Book!BlaBla
@bookblabla@mastodon.social  路  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

"The Remains of the Day" by: Kazuo Ishiguro

It is the summer of 1956, when Stevens, a man who has dedicated himself to his career as a perfect butler in the one-time great house of Darlington Hall, sets off on a holiday that will take him deep into the English countryside and, unexpectedly, into his own past, especially his friendship with the housekeeper, Miss Kenton.

https://bookblabla.com/book/the-remains-of-the-day-a-novel

#author #reading #library #books #fiction
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Tommi 馃く
@tommi@pan.rent  路  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

I had the honour to be invited by @ZFAVClub to participate in an online live workshop exploring the mighty and wonderful CLI tool of the @internetarchive, in collaboration with @dweb 馃挄

If you are interested in data preservation and digital commons, please do watch it, as we did our best to shed some light on the most powerful yet little known features of this software.

The #InternetArchive is an invaluable resource for unlimited, public, open, and free storage for the whole Universe. It seems too good to be true, but it is!

We also touched upon the value of #FreeSoftware, #Linux, #decentralization, and #publicDomain.

https://archive.org/details/youtube-8Pr05zlXdlo

#archive#commonGood #librarian #library #hacker #hacking #hackerLibrarian#DWeb#CLI #terminal #tutorial#Python #workshop

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Project Gutenberg
@gutenberg_org@mastodon.social  路  activity timestamp 3 months ago

A new documentary checks out the many ways libraries are a 'Free For All'

by David Bianculli

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/29/nx-s1-5380803/free-for-all-library-documentary-pbs

#library #bannedbook #librarians

Artistic Rendering of the Library of Alexandria, based on some archaeological evidence. The building is depicted with classical Greco-Egyptian design elements鈥攖all columns, marble facades, and ornate friezes. The scene shows the interior, with long, vaulted halls lined with wooden shelves, niches filled with scrolls, and skylights that bathe the room in warm light. Scholars, scribes, and philosophers in flowing robes move through the space鈥攅ngaged in reading, debating, or writing鈥攅voking a vibrant intellectual culture. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Alexandria#/media/File:Ancientlibraryalex.jpg
Artistic Rendering of the Library of Alexandria, based on some archaeological evidence. The building is depicted with classical Greco-Egyptian design elements鈥攖all columns, marble facades, and ornate friezes. The scene shows the interior, with long, vaulted halls lined with wooden shelves, niches filled with scrolls, and skylights that bathe the room in warm light. Scholars, scribes, and philosophers in flowing robes move through the space鈥攅ngaged in reading, debating, or writing鈥攅voking a vibrant intellectual culture. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Alexandria#/media/File:Ancientlibraryalex.jpg
Artistic Rendering of the Library of Alexandria, based on some archaeological evidence. The building is depicted with classical Greco-Egyptian design elements鈥攖all columns, marble facades, and ornate friezes. The scene shows the interior, with long, vaulted halls lined with wooden shelves, niches filled with scrolls, and skylights that bathe the room in warm light. Scholars, scribes, and philosophers in flowing robes move through the space鈥攅ngaged in reading, debating, or writing鈥攅voking a vibrant intellectual culture. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Alexandria#/media/File:Ancientlibraryalex.jpg