#reading
The Froostixie reading on a summer night.
It has been a long time since I last published an artwork on my website. This is another digital painting of a creature reading a book - I call this one the Froostixie. Had a bit of fun doing hos paintings :)
As always made with Krita.
Here's the large file: https://katharsisdrill.art/gmedia/the_froostixie_reading_on_a_summer_night_700-jpg/
People who read a lot of fiction tend to have better cognitive skills, study finds
“This research project suggests that people who read a lot of fiction have better cognitive skills than people who read little or no fiction,” Wimmer told PsyPost. “These benefits are small in size across various cognitive skills, but of medium size for verbal and general cognitive abilities, for example, intelligence. Importantly, there is a stronger association between reading fiction and cognitive skills than between reading nonfiction and those skills.”
Kobo’s new repairability push could heat up competition
“The competition” is probably primarily Amazon Kindle (without a colour model, nor any repairability announced yet). Certainly, consumers score with repairability, and on the face of it, you’d think suppliers lose out. But actually, I may be inclined to buy a far more expensive model if I know I can repair it and keep it going for a few years.
Though I should add after many years of owning a Kobo reader and a few Kindles, not one of them has had any issue at all, and all still work fine. But I get that some people do drop their devices, or things can die after the initial warranty period.
Kobos are now available I see for purchase on Amazon (yes really, just not to my country) as well as Walmart.
Kobos are excellent readers actually and the only thing that counts a bit against them, is they don’t have that vast availability of books that Amazon has. But the Calibre app works perfectly well with being able to buy books elsewhere and push them to your Kobo reader.
See androidpolice.com/kobos-repara…
#Blog, #ebooks, #Kobo, #reading, #technology
https://mas.to/@mostaurelius/112269853208615850 mostaurelius@mas.to - A pack horse librarian delivering books in rural Kentucky in 1938. During the Great Depression, the Pack Horse Library Project was a Works Progress Administration (WPA) program in which the librarians, who were often called "book women" or "book ladies," delivered books to remote parts of Appalachia.
source: https://www.facebook.com/GoodwillLibrarian
#books #library #PublicWorks #WPA #reading #bookstodon @bookstodon
SMH Bigly!!
Louisiana HB 777 Would Criminalize Librarians and Libraries Who Join the American Library Association
Pascual Ovalle - Dos personas en un sillón
#art #painting #peinture #Ovalle #lecture #reading #vendredilecture
https://www.espacioo.com/store/artworks/539-pascual-ovalle-dos-personas-en-un-sillon-2022/
A quotation from Herbert, George
Wo be to him that reads but one book.
George Herbert (1593-1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 1146 (1651 ed.)
#quote #quotes #quotation #book #experience #ideas #input #narrow-minded #reading
Sourcing / notes: https://wist.info/herbert-george/11872/
Just finished reading True Virtue - The Journey of an English Buddhist Nun by Sister #AnnabelLaity who is a practitioner in #ThichNhatHanh's #PlumVillage tradition of #Buddhism. It's an auto-biographical account. Interesting to read about the early history of Plum Village and her life in general
