After an online training on #ReadersAdvisory for Millennials and Generation Z, I made a mega list on Libby called “Romantasy” and ended up needing arthritis cream on my wrist today with all the mouse work. Overdrive findability is tough. Metadata is scant. Neither author nor genre searches recovered most of these. It’s almost like they want to bury your old content licences. #Romantasy#LibbyApp#librarian#bookstodon#ebooks#curation @bookstodon @librarians
Reading "San Marino la storia in miniatura" and the passage about people acquiring RSM passports in the mid C19 reminded me of the Customs officer who was stumped by the RSM stamp on my passport as we left Rome (a gimmicky tourist souvenir that cost €5 then) - he looked at at it and asked "did you enter San Marino directly?" D'Oh! 🤦♂️ (if it WERE possible, RSM is not a Schengen state, so maybe the 90 days wouldn't start until we left 😀 ) #AmReading#ebooks@bookstodon
Reading " San Marino la storia in miniatura" for a reading challenge @thestorygraph and the vocabulary, with lots of 19th century officialese, is a challenge, but so is the absence of commas in lists. Not just the "oxford comma"; the author will pile adjectives together or lists of objects, with not a comma in sight. Is this standard practice in #Italian ? #AmReading#ebooks#nonfiction#History@bookstodon
Reading The Bangalore Detectives Club book 1, and really enjoying it. I hadn't realised was set in the 1920s, when my great-grandmother was living there, so learning more of the place is fun. As is the reference to Lady Molly, I might have to dust off my Orzcy and check her out #AmReading#ebooks#Kobo#India#mystery@bookstodon
I'm no expert at maths in much the same way ostriches are not experts in flying , but something still seems a bit suss about this, from "Word Perfect: Etymological Entertainment For Every Day of the Year" by Susie Dent. Unless, of course, my copy "had the good fortune to fall through a time warp from a hundred years in the future" 😀 #Nonfiction#etymology#language#AmReading#ebooks#Kobo@bookstodon
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Trying my (and the) second Jack Haldean mystery "Mad About the Boy?" - 1/4 in and I'm (a) glad I have never had any so-called "friend" as utterly unsympathetic, uncaring and obtuse about others as Jack Haldean and (2) wondering why someone hasn't killed HIM yet. #AmReading#ebooks#Kobo#aurumzeitlich#Mystery@bookstodon
"He asked me to play a guest spot in his outrageously good series The Games."
Sam Neill's mentions of John Clarke are a bittersweet highlight of his memoir "Did I Ever Tell You This?" and the quote above made me want to watch that marvellous show all over again. The 100-metre track episode timeless comedy genius, imo
Another snippet of Romagnolo in "San Marino la storia in miniatura" once again stumping all the online translators I know of
"S’t’vù che ai tu penn al tignol a n’ dega dan fai ciapé la guaza ad San Zvan"