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Welcome @dylanoa4! Dylan is a writer and senior editor at Infinite Books, an author-first publishing house launching in 2025. He has agreed to do an AMA for the /books channel. Reply with your questions (please make sure to tag him so he can easily find them)

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Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue —Rainer Maria Rilke Reading letters to a young poet by Maria rilke and loving it.

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just finished Neuromancer, can highly recommend to ride the cyberspace. one of the earliest and most influential books in the cyberpunk genre published in 1984 =pre-Internet wtf my favorite quote > His mouth filled with an aching taste of blue. His eyes were eggs of unstable crystal, vibrating with a frequency whose name was rain and the sounds of trains, suddenly sprouting a humming forest of hair-fine spines. The spines split, bisected, split again, exponential growth under the dome of the Tessier-Ashpool ice

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What are you reading this weekend?

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If you or anyone else you love is concerned about AI taking jobs, I would recommend reading the History of Fortran

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Just read this book over the past couple of days as Trump and Musk begin implementing their own sick vision of authoritarianism in parallel. Terrifying stuff.

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The most profound paragraph in all of C. S. Lewis, at least to me

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I just stumbled upon my teenage books, the ones that shaped my life as an artist a little.

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I can’t be the only one having access to these,dive in.

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reading auto/biographies makes you feel like you're playing an RPG.

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Just finished the glass cage by Nicholas carr and can't get over how relevant this is. Plus he quotes Hannah Arendt which validates me further as someone who read her mammoth book as a project recently. 🫡 Also Shoutout @chukwukaosakwe who's a big advocate of this book.

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In case you missed my fave books of the year and want to help me get that Warpcast Reward UBI to put toward reading and sharing more books ;-)

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@markmywords.eth

It's a book club on Base! Read that again. A book club. On @base. At the risk of being reactionary, that is, how do you say? Based? Mint now if you really love books. https://pods.media/thinking-on-paper/dreams-songs-and-fantasies-how-documents-took-over-the-world-nexus-yuval-noah-harari-chapter-3

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I might have to send them a copy of "Number Go Up"

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peak guy-spends-a-year-doing-something book but ACTUALLY delivers starts as an investigation into memory champions then morphs into a quest to become one especially interesting take on how Fitts' three stages of learning (cognitive → associative → autonomous) apply to literally everything from typing to remembering shakespeare

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