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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.

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Detailed instructions are on the home page for download and setup (scroll hallway down the home page).

FYI this project is on the level; the parent company, Lyrasis, is a place I once worked for when it was known as PALINET, a Philadelphia-based library association.

https://thepalaceproject.org/banned-book-club/

From: @heidilifeldman
https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/110749876353356737

'The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) has launched The Banned Book Club... The Banned Book Club makes e-book versions of banned books available to readers in locations across the United States where titles have been banned. The e-books will be available to readers for free via the Palace e-reader app.'

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https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/digital-public-library-of-america-launches-the-banned-book-club-to-ensure-access-to-banned-books-301881735.html

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Muere el escritor Milan Kundera a los 94 años

Su editor ha confirmado el fallecimiento del escritor conocido por novelas como 'La insoportable levedad del ser', 'La inmortalidad' o 'El Libro de los amores ridículos'

Leer más en El Independiente

https://www.elindependiente.com/tendencias/cultura/2023/07/12/muere-el-escritor-milan-kundera/

"I am the daughter of Earth and Water,
And the nursling of the Sky;
I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores;
I change, but I cannot die."

Percy Bysshe Shelley died in 1822. Shelley's life was marked by family crises, ill health, and a backlash against his atheism, political views and defiance of social conventions. He died in a boating accident in 1822 at the age of 29. via @wikipedia

Books by Percy Bysshe Shelley at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1529

Portrait of Shelley, by Alfred Clint (1829). via @wikisource
Manuscript page of "To a Skylark" by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822). Houghton Library, Harvard University. via @wikipedia

"This is the grass that grows wherever the land is and the water is, This the common air that bathes the globe."

The first edition of Walt Whitman's book of poems, Leaves of Grass, is published in Brooklyn in 1855. The first edition was a small book of twelve poems, and the last was a compilation of over 400. via @Wikipedia

Leaves of Grass at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/1322

Leaves of Grass (Boston: Thayer and Eldridge, year 85 of the States, 1860-61) (New York Public Library). via @wikipedia
Walt Whitman (1819-1892), age 35, frontispiece to Leaves of Grass, Fulton St., Brooklyn, N.Y., 1855, steel engraving by Samuel Hollyer from a lost daguerreotype by Gabriel Harrison. via @wikipedia

I have just donated to , and if you care about preserving our culture for the next generations you should probably consider donating too.

With 15M books and 86M papers stored so far, this may easily be one of the largest open libraries on the Internet as of now.

As I said several times, I don't encourage . I've regularly purchased most of my from the Kindle store or other digital bookstores for years. As an author myself, I know how much we struggle to make any profit out of our hard work.

It's just that I think that, once purchased, it's my right as an owner to transfer the book to my computer, use a Calibre plugin to break whatever shitty encryption Amazon has decided to put on it this time, and transfer it in epub format to whatever device …

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Born 106 years ago this month, Gwendolyn Brooks is one of the most influential & widely read 20th century poets. With over 20 published books, she earned immense respect during her lifetime. For 32 years, she was the poet laureate of IL. She was the FIRST Black poet to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the FIRST Black woman named by the Library of Congress’ Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry.

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B/w image of poet, Gwendolyn Brooks in middle age.