Wed February 21 2024
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02:38 AM by gbm in E-Book General | News
He will be missed. bernie [added] Sharon announced her husband's death on facebook after his sudden death from a heart attack. |
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Sat February 10 2024
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06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review If you've been a bit too busy to keep up, here are a few of our favorite stories from the past week. E-Book General - News |
Mon February 05 2024
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10:21 AM by Dr. Drib in E-Book General | News The great novelist and science fiction writer died Feb. 02. Time to reacquaint myself with his work, which I read years ago. I remember reading The Space Machine: A Scientific Romance, and (I think) The Inverted World. Time to visit some delusional alternate realities... |
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Sun January 07 2024
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02:58 AM by Fbone in E-Book General | News According to Duke University, these are a sample of books and plays that entered US public domain January 1st 2024. They also list some films and audio recordings too. D.H Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover Bertolt Brecht, The Threepenny Opera (in the original German, Die Dreigroschenoper) Virginia Woolf, Orlando Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front (in the original German, Im Westen nichts Neues) W.E.B. Du Bois, Dark Princess Claude McKay, Home to Harlem A. A. Milne, illustrations by E. H. Shepard, House at Pooh Corner (introducing the Tigger character) J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan; or the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up (because the play’s script was not “published” for copyright purposes until 1928; note that Barrie’s 1911 novel “Peter and Wendy” has been public domain since 1967) Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness Evelyn Waugh,Decline and Fall Agatha Christie, The Mystery of the Blue Train Wanda Gág, Millions of Cats (the oldest American picture book still in print) Robert Frost, West-Running Brook Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, The Front Page |
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Sun December 24 2023
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03:27 AM by lumping-sugar66 in E-Book Readers | Kobo Reader Hello folks, There's this post over at Reddit by the "Kobo Research Team" asking for participation on a 10 minute survey to collect some data. I think our community may want to contribute to the survey. The post is available here: (Note: I have no ties with Rakuten, I'm just sharing the post)
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Sat December 16 2023
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06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review If you missed our frontpage news at any point this week, here is the best way to catch up: E-Book General - News |
Fri December 15 2023
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02:20 PM by orebmur in E-Book General | News
»Spotify may have made it easier than ever for us to listen to an enormous trove of music, but it extracted so much money in doing so that it impoverished musicians. Now the company is turning its attention to books with a new offering. It will do the same thing to writers, whose audiobooks Spotify has begun streaming in a new and more damaging way.« [ without paywall: https://archive.is/UMNkC ] |
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Wed December 13 2023
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12:14 PM by shalym in E-Book General | News
http://digitaledition.courant.com/in...f-9e87748e5e1e Shari |
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