#bookishness

[literarylumin]

Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

[but-my-weekend-is-booked]

I decided to rebind the ACOTAR series as I read them. I’m reading ACOWAR atm, and almost done with the rebind for ACOMAF. In the meantime, I finished the rebind for book one!!!

I’ve never done a printed cover before, so it was definitely a learning curve, but I really enjoyed the process.

Also, why did no one tell me these books were actually political and contained things like deep philosophical discussions of trauma??? The “there are many different kinds of darkness” scene was absolutely brilliant!

[lou-wilham]

Just a quick note from your friendly neighborhood bookworm/indie author

if you use kindle for the majority of your library, they will be shutting down the function that allows you to download your files and transfer them via USB on the 26th of February. Which doesn't sound like a huge deal, but this also means that if a book is taken off Amazon for any reason—like it being banned—they can scrape it off your kindle as well. So maybe backup your library?

Edit: as an indie author I feel like I should make a small note that this is not an excuse to say “fuck Amazon I’ll just pirate my books”. Please don’t do that. No one’s reaction so far has been that but I’m begging you not to react that way. That doesn’t hurt Amazon it hurts authors.

Some alternatives are

- check and see if the author sells their books on other marketplaces. Hint: any not enlisted on Ku are probably wide

- check your library. If they’re not at your library request them.

- if all else fails, reach out to the author. I have 100% hunted down a way for my book to be available to a reader that couldn’t access it for whatever reason. And I’d do it again.

Just for the love of 🧀 don’t pirate them.

[writtenroses1813]

I’m so sorry but in the nicest way possible do yall actually read books or just read words??? Cause I’ve been seeing that trend of people not understanding how “snarled” and “eyes darkened” and “eyes softened” etc. was used in a book and like…

Genuinely, do yall just not have imagination?? Or not understand figurative language??? Also eyes do literally darken and soften have you not lived a life??? How do you read with no imagination? Is this how you get through so many books in one month - you simply don’t take the time the understand the words as they are read?

[the-forest-library]

“You should be at the club.” No, I should be at the scholastic book fair.

[psalmieee]

Writers when it's time to write the story no one forced them to come up with in the first place 🙄

[xiranjayzhao]

Some truths about the publishing industry because I certainly got blindsided when going in. Now I'm so broken by this industry I struggle to encourage aspiring writers lmao

[catbrarian]

cats and libraries ۫ ꣑ৎ

[juliaxyn]

Even when you're tired, remember why you started.

[susiephone]

I've created a list of 100 commonly-assigned texts (at least in the USA), based both on my own experience and what I've heard from friends. I included a mixture of stuff assigned in middle school, high school, and college. Spin the wheel here and answer:

Bonus: tell us what you thought in the tags!

Use your discretion for texts you started but didn't finish for whether you count it as "read" or not.

[lone-nyctophile]

Poetry is what helps me remember that even in my fragments, I am whole.

- Jennifer Huang

[lectiophileee]

[but-my-weekend-is-booked]

Finished my bind for A Court of Mist and Fury. I admit I don’t like the rebind for this one as much as book one. The edges are not as good as I had hoped 😔

[readsunshine]

Somedays I want to pull my heart out of my chest just so I can stop feeling this way.

[bookaddict24-7]

"I like that library books have secret lives. All those hands that have held them. All those eyes that have read them."

―Same Sun Here by Neela Vaswani