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As a reader, do you prefer when people give you random books as gifts, or do you prefer getting a gift card to a bookstore (so you can pick the book)? Just curious.

Unless I’m asked about a specific book, I prefer the bookstore card 📚
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Archergal,
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@kimlockhartga @Likewise @bookstodon My taste is books is pretty specialized. No one likely to give me a gift would be likely to pick one I’d enjoy. 😕

Lassielmr,
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@Likewise @bookstodon I prefer the gift card, but would be happy any way

jaztrophysicist, to random French
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Morilles dans la brume

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Inside a 250 year old French Violin. Photographed with a Medical Laparoscope adapted to a Lumix G9ii Camera. A 1770 violin by Augustin Chappuy.

elaterite,
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@postfilm That is totally awesome! At first glance, on this tiny phone screen, I thought it was a photo on an interesting underground vault or room of some sort. Gonna have to check this out on my desktop monitor! Very cool!

ozdreaming,
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@elaterite @postfilm I want the audio track too!

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What’s a book you’d like to read next year, either a newly published book in 2024 or a book that you didn’t get to this year?

I’ll start:

The Year of the Locust by Terry Hayes (2024 pub. date) & A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (not new 😉).
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MarianHellema,
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Me: looking forward to Dennis Lehane - Small Mercies

and many others :)

Lightfighter,
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@Likewise @bookstodon Just continuing my read through of what I call my, 'often quoted, never read', reading list. Finishing up Josephus now, probably going to move on to Xenophon next.

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Friendly reminder: Get your eyes checked, new glasses will do wonders for you & might even make your books better 😉🤓
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EllieK,
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just trialling a new prescription of monthly multi focals after working with a contact lens specialist following a recent eye test. (Previously, I used dailies, from an older prescription.) So far, so good, though, oddly, better in the afternoon and evening. It was so good to find someone who specializes in contacts and is willing to work through issues with older eyes.

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My favorite aesthetic.
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MikeHar94962844,
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@Likewise @bookstodon They look nicely aged.

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Kindles are a uniquely portable magic.

RVLara23,
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@Enema_Cowboy @Likewise @bookstodon Pretty solid idea! My library is fairly robust so there's not a lot I'm looking for that I can't find there. But when something does come up I just go looking for a real copy.

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@Enema_Cowboy

I'm just such a father

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A high-five to everyone who chose to decline an invitation to an office party last Thursday and who opened up slack this morning to dozens of messages from sick people because it turned into a super spreader. Moxxi is proud of you.

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18+ Amimoregore,
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Tai Pei is an economic powerhouse. It's a relative pariah in regards to its sovereignty. It's a world leader in microprocessors and semi conductors but for whatever reason American wrestling decided in the 90s that scene from Rambo with glass taped fist fights is the #taipeideathmatch and the name's stuck ever since. Here's Lady Blakely vs President Hawkins in a Tai Pei #deathmatch #wrestling #blood #indiewrestling #killdozer #photography

Lady Blakely and President Edward Hawkins square up with taped up glass covered fists
President Hawkins grinds his fist into Blakely's head
Blakely punches Hawkins' head in a takedown

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And some of the finales. Nothing makes me more nervous photographing ringside than glass pane matches and an unexpected explosive trap match

Catch this replay on IWTV https://independentwrestling.tv/promotion/h2o

#indiewrestling #blood #deathmatch #wrestling #photography

Alex Stretch gets driven through a glass pane by Deklan Grant
Mouse and Killdozer duel with fluorescent light tubes
Killdozer slam mouse onto an explosive trap

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All I Want For Christmas is for you to get off my books. @bookstodon

BryanW,
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@Likewise @bookstodon And the snake said, "all I want for Christmas is to squeeze you." 🤣

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Just a gratuitous naked shelfie.

What are you reading this evening? I’m still reading David Copperfield and also in the middle of Little Monsters by Adrienne Brodeur. @bookstodon

AndyPaciorekArt,
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@Likewise @bookstodon

Fiction - Thin Air by Michelle Paver.
Non-Fiction - Crooks Like Us by Peter Doyle

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RickiTarr,
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@Likewise @bookstodon I love how this picture looks like a fun Adult Show and Tell

Likewise,
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@RickiTarr @bookstodon Thanks, they are both nuts 😊

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