#Books

One of the recurring questions I get is "How do you learn all this stuff?". There is no shortcut, just tons of time. At the start of channel my every
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Do you or someone you know have a book buying problem?Are you constantly ordering new books every week? Are your bookshelves packed to the edge?Here's a reading tip to save
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The only person you hurt when pirating books is the author.Big corporations can get new authors.Amazon will find other workers to exploit. But authors publish books because the have rent
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Making money online is easy.As easy as selling blank books.I’m not joking.I sell blank books for money.I’m going to show you how.Welcome to...“Make Money With Blank Books”- A Thread -
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BEATRIX POTTER: (places book down) this one is about a rabbit PUBLISHER: beatrice this time we really are going to need something more than a small animal walking somewhereBEATRIX POTTER:
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Harry Potter was the series that got me to learn how to read, and I had a lot of affection for it because of the formative role it played in
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THREAD TIME!! We want to know types of book you enjoy reading most and what you may be open to trying. Feel free to quote, if your response isn't listed
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People grow up in different situations. But I was lucky, as were my kids, to have public libraries growing up. If there is a social cause dear to my heart,
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When reading my child stories I often swop round sexed pronouns, I also substitute 'the children' or 'the group' when books refer to the boys and the girls etc. I
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I got tagged in a review saying MAYA AND THE RISING DARK is a good read for "children of African descent." No one ever says Harry Potter or Percy
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This is, of course, a garbage chart, and by all means dunk on this man.At the same time, let's also dunk on whatever the hell "AllSides" is and the deeper
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the problem with philosophy as a major isn't that they study philosophy, but that so many do not practice it the stereotypical philosophy major is one that uses philosophy as
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In 1953, Paul Niquette coined the term "software."At the time, computers were colloquially called "giant brains" but they were inert until a program inputted semipermanent routines in the computer's memory.
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Excellent threadhttps://twitter.com/somesillywowzer/status/1334574405750558721 This one always interests me cause I went through a phase of being very very interested in Ancient Egypt when I was a kid. I had a lot
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1) The best way to learn a language, after initialisation [read: knowing 500-1000 words in that language and some basic grammar] is to read serious stuff in it. Every new
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I recently got in an argument with an old bookstore colleague about how I think booksellers, generally and always, should commit to stocking books from a variety of voices, particularly
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