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The Internet Archive is pulling out all the stops defending their action.Public Statement: Supporting Waitlist Suspension for Books Loaned by the Internet Archive During the US National Emergency
March 24, 2020
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1v...
Public Statement of Library Copyright Specialists: Fair Use & Emergency Remote Teaching & Research
https://docs.google.com/document/d/10...
COVID-19, Copyright, & Library Superpowers (Part I)
https://kylecourtney.com/2020/03/11/c...
I'm using a Roku with the CBS All Access app, so no casting. The Roku version of the CBS app is pretty solid.
City of Brass would be a good alt-pick.
But blowing up is part of march madness. I filled out the 2020 US census questionnaire the other day. The questionnaire says Please answer BOTH Question 8 about Hispanic origin and Question 9 about race. For this census, Hispanic origins are not races. I wasn't expecting to this. This type of query used to be all rolled into one question. For Question 8 I chose Yes and specified New Mexican, because I'm from New Mexico. If I stop posting it will be because the Census Police have come to take me away.
For a limited time, Subterranean Press is giving away the ebook of The Tea Master and the Detective by Aliette de Bodard. If you like Sherlockian SF, this is a terrific tale.https://subterraneanpress.com/news/al...
The free trial permits access to everything on CBS All Access. With this deal, it sounds like only Picard is available to watch.
The U.S.'s Largest Comics Distributor Is No Longer Shipping, Due to Covid-19https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-u-s-s-lar...
A couple of authors making short fiction available for free:Adrian Tchaikovsky
https://twitter.com/aptshadow/status/...
Richard Kadrey
https://twitter.com/Richard_Kadrey/st...
D'oh! And I can't use ebooks as TP.
What's the Japanese word for "buying" too many ebooks that are being given away for free to help us out while we are social-distancing/self-isolating/under-quarantine? Asking for a friend.
Free ebooks for your COVID-19 social distancing. Available until March 31st from Apex Publishing.https://www.apexbookcompany.com/produ...
The bundle of ebooks includes
Machine by Jennifer Pelland (dark SF)
Stay Crazy by Erica L. Satifka (dark SF)
Maze by J.M. McDermott (dark fantasy)
Beautiful Sorrows by Mercedes M. Yardley (horror)
Like Death by Tim Waggoner (horror)
New book releases are being delayed. Tamsyn Muir and Tor just announced that Harrow the Ninth will be delayed.https://twitter.com/tazmuir/status/12...
The entire first act will be available for free on April 14 and on June 2, what would have been the original release day, a new short story will released.
I'm not inclined to read plague fiction right now, but if you are, here is an Associated Press articlePlague as art: Over the centuries, many kinds of stories
https://apnews.com/7dd8c74df3917e4233...
Mar 22, 2020 01:51PM
This autoplayed after Ruth's video. It really belongs over in the Mandalorian thread, but maybe the cat should have it's own thread.https://youtu.be/dh4uUt3Bbjs
Sometimes I get an urge to a read a book I know I have, but it's lost in a pile of books or packed up in a box buried beneath other boxes full of books, so I just find an ebook edition. I wonder if I'll ever see those lost books again?
Audible is offering books you can listen to for free. They don't have a SF&F category, but the Literary Classics section has some speculative fiction titlesBrave New World by Aldous Huxley
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
and more titles for kids, tweens, teens, as well as titles on languages other than English
https://stories.audible.com/discovery
What’s a metre? ;-)
I pre-ordered the kindle edition from Amazon US. No change in order status.
