Book Whorder

My personal library is my pride and joy. A collection bordering obsession. In every sense of the word, I am a Book Whorder.

[bookwhorder]

My birthday book haul!

[sbutterflly]

[cheesey-toast]

Found this on facebook but reposting to SAVE A LIFE.

Or at least some of y’all’s GPAs.

You’re welcome.

[teacup-crow]

Holy shit? thanks op!

[punkrockclone]

for comp sci, physics, math, etc p much everything is uploaded by authors to https://arXiv.org

also, use Unpaywall

(and sci-hub but I didn’t tell you this)

[reckonedrightly]

Bad literature is our only hope.

[maxandthespidersfrommars-deacti]

Outcast #goals

[glumshoe]

What would it take for someone to sell you three “magic beans” for $10 at a farmer’s market?

Specifically, what kind of person would you buy magic beans from? You have no way of knowing if the beans are actually magical - they probably aren’t. But just how colorful a character would a magic bean salesman have to be before you willingly spent $10 for the experience of buying magic beans from an eccentric stranger?

[glumshoe]

I wouldn’t buy $10 magic beans from a young man with an undercut and suspenders with sailor tattooes on his forearms. He might be a nice guy - maybe I’d be friends with him. But I would not spend $10 for the experience of purchasing magic beans from him, unless they were actual real magic beans and he could prove that.

I might buy $10 magic beans from a small child in a wizard costume. It depends. Maybe if they’re really committed to the role - then I’m purchasing the privilege of interacting with them.

I might but $10 magic beans from an incredibly sexy, mysterious lady with long opera gloves and glittering eyes, but probably not - I might give her money just for smiling at me but I don’t think she’d really have the right vibe for selling magic beans. Potions, yes. Not beans.

I’d probably buy magic beans from a wild-haired, cheerful witch in overalls and mud boots, but that wouldn’t really be about the beans, it’d be about finding excuses to talk to her.

I’d absolutely buy magic beans from a toothless old person dressed entirely in hot pink or chartreuse who answered my questions with rambling non-sequiturs and told me long, scandalous, scientifically impossible stories about how things used to be.

[thededfa]

I would buy three magic beans from the white haired woman who sits on the back of her pickup with dozens of jars of jelly laid out on a table in the abandoned fair ground. She doesn’t sell jelly; she sells potted plants. If you compliment her on her wooden sandals though, she will give you a jar of jelly. She asks if my children are twins every week, and is disappointed they aren’t twins every week. I would buy three magic beans for $10 from her.

On another note, I have traded a crocheted snowflake for ten acorns with a small, barefoot, blonde child in a white dress I encountered in the woods. Two of the acorns sprouted on the way home and I now have them growing in pots.

[221cbakerstreet]

dude at some point the signs for the goblin market and the farmer’s market in your town got switched but your fae are too polite to say anything when you keep coming back

[the-bookshop]

[bookwhorder]

[valtsv]

and how exactly am i supposed to find love in a world where no one will say “you have bewitched me body and soul” to me as a pickup line unironically??? that’s what i thought

[bookwhorder]

Coffee & Books

[bookwhorder]

[bookwhorder]

Last Weekends Book Haul!

[almavio]

Florin Ion Firimitã, Idol, ‘The Bookstore Project’ series, 2018

[clarkslex]

we need more books that are written like YA novels but have characters in their 20s… like I can’t keep reading books about teenagers but I’m also not ready for the weird adult romance section of the book store

[softguts]

YES YES YES YA should be written for 13-25’s in terms of characters ages k

[miss-nj-writes]

this is why New adult needs a branding makeover!

[bookcub]

Imagine if the New Adult genre actually took advantage of being older YA and not just the exact same plot and characters in all but 5 books

[booksfrommyshelf]

I am haunted by all the editions of books that are prettier than the ones I already own.

[loquaciousliterature]

Hermione has some moments that are pretty darn relatable in Prisoner of Azkaban… 😬 

A big shoutout to my patrons for voting for me to make a comic of a scene that wasn’t in the books! They suggested I try drawing a scene that was mentioned, but never shown, so I drew this scene of Hagrid helping Hermione through a particularly rough time in PoA! I hope you guys enjoy! 😊

⚡⚡⚡ More HP Comics  – Obliviate, my HP comic zine, is also restocked on Etsy!

[halftruthsandhyperbole]

Today I learned

[ouijubell]

Free Audiobooks and Ebooks on OVERDRIVE.

Free Graphic Novels (DC, Marvel, Image, etc), Music, TV shows, and music on HOOPLA.

Free music that you can KEEP on FREEGAL

You are PAYING for all this with your tax money - USE THEM. Most likely systems will have all 3 or 2 out of 3, so if you aren’t sure call your local library’s reference/information desk and how you can get set-up or started.

[pikestaff-deactivated20200113]

Helpful links to all of the above:

Overdrive: https://www.overdrive.com/

Hoopla: https://www.hoopladigital.com/

Freegal: https://www.freegalmusic.com/home

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More places to find FREE EBOOKS:

Standard eBooks (basically stuff off of Project Gutenberg, but prettified)

Baen Free Library

Book Bub - Free eBooks and Free Kindle books

Bubblin Books

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Useful if you’re an ebook power user: Calibre

[delphid]

Oh yes, and Kanopy for movies.

Watch over 30,000 Documentaries, Classic and Indie Films. On Desktop, Mobile and Roku for Students, Professors & Library Patrons.

[bluebeardsbride-archive]

“oh, he loves her; just as the English loved India and Africa and Ireland; it is the love that is the problem, people treat their lovers badly”

— Zadie Smith, White Teeth