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Lady Thistle

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I use all three. I prefer an actual hard back book, because I find it easier to go back and refresh for clarity. Ebooks are useful for traveling. I love listening to audiobooks for boring or monotonous activities, such as: housework, driving, applying makeup, waiting in the doctor or dentist office.

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John Arnold

@templetongate @bibliolater I prefer e-ink books over hardcopy almost always, too. I mainly read novels, so illustrations and jumping back and forth aren't issues. Hardcopy I find more awkward to hold, too, particularly in bed, plus no back light ~ and if you hold your finger down on an unfamiliar word it doesn't pop up with the definition and etymology 🤣

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Søren Sandager Sørensen

The #Danish prepositions "af" and "ad" are both usually pronounced [æ] and have been so for over 100 years - but are still written diffferently to this day.

"Af" is probably as wide in meaning as English "of", "ad" is more restricted, in meaning close to "along, at, to".

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Galen Strickland

@bibliolater @bookstodon Electronic books for the most part, either those I have bought or through the library. I read some in print, but my aging eyes appreciate being able to enlarge the font of an ebook.

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Billy Smith

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Yes. :D

All of them for different purposes. :D

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In the last year which of the following platforms have you used the most for accessing ?

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Paul Sutton

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Could have a look at peer tube, it is decentralised so depending on interest there may be a specific instance with the content you are looking for

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hexaheximal

@bibliolater mostly notifications actually 🥴

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I am trying to wean myself off from , do you have any suggestions as to an alternative platform where I can consume content?

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On which do you spend most of your ?

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Jorge Candeias

@bibliolater That calls for a poll.

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Home or Local or Federated on which do you spend most of your ?

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"We designed the Vibrating Ingestible BioElectronic Stimulator (VIBES) pill, an ingestible device that performs luminal vibratory stimulation to activate mechanoreceptors and stroke mucosal receptors, which induces serotonin release and yields a hormonal metabolic response commensurate with a fed state."

Shriya S. Srinivasan et al., A vibrating ingestible bioelectronic stimulator modulates gastric stretch receptors for illusory satiety. Sci. Adv. 9, eadj3003(2023). DOI: doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adj3003 @science @engineering

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"From insight into our human ancestry and breakthroughs on the moon to a flourishing of AI and terrifying new developments in the climate, it was a year of scientific drama" theguardian.com/science/2023/d @science

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"The Invisible Empire was a product of an affective urge to recreate a mythical past based on religious and racial homogeneity, and Klansmen therefore sought to embody a self-proclaimed ideal for what they claimed signified true Americanism. This ideal included notions of patriotism, nativism, white supremacism, and Protestant theology."

Gustaf Forsell (2020) Blood, Cross and Flag: The Influence of Race on Ku Klux Klan Theology in the 1920s, Politics, Religion & Ideology, 21:3, 269-287, DOI: doi.org/10.1080/21567689.2020.

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"For some time the Parliamentary leaders were able to resist demands that Christmas should be abolished in England, but it happened that in 1644 Christmas Day fell upon a Wednesday, and the last Wednesday in each month was by law to be kept as a day of solemn fast and penance. The question was whether December 25th should be an exception to the general rule. In deference to the Scots, Parliament decided with evident unwillingness that it should not." historytoday.com/archive/featu

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"Bradford’s comments reflected Puritans’ lingering anxiety about the ways that Christmas had been celebrated in England. For generations, the holiday had been an occasion for riotous, sometimes violent behavior. The moralist pamphleteer Phillip Stubbes believed that Christmastime celebrations gave celebrants license “to do what they lust, and to folow what vanitie they will.” He complained about rampant “fooleries” like playing dice and cards and wearing masks." theconversation.com/why-the-pu

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"This article argues that the liturgical tradition of celebrating Christmas on 25 December travelled from the Latin West to the Greek East at the behest of Theodosius I upon his arrival in Constantinople in AD 380. From there it made its way to Cappadocia, Pontus and Syrian Antioch by means of travelling clerics who belonged to a pro-Nicene network."

EDWARDS ROBERTGT. Travelling Festivals in Late Antiquity: How Christmas Came to the Greek East. The Journal of Ecclesiastical History. 2023:1-17. doi: doi.org/10.1017/S0022046923000 @histodon @histodons @antiquidons

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@bookstodon I am still : qoto.org/@bibliolater/11151803. I am a slow reader.

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Project Gutenberg

French philologist and orientalist Jean-François Champollion was born #OTD in 1790.

He is known primarily as the decipherer of Egyptian hieroglyphs and a founding figure in the field of Egyptology. In 1822, he was the first to decipher the hieroglyphs inscribed on the Rosetta Stone discovered in Egypt in 1798, paving the way for the understanding of a thousand-year-old civilization. via @wikipedia

Books by Jean-François Champollion @ PG:
gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/36

#books #archeology #philology

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