#libraries and books

[daily--cats]

[maplewrites]

Happy WBW! I know it's summer, but we're going back to school! What does the education system look like in your world? Is it standardized or trade based? Required or for certain people only?

Public school is available, however, time is seen as a privilege to have an excess of. Going to school for a whole day is a huge investment of time. Most kids are home schooled or only go for half days because of this.

In cities where there are libraries, librarians will travel with a bag of books to different central areas of the city and read allowed for hours. Children who are too young for school and parents might stay for the whole reading, but school age children and workers will stop by for fifteen minutes to two hours for entertainment.

Stories are seen as a community event because of this, so even in towns with no libraries, those who know how to read will often spend evenings reading what few books they have aloud.

[darkacadwmia]

[septemberkisses]

the fact that i'm no longer the same age as the protagonists of novels and films i once connected to is so heartbreaking. there was a time when I looked forward to turning their age. i did. and i also outgrew them. i continue to age, but they don't; never will. the immortality of fiction is beautiful, but cruel.

[ur-daily-inspiration]

[daily-spooky]

[homosexualfairy]

[fromdarzaitoleeza]

{Words by Anaïs Nin, from The Diary Of Anais Nin, Vol. 4 (1944-1947) / Cynthia Cruz from diagnosis,The glimmering room}

[catchymemes]

[rthko]

Gerard P Donelan

[darkacadwmia]

[paracosmoon]

[ur-daily-inspiration]

[nando161mando]

oops! it seems i tripped and dropped several million free books, papers, and other resources

https://annas-archive.org

https://sci-hub.se

https://z-lib.is

https://libgen.is

https://libgen.rs

https://www.pdfdrive.com

https://library.memoryoftheworld.org

https://monoskop.org/Monoskop

https://libcom.org

https://libretexts.org

http://classics.mit.edu

https://librivox.org

https://standardebooks.org

https://www.gutenberg.org

https://core.ac.uk

[academia-core]

Greenhouse reading nooks 🌱

[academia-lucifer]

Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.

— William Faulkner.