Free Vintage Cocktail Books Collection (and a shout-out to OpenCulture)
Happy recommendation this morning via openculture.com — a collection of vintage cocktail books.
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Getting Exported Annotations (Highlights, Underlines, Notes, etc) from PDF Expert in the right order
A short process to sort notes by page number.
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Audiobooks (esp. for commute)
Never got into audiobooks, but a recent Quillette article made a few interesting points about them. They might be something if you ever are in the unfortunate position of having to commute a lot by car.
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Unread Books as Gifts to Authors
I stopped thinking about unread books as anything negative. I almost all cases, I like the author or story idea enough to buy them. So why not consider it a gift/donation/feedback to the author?
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Recommendation: “Man’s Search For Meaning” by Viktor E. Frankl
Not easy to read, not that 'practical', but a recommended book on the role of meaning in life.
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Recommendation: “Punderworld” by sigeel (Linda Sejic)
Another recommendation, this time a slightly different (human) take on Persephone and Hades.
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Recommendation: “Fangs” by Sarah Andersen
It won't take but a few minutes to read it, but ... yeah, that's a ... worthwhile ... book.
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My fare, Lady? Ah, Pratchett
If you haven't read the books by Terry Pratchett, they are well worth the time.
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German Speech Disorder
The German language is awful enough, it does not need an artificial speech disorder.
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«To choose a good book, look in an inquisitor’s prohibited list.»
That's actually one advantage of cancel culture and retraction of papers due to public pressure — you find interesting material to read.
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