A Book for Your Thoughts?

Simba 📖 | 20s | Janloon, Alagaësia, Canada | Currently Reading; Atonement, Leonardo and the Last Supper

[being-simba]

Reading Atonement and feeling fucking insane.

[being-simba]

YOU ARE KILLING ME

[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.

[horrorinthegraveyard]

Hey, highkey from a library worker: 

Overdrive has a new mobile app called LIBBY I find it easier to use.  It’s the same content as Overdrive just better for mobile.  Overdrive and Libby both let you send items to your kindle as well.  

[tusks-and-tonics-deactivated202]

Can confirm Overdrive is amazing. 

I work in the largest library system in my state (17 branches in total).

I use it not only for ebooks, but movies as well.

Other FREE resources to check with your library for are:

Freegal Music (download and keep music, including current music)

Hoopla Digital (borrow ebooks, e-audiobooks, e-graphic novels, stream movies)

Kanopy (stream movies; also available on Roku!)

Axis360 (usually hot or just released ebooks)

If you don’t have a library card…

GET ONE!

If someone says libraries are a thing of the past…

BOOP THEM IN THE NOSE WITH YOUR KINDLE!

Don’t discount libraries as “quiet” places. 

THEY ARE ALIVE!!!

THEY ARE LOUD!!!

THEY ARE YOUR DOORWAYS TO KNOWLEDGE!!

[petermorwood]

Libraries are GREAT.

Also, when you borrow a book from a library, it generates a tiny payment for the author. Every 6 months or so, @dduane and I get money deposited in our bank accounts; it’s not much, but it’s enough to pay for a utility bill or an order of groceries.

[macrolit]

The Divine Comedy, Dante

[blacktwiste]

T H E G R E E N B O N E S A G A

"The clan is my blood and the Pillar is its master,” she whispered. “I have a lot of regrets in life, but those oaths aren’t one of them."

[macrolit]

Reblog with just TWO choices

[macrolit]

macrolit: Reblog with just TWO choices

[rhodeslibby]

@phantomness asked the infernal devices or if we were villains

“When did we become such terrible people?”

“Maybe we’ve always been terrible.”

[decembersoul]

Libraries with a sense of humour.

[macrolit]

If We Were Villains, M.L. Rio

[thecornercoffeeshop]

Bookshop spotted during an evening walk in Reykjavik

[missbard]

BOOKS READ IN 2018: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin

It is blasphemy to separate oneself from the earth and look down on it like a god. It is more than blasphemy; it is dangerous. We can never be gods, after all - but we can become something less than human with frightening ease.

[grayskymorning]

Hannah Briggs

[paperbackbones]

‘It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.’

The Secret History | Donna Tartt

[listentothestories]

cantstop.wontstop.reading

[dvrdennes]

                              LITERATURE POSTERS: IF WE WERE VILLAINS 

“ For us, everything was a performance. ” A small, private smile catches me off guard and I glance down, hoping he won’t see it. “ Everything poetic.” 

[parhelias]

donna tartt // THE SECRET HISTORY. THE LITTLE FRIEND. THE GOLDFINCH.

[alexisc-art]

Zélie from CHILDREN OF BLOOD AND BONE by Tomi Adeyemi. 

[saintjoan]

“But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.”

— Madeline Miller, excerpt from Circe