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Destruir livros, proibir livros, parecia uma prática do passado. Pois, não é. E é um sintoma do autoritarismo crescente dos regimes, um pouco por todo o mundo.
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Governments are spending a remarkable amount of resources attacking books — because their supposed limitations are beginning to look like ageless strengths.
Around the world, many authoritarian regimes — having largely corralled the internet — now have declared war on the written word, their oldest enemy. The received wisdom after the close of the Cold War was that physical books were outdated, soon to be swept aside in the digital age; and that the internet was instead the real threat to governments seeking to repress provocative thinking. A generation later, the opposite may be true.
The People’s Republic of China has been the most successful in curbing the internet.
(....)Even before the current Hong Kong prottests, there was a crackdown on Hong Kong publishers. In the fall of 2015, associates of the Causeway Bay Books store disappeared, later discovered to have been detained on the mainland, accused of trafficking in “illegal” books critiquing leading members of the Communist Party. In 2017, the Communist Party formally took control of all print media, including books.
They are, of course, far from alone.(...) Brazil, to Hungary, to the Philippines, literature that expresses any kind of political opposition is under a unique, renewed threat. Books that challenge normative values, especially those with L.G.B.T. themes, have been hit especially hard. History textbooks crafted by independent scholars are being replaced with those produced by the state at a disturbing rate. In Russia, a new even stricter set of censorship laws was announced in March to punish those expressing “clear disrespect” for the state (i.e. effectively Putin himself).
Regimes are expending so much energy attacking books because their supposed limitations have begun to look like strengths: With online surveillance, digital reading carries with it great risks and semi-permanent footprints; a physical book, however, cannot monitor what you are reading and when, cannot track which words you mark or highlight, does not secretly scan your face, and cannot know when you are sharing it with others.
Coisas úteis de pessoas competentes que não nos custam dez anos de trabalho e a saúde na miséria:
por beatriz j a, em 07.03.19
45 sites onde se pode ir ler livros gratuitamente:
- Classic Bookshelf: This site has put classic novels online, from Charles Dickens to Charlotte Bronte.
- The Online Books Page: The University of Pennsylvania hosts this book search and database.
- Project Gutenberg: This famous site has over 27,000 free books online (in fact, a lot of the books listed in subsequent sites here can be found at PG – yet we list the others as users may prefer different site’s interfaces, while the others below also help tailor searches for specific types of books or plays).
- Page by Page Books: Find books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and H.G. Wells, as well as speeches from George W. Bush on this site.
- Classic Book Library: Genres here include historical fiction, history, science fiction, mystery, romance and children’s literature, but they’re all classics.
- Classic Reader: Here you can read Shakespeare, young adult fiction and more.
- Read Print: From George Orwell to Alexandre Dumas to George Eliot to Charles Darwin, this online library is stocked with the best classics.
- Planet eBook: Download free classic literature titles here, from Dostoevsky to D.H. Lawrence to Joseph Conrad.
- The Spectator Project: Montclair State University’s project features full-text, online versions ofThe Spectator and The Tatler.
- Bibliomania: This site has more than 2,000 classic texts, plus study guides and reference books.
- Online Library of Literature: Find full and unabridged texts of classic literature, including the Bronte sisters, Mark Twain and more.
- Bartleby: Bartleby has much more than just the classics, but its collection of anthologies and other important novels made it famous.
- us:Fiction.us has a huge selection of novels, including works by Lewis Carroll, Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson, Flaubert, George Eliot, F. Scott Fitzgerald and others.
- Free Classic Literature: Find British authors like Shakespeare and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, plus other authors like Jules Verne, Mark Twain, and more.
- net: Here you can read plays by Chekhov, Thomas Hardy, Ben Jonson, Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe and others.
- Plays: ReadPygmalion, Uncle Vanya or The Playboy of the Western World
- The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: MIT has made available all of Shakespeare’s comedies, tragedies, and histories
- Plays Online: This site catalogs “all the plays [they] know about that are available in full text versions online for free.”
- ProPlay: This site has children’s plays, comedies, dramas and musicals.
- Public Bookshelf: Find romance novels, mysteries and more.
- The Internet Book Database of Fiction: This forum features fantasy and graphic novels, anime, J.K. Rowling and more.
- Free Online Novels: Here you can find Christian novels, fantasy and graphic novels, adventure books, horror books and more.
- Foxglove: This British site has free novels, satire and short stories.
- Baen Free Library: Find books by Scott Gier, Keith Laumer and others.
- The Road to Romance: This website has books by Patricia Cornwell and other romance novelists.
- Get Free Ebooks: This site’s largest collection includes fiction books.
- John T. Cullen: Read short stories from John T. Cullen here.
- SF and Fantasy Books Online: Books here includeArabian Nights,Aesop’s Fables and more.
- Free Novels Online and Free Online Cyber-Books: This list contains mostly fantasy books.
- The Literature Network: This site features forums, a copy of The King James Bible, and over 3,000 short stories and poems.
- Poetry: This list includes “The Raven,” “O Captain! My Captain!” and “The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde.”
- Poem Hunter: Find free poems, lyrics and quotations on this site.
- Famous Poetry Online: Read limericks, love poetry, and poems by Robert Browning, Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Lord Byron and others.
- Google Poetry: Google Books has a large selection of poetry, from The Canterbury Talesto Beowulf to Walt Whitman.
- com: Read poems by Maya Angelou, William Blake, Sylvia Plath and more.
- com: Rudyard Kipling, Allen Ginsberg and Alfred Lord Tennyson are all featured here.
- com: On this site, you can download free poetry ebooks.
- Banned Books: Here you can follow links of banned books to their full text online.
- World eBook Library: This monstrous collection includes classics, encyclopaedias, children’s books and a lot more.
- DailyLit: DailyLit has everything fromMoby Dick to the more recent phenomenon, Skinny Bitch.
- A Celebration of Women Writers: The University of Pennsylvania’s page for women writers includes Newbery winners.
- Free Online Novels: These novels are fully online and range from romance to religious fiction to historical fiction.
- net: Download mysteries and other books for your iPhone or eBook reader here.
- Authorama: Books here are pulled from Google Books and more. You’ll find history books, novels and more.
- Prize-winning books online: Use this directory to connect to full-text copies of Newbery winners, Nobel Prize winners and Pulitzer winners.
There are alternate universes!
...e couves! Cházinho durante os próximos dias que este Natal houve um certo abusozinho de bacalhau com couves, tarte de mirtílios (a tarte estava uma delícia), bolo dos namorados e gelado de suspiros com morangos. E ofereceram-me uma couve portuguesa daquelas a sério, não das que se vendem em supermercados mas das que se vão comprar à terragem.
De modo que, couves ao almoço (a couve pesa 2 quilos, há muita couve para comer), andar para desmoer isto, cházinho e livros pela tarde, no quentinho, sossegadinha 🙂 que o Natal é para isso mesmo, depois da festa, fazer slow down, beber chá e ler.
« I libri e il sapere danno agli uomini, più di qualsiasi altra cosa, il sentimento della propria dignità e l’odio della tirannia. »
È de La Boétie, “Discorso sulla servitù volontaria”
(os livros e o saber dão ao homem, mais do que qualquer outra coisa, o sentimento da própria dignidade e o ódio à tirania)
[E. Hopper, "Compartimento C, vagone 193" (1938)]
... é preciso ignorar a tradução que é péssima.
Emprestaram-me, disseram-me que é muito bom. Vamos ver.
Georgy Kurasov - woman reading book with orange
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Como se sabe, este ministro -que feliz e finalmente está de saída- obriga a "que os alunos do primeiro ano tenham de ler, pelo menos, 55 palavras por minuto; os do segundo ano, 90 palavras; os do terceiro, 110. Até ao sexto ano, o Ministério da Educação impõe que os alunos tenham de ler corretamente 150 palavras por minuto."
Hey parents! Hello...?
Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere. Jean Rhys
Livros trocam de mãos
A leitura no espaço público de Setúbal é promovida numa nova ação cultural que fomenta a troca e a partilha das mais variadas obras literárias, iniciada na manhã de dia 22, com a instalação de uma dezena de suportes para publicações.
“Traga um livro e leve outro!” A frase dá o mote do “Clipe de Leitura” e salta à vista nos suportes metálicos fixados em bancos de jardim, com o objetivo de funcionarem como pontos de troca dos mais variados tipos de leitura, de livros a vários títulos de imprensa escrita local e nacional.
“O objetivo primordial é promover a leitura no espaço público”, destaca Rui Pereira, da Associação Cultural e Artística Elucid’Arte, promotora da iniciativa, desenvolvida com a Câmara Municipal de Setúbal.
A Avenida Luísa Todi, numa área compreendida entre a Biblioteca Pública Municipal e o coreto, e o Parque do Bonfim, na praça do lago, foram os locais escolhidos para o arranque do projeto.
A ideia do “Clipe de Leitura”, assim como o suporte metálico criado, são inspirados numa iniciativa semelhante dinamizada na Holanda. A ação naquele país foi o “ponto de partida para replicar, com as devidas adaptações, o projeto em Setúbal”, adianta Rui Pereira.
Os livros, uns da coleção privada da Elucid’Arte e outros cedidos pelo Município através da Biblioteca Pública Municipal, estão cobertos por um invólucro de plástico para proteção da chuva.
No final do ano, o balanço de trocas e partilhas de obras literárias determinará a continuidade do projeto. “Esperemos que tenha o dom de promover hábitos de leitura na cidade e, sobretudo, que dê a oportunidade a todos, sem exceção, de tomaram contacto com a literatura”, aponta Rui Pereira.
“Having to read footnotes resembles having to go downstairs to answer the door while in the midst of making love”. Noel Coward
Para o sítio do costume :) que isto de arrumar livros nunca fica acabado, dá azo a algumas descobertas e, deixa uma pessoa completamente, absolutamente... impraticável...
Acho que este vem a propósito.
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