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phil
@phil
Welcome @amelie! Alexandria Labs (alexandriabooks.com) builds infrastructure for authors and publishers to release ownable, un-bannable, un-censorable e-books with web3. She has agreed to do an AMA for the /books channel. Reply with your questions (please make sure to tag her so she can easily find them)
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bloke
@cloaked-bloke
cool, @amelie what inspired you to found AlexandriaLabs? do you have a favorite genre?
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amelielasker.eth
@amelie
I love these questions š I was inspired to found Alexandria back in late 2021/early 2022 when I started learning about NFTs. My background is as a writer and I saw so many tools being made for visual and music NFTs, as well as shorter form writing/blogging, I wanted something for e-books. I started imagining a futuristic Library of Alexandria on the next internet powered by web3. For our team we came up with identities as the Muses of Alexandria, returned to Earth in the modern day to usher us into the digital era. šļø That's why I call myself Muse of Tragedy in my bios sometimes! I think my favorite genre changes over time, but right now I'm enjoying what I call "literary sci fi" (stuff like Helen Phillips's Hum more recently, and classics like Ray Bradbury and Ursula K. Le Guin!). Do you have a favorite genre?
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bloke
@cloaked-bloke
having more thoughts as I think about platforms, but donāt want to take more time. here ye: - farcaster/mastadon/arena/etc integration - reading āInevitableā and have questions; would want to post in a book specific place. - tips - as you interact with authors or ask questions, I can tip the authors for their interactionā¦ Or pay for interaction. maybe therapy platform with that model lol.. t2 does this?? - other forms of media consumption - always wondering how user or multiple people can be more involved in stories like DnD style books created by multiple actors in a community. hmm unfeasible stuff is springing as well. crypto is the only way. i feel like weāre so far off from ideal atm but am very excited for the future
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bloke
@cloaked-bloke
ah, that is fun. Library of Alexandria .. 2.0. I can see it favorite genre seems to be an impossible question, and I am in a rut not reading at all anyway-thought youād be good candidate for recommend, but iāll have to try mr konrath out lol in 2024 I noticed myself unable to read fiction-dystopian-or even realism. I feel enough dystopian and cynicism anytime I scroll a feed. Am an optimist, and because slow reader, a book is a huge commitment for me. 2024 was a balance of biography success stories Making it So Be Useful Team of Rivals and psychology book recommendations from others: Levels of Energy Map of Consciousness Escape from Freedom Sovereign Individual Who moved the cheese? the biographies reinvigorated my energy like no other, while the psych was more for āresearch purposesā. also patrick stewart has me watching plays nowā¦.. hmm Maybe thatās it! I will read scripts!?!?
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