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me as a writer: Oh no I can’t write that, somebody else already has

me as a reader: hell yes give me all the fics about this one scenario. The more the merrier

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how are you people alive.

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Sometimes people fearing the end of physical media for movies rope in books too & physical books are fine. They're not going anywhere bc they're still how publishers make the majority of their money

If you look into the data, after an initial boom, the percentage of people reading print versus ebooks has remained pretty consistent, without major swings. It's still primarily paper books, as this graph from 2024 shows. Majorities still prefer physical books across all age brackets as well,

If you look at sales charts, at the start of the 2010s physical book sales took a big hit, but then ebook sales declined and now physical book sales are at or exceed where they were before they came along.

Now, the elephant in the room is that this data concerns ebook versions of books with physical copies, i.e. traditionally published ones. Because no one predicted that the primary market for ebooks would not be digital editions of every book, but an entirely separate ecosystem of independent and self-published books that would not exist were it not for ebooks.

But why ebook sales of traditionally published books declined so much after their initial boom is a question in need of an explanation. Let's check out the Amazon page for their current top selling book, the Handmaid's Tale

Oh, that's right! Ebooks COST MORE THAN PHYSICAL BOOKS now. But if you pay a $11.99 monthly subscription, you could read it for free! Anyway yeah this isn't a DVD/Blu-Ray situation physical books are not going anywhere anytime soon

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i’m online and ready to look at a picture!

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Do yall ever just

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Sorry for the delay but here is my New Year art 🙏.

I wish you all the best for this year ☺️

(In Japan, there is a snake because this year is the year of the snake.)

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The most popular browsers in different countries in 2012 and 2022.

by @theworldmaps_

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what the fuck is this monstrosity

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searching

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Skip Google for Research

As Google has worked to overtake the internet, its search algorithm has not just gotten worse.  It has been designed to prioritize advertisers and popular pages often times excluding pages and content that better matches your search terms 

As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable.  As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.

Below is a concise list of useful research sites compiled by Edward Clark over on Facebook. I was familiar with some, but not all of these.

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Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them. Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information. Keep a list of sites you never heard of.

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.

www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free

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do not raise a word against those crusty little white dogs in my presence. 1. they are some of the only breeds that were bred to live in a dumpy apartment not like a golden retriever who longs to swim and run and can’t even chill on your dumb couch cuz of the hair 2. You’ll be singing a different tune when the crusty little dog is a tiny little puppy and is the shade of a beautiful jasmine bloom… and you make fun of the old ladies for babying them when they’re crusty and old but someone will be taking care of YOU when you’re old and crusty and you will wish they love you as much as those old ladies love their crusty dogs….

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pls rb if you think cuddling doesn't have to be s3xual

im tryna prove a point to my bf's mother help me out

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Never seen them in the same room I’m just sayin

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Hadn’t seen anyone do this yet