The weekend is here! Now I can spend two days in bed looking at the fan and overthink.
@maison_faim You can also look at the screen and all that's coming by, interact and fly into new directions.
Hours later, lost in a Wikipedia page about some exotic Amazonian river fish, you wonder what happened.
Life is amazing. 😉
@design_RG I have stared at the screen long enough at work.
@maison_faim Ah, I understand, so off the screens then.
Maybe read a book. Or go out if the weather is nice. Late Fall here, and weather is gloomy, grey, dakr and sometimes rain or snow.
Great time to dive into these networks for me. Until Spring comes, this will keep me happy and ticking. 😄
@maison_faim I just posted a status here yesterday - found a site with LOTS of full books you can read online.
No download or epubs, but he's not worried about copyright either.
@design_RG looks interesting. I will check it out.
@design_RG I am okay with sci fi. Suggest anything that you find really good.
@maison_faim I will mention great sci-fi authors that I like, then.
1- Cory Doctorow, he's got many of his books out under a CC license, even can be dloaded from his own site.
Easiest source if you want an epub to read: manybooks.net
https://manybooks.net/search-book?search=Cory Doctorow
Maybe start with one of his short stories collections? it would give you a taste of what it's like without committing to a full book.
His personal site is always easy to remember for me: https://craphound.com
Here is one page, for a good novel if you like cyberpunk. https://craphound.com/overclocked/2014/01/14/when-sysadmins-ruled-the-earth-mobi-and-epub-2/
2- Neal Stephenson is one of my favourite writers ever.
I was trying to load https://bookfrom.net/ to see if they have any of his books, but the site is not responding atm (could have been taken down, or just a glitch)
3- If not si-fi, how about Siddhartha, by Herman Hesse? https://manybooks.net/titles/hesseheretext01siddh10.html
Manybooks.net has man, mny good books. All of them are legal and free downloads.
I use a couple of ebook readers, like FBreader and BlueFire Reader, which have direct links to Manybooks and Feedbooks in their Library section. It's wonderful when you just want something new; find and download, instantly available.
@design_RG Thanks a ton. This is very different from my usual reading list. I think I will enjoy it.
@maison_faim Yuo are welcome. 😄
@maison_faim When I posted the ManyBooks.net search results for Cory Doctorow above, the link shows broken - by a space in the name not taken as part of the URL.
Retry -- https://manybooks.net/search-book?search=%22Cory%20Doctorow%22
@maison_faim Do you like Sci-Fi? I could offer some good suggestions on that.
Or other genres if I knew what you prefer.