#Tag · bonfire.cafe

Not so happy. Financially, 2025 was probably the worst year I had since I started translating for a living. I lost most of my long time clients - retirement, sickness etc. - and new ones are hard to find.
So I am on self promotion now - anyone here who wants his English book translated into German? No option for you? Talk to me. Most of my authors are glad for the additional income.
References on my blog - see profile.
#translations #books #writing #author

Susanne

@SusanneDoering@zirk.us · 2 weeks ago

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Humble Bundle Abandons History of DRM Free Media

For over a decade, Humble Bundle has offered DRM-free media for a great price, while also supporting charity. Even years later, I can't get their "jingle" out of my head:

Pay what you want, DRM-free,Mac/Windows/Linux, and helps charity

Sadly, this is no longer true.

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⁂ Article

Humble Bundle Abandons History of DRM Free Media

For over a decade, Humble Bundle has offered DRM-free media for a great price, while also supporting charity. Even years later, I can't get their "jingle" out of my head:

Pay what you want, DRM-free,Mac/Windows/Linux, and helps charity

Sadly, this is no longer true.

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The Vulgar Tongue

@TheVulgarTongue@zirk.us · last month

BREEZE. To raise a breeze; to kick up a dust or breed a disturbance.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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#books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons

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BREEZE. To raise a breeze; to kick up a dust or breed a disturbance.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785) — Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot): BREEZE. To raise a breeze; to kick up a dust or breed a disturbance. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

Stephen Shankland

@stshank@mstdn.social · 4 weeks ago

A good list of science books if anybody is feeling intellectually malnourished.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03914-8
#science #books

The Vulgar Tongue

@TheVulgarTongue@zirk.us · last month

BREEZE. To raise a breeze; to kick up a dust or breed a disturbance.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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#books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons

Project GutenDay

@ProjectGutenDay@zirk.us · last month

November 24
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`By that date the stench from the box was so overpowering that the cooly in alarm removed them to a dry ditch in the vicinity, where they were discovered by the police on November 24th.`
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“The Bombay City Police: A Historical Sketch, 1672-1916” by S. M. Edwardes
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/62798

#OnThisDay #history #books #today #random

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David on Formosa

@davidonformosa@mstdn.social · last month

📚 Jenna Lynn Cody recommends ten books about Taiwan. There is a good mix of fiction and non-fiction here

https://open.substack.com/pub/laorencha/p/ten-more-great-books-about-taiwan?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2wlot

#Taiwan #books #history #台灣

David on Formosa

@davidonformosa@mstdn.social · last month

📚 Jenna Lynn Cody recommends ten books about Taiwan. There is a good mix of fiction and non-fiction here

https://open.substack.com/pub/laorencha/p/ten-more-great-books-about-taiwan?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2wlot

#Taiwan #books #history #台灣

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Rivikah

@Rivikah@mstdn.social · last month

Anyone want to give a recommendation? I'd like to read some science fiction or fantasy in translation, ie originally written in another language and professionally translated to English. Novel or novella length

I've found several recommendations of older books, but I'm looking for books written in the last 20 years and translated in the last 10. Newer is preferable. If there's something great that's come out this year I want to hear about it.

#bookstodon #books