🎉 Welcome to the Public Domain, HELL'S ANGELS (1930) ✈️🔥 🎬 Howard Hughes’ massive aviation epic stunned audiences with spectacular aerial combat sequences, real stunt flying, and one of Jean Harlow’s b…
Meet Caritas Pirckheimer: Scholar, Abbess, and Renaissance Writer When the Protestant Reformation swept through Nuremberg, one abbess refused to surrender her convent. Caritas Pirckheimer used scholar…
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Guide to the classics: Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World pioneered speculative fiction, 400 years ago The Blazing World is a testament to how far the written novel has travelled in the past 400 y…
Agatha Christie: what made the world’s bestselling author so successful? Here’s a clue Besides wit, style and psychological insight, Christie had the capacity to generate a mood of ‘trustful mistrust’…
🧵1/3 What happens when libraries can no longer preserve the knowledge they collect? 📚⚠️ @brewsterkahle warns that the systems connecting libraries, readers, and cultural memory are becoming dangerously…
Congrats to "SAVE THE HOMELAND" by Todd Tokashiki, a Finalist in the Internet Archive’s 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest 🎬 Haunting archival imagery of early 20th-century Palestine with powerful …
Love Language The undying dream of Esperanto by Katie Thornton https://harpers.org/archive/2026/06/love-language-katie-thornton-esperanto/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01KSQ7JVHVABAKF…
On the Literary Afterlife of Japan's First Working Woman Writer Translator Bryan Karetnyk Considers the Work of Higuchi Ichiyō https://lithub.com/on-the-literary-afterlife-of-japans-first-working-woma…
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Something understood. How to read poetry. "I want to be the sort of person who reads poetry, but I don’t always understand it." by Henry Oliver https://www.commonreader.co.uk/p/something-understood-ho…
@danaukes Maybe we should join you in this reading...
Technology can become a “shell game” of responsibility, where companies push the consequences of dangerous systems onto individuals instead of the decisions made in boardrooms. On the Future Knowledge…
“People aren’t sure what’s true, and what libraries are here for is to help with that.” Brewster Kahle, digital librarian of the Internet Archive, discusses the future of the #WaybackMachine in ABC Ra…
Let's celebrate, Project Gutenberg joined #fediverse 3 years ago! Thank you for all your support, in particular @gbnewby (he will always be in our hearts), @gluejar , @lhamilton1515 . We would also li…
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How the Great Pyramid of Giza has survived 4,500 years of Egyptian earthquakes by Colin Caprani an Scott Menegon https://theconversation.com/how-the-great-pyramid-of-giza-has-survived-4-500-years-of-e…
Librarians at War The origins of today’s vast intelligence apparatus can be traced, in part, to the forgotten efforts of librarians and archivists to gather information during World War II by Kathy Pe…
1️⃣,0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣,0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ That's one million pages digitized and counting. The Institute of Governmental Studies at UC Berkeley is marking this major milestone in its LoCAL Digitization Project. A growing archive of …
