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girlofthesea@diasporasocial.net
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FILSON YOUNG ~ AUTHOR OF 'TITANIC'. 1912

The story of the sinking of the Titanic based on first hand accounts collected in the days and weeks following the disaster. The story of the Titanic is now well known. But in the months following the disaster wild speculation was rife. On Thursday 22 May 1912, a mere 37 days after the sinking, respected London publisher Grant Richards, delivered Filson Young's book to booksellers around the capital. It was the first attempt to plot the demise of the unsinkable ship from a well-respected writer who had already argued in the light of the Oceana sinking, for proper use of the wireless on board ships. Both Filson and Grant knew victims of the sinking and both worked hard to gather first-hand testimony to use in the book. Much of his telling of the story still stands today and his speculations about the feeling of daily life aboard the doomed ship are used in books and films on the subject.

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girlofthesea@diasporasocial.net
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First - I read this book when I was a teenager. It was in my high school library in New Jersey. Until that time I had no idea about this subject, but I loved history. I searched for books that had original photographs about the Titanic, and found them.
As an adult I also found the original 1958 Black and White film - 'A Night To Remember'. After reading the book, and seeing the film that was made from the book - when I saw the Hollywood romantic epic 'Titanic', I wasn't impressed. But at least some authentic history was introduced to present generations.
- Alexander Bell Filson Young (1876–1938) was a journalist, who published the first book about the sinking of the RMS Titanic, called Titanic, in 1912 only 37 days after the sinking. He was also an essayist, war correspondent in the Boer War and World War I, a programmes advisor to the BBC, and the author of two novels. Beside his literary work, he was an organist and composer, and a pioneer of motoring and aviation.
Alexander Bell Filson Young was born in Ireland in 1876, at Ballyeaston, County Antrim. He was the son of the Revd. William Young and Sarah Young (née Filson).
- In 1911 Young visited Belfast to see the RMS Titanic under construction; and when it sank in 1912 his book about the disaster appeared little over a month afterwards. -wikipedia

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danie10@squeet.me
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The Verge’s greatest nonfiction tech books of all time: They are all about the intersection with humanity, not about technology itself

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All the books are nonfiction, yet none are actually technical. They are about how computers have affected humans and their culture in various ways, whether it was through games, algorithms, social networks, corporate CEOs, and more.

Interestingly, some also look at how computers have changed the way humans interact with other humans through spam, their intellectual property, how celebrity creators come into being and are destroyed overnight, etc.

Very sad to say that of the 40 books listed, I’ve only read one, and that was The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier by Bruce Sterling. But I can say this book had a profound impact on me. So I’ll certainly try to read a few more from this list.

See https://www.theverge.com/c/23771068/best-tech-books-nonfiction-recommendations
#Blog, #reading, #technology

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girlofthesea@diasporasocial.net
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A Utah school district has removed the Bible from some schools' shelves
June 2, 2023
https://www.npr.org/2023/06/02/1179906120/utah-bible-book-challenge
What is the most read book in the world?
The Bible. Easily the most read book in the world is the Bible. It is estimated to have sold over 40 million copies in the last 60 years.

A Utah school district has removed the Bible from some schools' shelves

After a parent's complaint, a school district in Utah banned the Bible from middle and elementary schools for containing "vulgarity or violence" inappropriate for the age group.

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girlofthesea@diasporasocial.net
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#books #reading #libraries
SANCTUARY LIBRARIES
Book Sanctuary Cities Like Chicago Are A Response To Book Bans, Censorship.

  • As book bans pass across the country, some cities and libraries are declaring themselves “book sanctuaries.”**
    imagine facing possible felony charges for lending students library books. That unimaginable scenario is currently playing out in Florida, “where teachers are being told” to remove any “vetted” books from classroom libraries or risk prosecution.

  • Florida is far from the only state where state officials seem eager to challenge and ban books. In North Dakota, lawmakers are considering a bill to ban books with “sexually explicit” content — which includes sexual or gender identity — from public libraries, as well as imprison librarians who don’t comply. Meanwhile, lawmakers in Indiana have reintroduced a similar bill that would criminalize librarians for giving minors what some may view as obscene material.
    https://www.teenvogue.com/story/book-sanctuaries-chicago-toronto-libraries

Book Sanctuaries Are an Answer to Censorship

“Books can offer a lifeline for young people.”

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girlofthesea@diasporasocial.net
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SUNDAY
June 23, 2023
Rare image of a medieval woman scribe illustrated by a medieval woman artist: this is Sister Elsbeth Stagel, d.1360, author of the Sister-Book of Töss, as painted by Sister Barbara Gewichtmacher of St Katharina, NĂŒrnberg in c.1452 (NĂŒrnberg, Stadtbibliothek, Cent v. 10a)

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nadloriot@diaspora.psyco.fr
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AnaĂŻs Massini - Aux oiseaux

Un magnifique album pour les amoureux des oiseaux... đŸ©”đŸ’šđŸ’™

PrÚs de 40 oiseaux superbement peints par Anaïs Massini sont ici accompagnés de textes qui leur sont adressés, comme autant de cartes postales.

https://www.placedeslibraires.fr/livre/9782246830146-aux-oiseaux-anais-massini/

#art #peinture #painting #illustration #massini #vendredilecture #lecture #reading #poésie #poetry #oiseau #bird

Aux oiseaux - AnaĂŻs Massini - Grasset Jeunesse - Grand format - Place des Libraires

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danie10@squeet.me
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Why You Should Use Bionic Reading in Chrome (or Any Browser): An extension to highlight the most important parts of words

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Bionic Reading is a new way of reading text that uses a patented algorithm to highlight the most important parts of words, making it easier and faster to read. The method was developed by a German software developer named Renato Cukar, who was inspired by the way the human eye reads text.

Bionic Reading works by highlighting the most important parts of words, which helps the eye to follow the text more smoothly and efficiently. This makes it easier to read longer passages of text, and can also help to improve comprehension.

Bionic Reading is available as a free Chrome extension, as well as a mobile app for iOS and Android. It can also be used on websites and in PDFs.

See https://www.howtogeek.com/882688/why-you-should-use-bionic-reading-in-chrome-or-any-browser/
#Blog, #bionicreading, #reading, #technology

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girlofthesea@diasporasocial.net
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#persecution #books #reading #history

Nazi Germany

Compiled by a Harvard sociologist but not published until 2012, essays in the collection ‘Night of Broken Glass’ take readers beyond ravaged storefronts and burning synagogues.

Photograph: After the Kristallnacht pogrom in Linz, Austria, Jewish women are made to wear signs saying, 'I am not part of the national community,' while being humiliated on stage in public (public domain)

(Chilling! What kind of posters would present day Republicans force people to wear?)

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girlofthesea@diasporasocial.net
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#books #reading #art #ghetto #ww11
June 4, 2023. SUNDAY

I have this book. Publisher: Schocken; First Edition (May 5, 1978)

THE ARTISTS OF TEREZIN
Fine / Near Fine, cream cloth over boards w illustrated cover stamped barbed wire and brown font on spine, 191 pps, 106 pps of illustrations, both color and black and white and reproduced poetry and writings. Unmarked, clean and tight, without writing or marks. Cover likewise. Dust jacket is near fine, not price clipped, showing a bit of shelf wear and age toning, now under protective mylar wrap. "Describes Terezin, or Theresienstadt, a Nazi concentration camp in Czechoslovakia, where a distinctive and remarkable culture flourished in spite and perhaps to spite it all. Artists such as Otto Ungar, Bedrich Fritta, Leo Haas, Karel Fleischmann, doctors and rabbis, children as well as adults, turned to art, poetry and philosophy not merely to record their plight but to reassert their humanity and to fight back with their only weapon - the undying, creative human spirit."

Gerald Green. The Artists of Terezin. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. An Original Copy is owned by the museum.

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danie10@squeet.me
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Before E-Readers, a 1930s Writer, Bob Brown, Reinvented the Book With “Readies”

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I suppose he was just way ahead of his time with his mechanical display, and of course then really cheap paperbacks killed off his idea. It’s a bit like internal combustion engines killed off early electric vehicles. Sometimes time is needed to mature an idea and have the materials ready


The early 20th century saw a revolution in entertainment. Connoisseurs of the arts no longer had to go to the playhouse to see dramas or the concert hall to hear music. Cinemas projected movie stars onto massive screens, and phonographs piped recordings of popular songs into people’s homes. Print books, however, were harder to reinvent. That didn’t stop one enterprising artist from envisioning the first e-book nearly 70 years before its time.

American writer Bob Brown was inspired to bring the written word into the electronic age after seeing a film in 1930. The visual medium was progressing fast, with “talkies” quickly supplanting silent pictures. He felt his medium of choice was falling behind in comparison. “We have the talkies, but as yet no Readies,” Brown wrote. “Writing has been bottled up in books since the start[
] It is time to pull out the stopper.”

His proposal continued with a description of what his so-called “Readies” would look like. Brown’s concept for the machine had many of the same advantages as modern e-readers. It would “allow readers to adjust the type size and avoid paper cuts” as well as “read hundred-thousand-word novels in 10 minutes” if so desired. Instead of e-ink, this would be accomplished by ribbons of tiny text that readers would scroll manually behind a sheet of magnifying glass. An ingenious combination of microfilm and ticker-tape machines, the device would be more cumbersome than a Kindle but still convenient compared to a personal library.

See https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/readies-1930s-e-book-invention
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