The Advantages of #Text-Based #Information Versus #Videos, #Audio or #Images
https://www.karl-voit.at/2022/01/08/text-vs-video-audio-images/
I just published a comment by mizu where he refers to an interesting video from 1994: "maybe in the future #pharmacies and #bookstores will be the same since people will be so lazy to read the contents of a book that they will want to get the contents of the #books from something that they can digest easily, in the form of pills (or injections)."
For non-native speakers, reading Japanese books can expand your mind and offer fresh perspectives — about not only Japan itself, but any topic you can name. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2025/06/30/voices/japanese-books-gateway/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #community #voices #language #expats #reading #japaneselanguage #bookstores
Japanese language is your gateway to seeing the world anew
Every time I am back in Japan, I usually find myself wandering the aisles of Kinokuniya bookshop in Osaka, buying a few Japanese paperbacks on what might seem like random subjects. Collectively, these form the ever-growing tsundoku tower…
#Japan #JP #JapanNews #Bookstores #expats #Japanese #japaneselanguage #Japanesenews #language #news #reading
https://www.alojapan.com/1312080/japanese-language-is-your-gateway-to-seeing-the-world-anew/
https://www.alojapan.com/1312080/japanese-language-is-your-gateway-to-seeing-the-world-anew/ Japanese language is your gateway to seeing the world anew #Bookstores #expats #Japan #JapanNews #Japanese #JapaneseLanguage #JapaneseNews #language #news #reading Every time I am back in Japan, I usually find myself wandering the aisles of Kinokuniya bookshop in Osaka, buying a few Japanese paperbacks on what might seem like random subjects. Collectively, these form the ever-growing tsundoku tower of unread books by my bedside and in my mess…
It's any bookstore's right to decline to sell a book if they don't like it or the author. But is it a good idea?
https://garymcgath.com/wp/when-bookstores-refuse/ #bookstores #books
Favors to Do for Your Future Author Self
Author Kelli Estes shares more than 25 different favors that writers can do for their future author selves both before and after publication.
The post Favors to Do for Your Future Author Self appeared first on Writer's Digest.
https://www.writersdigest.com/favors-to-do-your-future-author-self
#BusinessofWriting #GetPublished #bookpromotion #bookstores #BusinessOfWriting
@indieauthors
Favors to Do for Your Future Author Self https://www.writersdigest.com/favors-to-do-your-future-author-self #BusinessofWriting #BusinessOfWriting #PublishingTrends #ResearchAdvice #bookpromotion #GetPublished #bookstores #platform
Why is everyone either making or buying a zine? The small, often handmade, self-published books are nothing new, but the zeal with which they've been embraced is stronger than ever. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/06/21/books/japanese-zines/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #books #zine #publishers #bookstores #zinefest #tokyoartbookfair
A buzzing zine scene across Japan packs passion in multiple formats
Cartoons of salarymen mid-nap on the train and invented words to describe their sleeping positions; an illustrator’s must-order coffee items while going through a breakup; a photographer’s favorite playground equipment to sit on when feeling …
#Japan #JP #JapanNews #Bookstores #news #publishers #TokyoArtBookFair #Zine #ZineFest
https://www.alojapan.com/1303216/a-buzzing-zine-scene-across-japan-packs-passion-in-multiple-formats/
https://www.alojapan.com/1303216/a-buzzing-zine-scene-across-japan-packs-passion-in-multiple-formats/ A buzzing zine scene across Japan packs passion in multiple formats #Bookstores #Japan #JapanNews #news #publishers #TokyoArtBookFair #Zine #ZineFest Cartoons of salarymen mid-nap on the train and invented words to describe their sleeping positions; an illustrator’s must-order coffee items while going through a breakup; a photographer’s favorite playground equipment to sit on when feeling sad — anything is fair game as a subject for a “zine.”…
🎇 Help save Philly's local solarpunk bookstore! Iffy Books, which has offered everything from books on permaculture to first aid workshops to open hours for soldering assistance, needs your help. Please share this letter widely!
I've been grateful for the opportunity this space offered me to rekindle my relationship with digital art for merch and run solar art and queer zine workshops. Iffy Books is irreplaceable in our community. To keep offering programs and resources that foster climate activism, right to repair, and skill sharing in Philly, we need to take action now.
https://post.lurk.org/@iffybooks/114704476101632628
#books #bookstodon #reading #philly #philadelphia #iffyBooks #climate #climateJustice #anarchist #anarchy #bookstore #bookshop #bookstores #skillsharing #skillshare #rightToRepair #solarPunk #solar #permaculture #permacomputing
New #BookReview: BATTLE OF THE BOOKSTORES by Ali Brady,, a sweet, spicy, and utterly bookish rom-com! @alibradybooks @berkleyromance @berkleypub @penguinrandomhouse #romcom #romance #romancereads #enemiestolovers #spicyromance #bookstores #romancestagram #bookstagram #romancelandia #booksky
http://stacyalesi.com/2025/06/13/battle-of-the-bookstores-by-ali-brady/
Shakespeare and Company in #Paris : in an age of disappearing #bookstores the only #bookstore I know which has always a queue in front of it where customers wait patiently to get in. It has mostly new paperback versions of older classics, but is still worth visiting. In the upper floor there is a kind of museum which contains older #books you can read on site (but not buy) and stuff like typewriters related to Hemingway and other writers who lived in Paris.
https://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/
Happy Pride Month! 🏳️🌈 For Canadians, booklovers, LGBTQIA+ allies: Glad Day Bookshop is the oldest queer bookshop in the world, based out of Toronto. It's looking for a new home and there's a fundraising campaign to help it secure a new sustainable solution!
More info, and to donate: https://www.gladday.ca/nextchapter
Buy books online: https://www.gladdaybookshop.com
More about Glad Day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glad_Day_Bookshop
Signal boosts appreciated 🙏
#LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #Toronto #Canada #books #PrideMonth #bookstores
“I can hear them when they come in, and a lot of times it’ll be like, ‘Oh, that smell. It smells so good.’ There’s something about decomposing paper that gives just some homey smell [and] feel.”
https://www.wpr.org/culture/wisconsin-road-trip/wisconsin-indie-bookstores-growth-driftless-books
I love #Bookstores #Housemans #Writers #Authors :graeber: 👁️ 🧨 📕 📗 📘 📔 📖 📓
