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El 'boom' de los libros de segunda mano

La sostenibilidad y las dificultades económicas disparan en España el mercado de volúmenes usados, que según un estudio ha crecido un 30% desde 2020

Leer más en El Confidencial

https://www.elconfidencial.com/cultura/2023-08-28/libros-segunda-mano-lectores_3690366/

La historia de la literatura pierde peso en los institutos españoles: "Si se lee 'La Celestina', es para hablar sobre el machismo", señala Mario Gutiérrez, responsable de Educación del sindicato CSIF

El currículo de la Lomloe deja en manos de cada centro la lectura obligatoria de las grandes obras en la ESO

Leer más en El Mundo

https://www.elmundo.es/espana/2023/08/27/64e8ea6be85ece7e018b4590.html

“What an astonishing thing a book is… one glance at it & you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly & silently inside your head, directly to you.

Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.”

- Carl Sagan

Carl Sagan in a red turtleneck standing in front of an image of a galaxy.

I just got these today from @pmpress. I'm super excited to read Revolutionary Affinities—I've been looking forward to it since i first heard about it on .
The other books are obviously really dope though and I'm excited to check them out. Surviving the Future looks very interesting. and getting a journal issue is always fun.

Coffee with Comrades: Episode 188: "The Future is Black & Red" ft. Michael Löwy and David Campbell

Episode webpage: https://coffeewithcomrades.com/episode-188-the-future-is-black-red-ft-michael-lowy-and-david-campbell/

a photo of three books on a bed. the books are Signal №8, Revolutionary Affinities: Towards a Marxist-Anarchist Solidarity, & Surviving the Future: Abolitionist Queer Strategies.

«Todo lenguaje es un alfabeto de símbolos cuyo ejercicio presupone un pasado que los interlocutores comparten».
El Aleph

Jorge Luis Borges was born in 1899. Borges's works have contributed to philosophical literature and the fantasy genre, and have had a major influence on the magic realist movement in 20th century Latin American literature. via @wikipedia

Published quite recently. Rights to Jorge Luis Borges’s work go to his wife’s nephews:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jun/28/rights-to-jorge-luis-borges-work-go-to-his-wifes-nephews

Borges in 1921.

Yesterday I got author copies of my most recent book, a collection of short stories titled Where Rivers Go To Die. They look lovely and the red tones make me want to change my favourite colour from blue to red. You can find yourself a copy of this book on online stores.

These are stories I've written over twenty years, since the earliest I first wrote circa 2003-4

@bookstodon

top view of a stack of books, author copies of Where Rivers Go To Die, stories by Dilman Dila

BEHOLD the ULTIMATE MAJESTY of my hobbity POTATO HOARD!

If you think you know potatoes, YOU KNOW NOTHING OF POTATOES!

This wondrous TREASURE shall ascend through the shimmering GLORY of the DEEP FRYER to become...

SECOND BREAKFAST! (For a month. For the potatoes are plentiful and MIGHTY)

At first this may seem like a boring picture of potatoes of different sizes and colours ranging from light brown to red brown to just brown piled on a fresh cut lawn. But if you think that, you are obviously not educated in potato. What you are looking at is unsurpassed majesty. If you were a hobbit you'd be hobbit dancing right now at the sight of all this breakfast potential. You would know that all this potato goodness was the key to your illustrious toe hair growth and your ability to say "Mister Frodo" like your friend, Frodo was your boss instead of a great big numpty who hasn't worked out that he should have put the damn ring on a rat, then put that rat in a box, then carried the box on the back of a giant freakin' eagle to the mountain. This is obviously because Frodo was potato deprived, so we'll forgive him. But still... eat your potatoes little hobbits. The hoard demands it.

"Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend."

Animal Farm, a beast fable in the form of a satirical allegorical novella, by George Orwell, was first published in England in 1945.

Orwell initially encountered difficulty getting the manuscript published, largely due to fears that the book might upset the alliance between Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union. via @wikipedia

Cover to first edition of Animal Farm by George Orwell

People are getting paid for -written , in an 's name, when in fact the author did not, and knew nothing about this happening.

Then, when the author tries to do something about it to stop this obvious , they are told no.

An author explaining her understandable anguish over this issue

Los verdaderos finales de los cuentos clásicos

Disney adaptó al cine cuentos clásicos como 'Blancanieves', 'La Cenicienta' o 'La sirenita'

Sin embargo, eliminó de las historias originales de los hermanos Grimm, Perrault, Andersen o Basile algunos detalles muy truculentos

Leer más en Lecturalia

https://www.lecturalia.com/blog/2023/08/02/los-verdaderos-finales-de-los-cuentos-clasicos/

[Efemérides]

J.R.R. Tolkien publica 'La comunidad del Anillo'

El 29 de julio de 1954, hace hoy 69 años, el escritor británico J.R.R. Tolkien vio aparecer por primera vez, en Londres, 'La comunidad del Anillo', primero de los tres volúmenes que integrarían su obra magna, 'El señor de los anillos'

Leer más en Zendalibros

https://www.zendalibros.com/j-r-r-tolkien-publica-la-comunidad-del-anillo/

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«Emerson dijo que una biblioteca es un gabinete mágico en el que hay muchos espíritus hechizados. Despiertan cuando los llamamos; mientras no abrimos un libro, ese libro, literalmente, geométricamente, es un volumen, una cosa entre las cosas. Cuando lo abrimos, cuando el libro da con su lector, ocurre el hecho estético».
J. L. BORGES: «La Poesía», en Siete noches. FCE, pp. 101-102.