caused by his broadcast of the "War of the Worlds" in a 1955 episode of "Orson Welles' Sketch Book".

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01.10.2025 14:33 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Unesco’s Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects goes live The digital project, which was funded by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, presents looted objects in 3D form

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01.10.2025 14:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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