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What have you been reading today? Everything counts, from a novel-length fic to the labels on your washing!

Snippets of stuff

Date: 2015-04-27 01:43 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] quoththeravyn
Got to browsing in my work in progress folder, looking for something in particular. For years now I've been writing prompts for a half hour every Sunday, and my there's stuff in here... funky alternate universes for a story that's already full of funky alternate universe stuff.

Date: 2015-04-27 08:37 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] thamesynne
Most notably: a personal history of various ancient computers, particularly the English Electric KDF9, by Bill Findlay. I'm always struck by how far ahead of the curve the British have always been with computer architecture, yet how little we've capitalised on it.

Date: 2015-04-28 12:51 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] thamesynne
Ooh, I'll have to look out for that. And that reminds me, in turn, of two more books - Simon Lavington's "Early British Computers", which I first read when I was still at school and found it in my local library, although it's a little on the perfunctorily technical side; and Tracy Kidder's "The Soul of a New Machine", which described the same kind of temporary unification of creative talent, and similarly made me feel sad when it fell apart.

Date: 2015-04-27 11:01 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] weaverbird
The everyday baseline stuff (Twitter, LJ, DW, 5 min of bedtime reading) plus a review of the 3-wheel Morgan car (technically a motorcycle, apparently), browsed snippets of various novels on Project Gutenberg, skimmed a couple Guardian articles.

Date: 2015-04-27 07:38 pm (UTC)
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These daily posts have made me realize the same thing - I read many things on a daily basis almost without registering it, if you see what I mean.

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