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petition to ban all whisper voice from audiobook narration for all time 💀

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these two are so hopelessly in love with each other while also being so desperately afraid of each other and it's actually so adorable 🙈

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Do you know which book this is from?

Please reblog the polls, but KEEP IT SPOILER-FREE to make people read the excerpt with an open mind 💖📚 Title and author will be revealed after the poll's conclusion.

Thank you @halfthealphabet for the submission! 😄

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E and Henery are continuing to be the most autistic people I've ever read

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I'm so glad A Letter from the Lonesome Shore is starting with a recap of the first book because I have forgotten all the twists from that one 😅

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Spin this wheel first and then this wheel second to generate the title of a YA fantasy novel!

(If the second wheel lands on an option ending with a plus sign, spin it again)

Share what you got!

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i think one of my favourite things as a reader is seeing authors come out as trans. i love seeing their updated author bios and the new versions of their names. but i especially love the photos. you can feel the gender euphoria rolling off them <3 it's a beautiful little thing that I'm taking a lot of solace in

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Given how common it is for book posts that say "just give me the book blurb! stop with all the other things!" to get tens of thousands of notes, I feel the need to say, as a tiny micro-publisher: if only sharing the book blurb sold books, trust me, we wouldn't be wasting our time with all the other shenanigans.

But just sharing the blurb doesn't work. Most people scroll right by.

And so we try every single method we can think of, including sharing the blurb among them, to try to get whatever eyes we can on the book.

Of course the description of the story is the best way to sell the book and get people interested, but it only works if y'all actually read it. And getting most people to the point where they'll read anything that isn't already immediately and actively part of their existing interests is fucking hard, so we use splashy graphics and short hand to try to hook people, and then hope that when they read the blurb, that hook will go from "oh, that's worth a glance" to "oh, that's worth a buy."

Also: just because the exact post you saw promoting a book didn't include the blurb doesn't mean other posts about the book don't!

Sorry. I just have seen so much of that recently (and not just because of that poll about "what convinces you to buy," I actually found that whole poll extremely interesting and informative) that I'm kinda losing patience with it.

Just posting the blurb doesn't work.

Signed, someone who sells books for a living, or at least tries to.

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Finished Copy of THE ENCHANTED GREENHOUSE

Look what arrived!!! A finished copy of THE ENCHANTED GREENHOUSE!!! faints

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bringing it up again for the millionth time but I'm still obsessed with the way that hannibal lecter is canonically aware of the narrative not because its ever explicitly stated but because the author who created him genuinely believes this to be true and stopped writing the book series because he's afraid of him

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literary kinsey scale time

i’m just curious what mix of fiction and nonfiction the average tumblrina is consuming

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'The Golden Compass' by Rovina Cai.

Cover art for the US paperback edition of the novel, 'The Golden Compass', book 1 in the 'His Dark Materials' trilogy written by Philip Pullman, published by Penguin Random House.

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Reading with a view!

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I watched this interesting documentary this morning, and found exactly one post on it on Tumblr. So I'm sharing this link to the film, which is free to watch on YouTube (or can be found via streaming services like Kanopy.) It's about literacy as a civil rights issue in the US, and while I would have liked to see more about struggling readers beyond early grades, I found the stories of the featured families really interesting. I was also super-impressed by the activist at the heart of the film, Kareem Weaver. Executive-produced by Tumblr's favorite reader, LeVar Burton.

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... dragons are everywhere ...

🎨 Astrid Sheckels

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Books on Libby have started disappearing.

My friend pointed it out first, and then I started noticing too. Why would books that multiple libraries definitely, 100% had digital access to a couple of months/weeks/days ago disappear?

Amazon is getting exclusive rights to them.

Ebooks that the public library once had digital copies of are now only available through Amazon. Audible boasts on their covers about Audible-exclusive audiobooks that did not used to be Audible-exclusive. Entire series and collections are disappearing overnight.

Keep your eyes on the privatization of media and your libraries.

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Say what you want about people who read 100+ books a year "not absorbing anything they read" or whatever other assumptions you want to make to cover up your insecurities about your own reading habits. I think that shit is admirable. And I really don't care if they finish the book, close it, and immediately forget everything they just read. Some of us have garbage memory. They still read, and that's cool.