Intanto per #Libriamoci al Gadda abbiamo la sigla di apertura, "Gotta keep reading": https://yewtu.be/watch?v=GNpNfhpqDk4
Qui trovate il testo: http://2kcamilla.weebly.com/uploads/8/6/6/1/8661032/gotta_keep_reading_lyrics.pdf #lettura #libri #reading #scuola #books

I "books picks of the day" le segnalazioni di @FediFollows a proposito di utenti del #Fediverso in qualche modo collegati ai #libri e alla #lettura si estendono per ben10 post: https://social.growyourown.services/@FediFollows/111348109070061642 Thanks so much 👏 👏 👏 Da leggere con calma 😃 #books #reading @alephoto85 @libri @macfranc @wikimediaitalia

Went to the local library and I shit you not, on the shelf of new books, next to a book about Photoshop was this one. #books #mastodon

Mathematician & inventor Charles Babbage died #OTD in 1871.

Babbage is considered by some to be "father of the computer". He is credited with inventing the first mechanical computer, the Difference Engine, that eventually led to more complex electronic designs, though all the essential ideas of modern computers are to be found in Babbage's Analytical Engine, programmed using a principle openly borrowed from the Jacquard loom.

Books by Babbage at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/556

#books #mathematics

With a special dedication to my mom who the other day told me she didn't sleep well. In the course of the conversation it turned out that she simply went to sleep at 5am after having finished it.
What can I say? I've been there too. I guess it's in the genes.
What about you? Do you read till late?

#books #bookstodon #amreading

“What an astonishing thing a book is… one glance at it & you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly & silently inside your head, directly to you.

Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. #Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.”

- Carl Sagan

"The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is or has been is but the twilight of the dawn."
The Discovery of the Future (1901)

Herbert George Wells died #OTD in 1946. Prolific in many genres, he wrote more than fifty novels and dozens of short stories. His non-fiction output included works of social commentary, politics, history, popular science, satire, biography, and autobiography. via @wikipedia

Books by H.G. Wells at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/30

#books #literature

Secret Life of H.G Wells
By Sometimes Interesting

Despite his fame as a distinguished man of letters, the secret life of HG Wells, particularly his erotic liaisons with a coterie of women, is both controversial and shocking.

https://sometimes-interesting.com/secret-life-of-hg-wells/

The secret loves of H.G. Wells unmasked
By Amelia Hill

A cache of previously suppressed material gives new details on the affairs of an unlikely Don Juan of the literary Thirties

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/jan/07/books.booksnews1

#books #biography

And here's another book I’ve just finished, for anyone who has studied (or is studying) maths. It’s a lovely gallop through the parts of mathematical history that we don’t hear about, steering away from the stories that focus on the “Great Men” of the white western world, and digging around in a far more global and diverse view of how mathematics was developed. Especially highly recommended for anyone teaching maths at any level. It’s out in a couple of weeks. #maths #books #history