RE: LeoThread 2025-04-04 12:54

[adambarratt]

📚 Leo Book Club 🦁

#threadcast 74
Fri 04-Apr-25

ℹ️ This is the #bookcast where we chat all things #books

💬 Talk about what you've read, what you'd like to read and discuss the world of literature!

• Leave reviews and recommendations
• Post pics, articles, quotes, news, videos and anything else related to books
• Tag #leobooks and join the LeoBooks community

Happy reading! 📖

Comments

[adambarratt]

Happy Friday, and welcome to today's BookCast! Share all your book and reading chit-chat right here...

[adambarratt]

Previous edition:

https://inleo.io/threads/view/adambarratt/re-leothreads-36n3b7ns2

[adambarratt]

Everything I read in March & April's TBR 📚 | Francesca’s Books

!summarize

[adambarratt]

A mini reading vlog 🫧 poetry, bookclub picks, days at home | Emmie

!summarize

[adambarratt]

7 Books Everyone Should Read | Bullet Journal

!summarize

[adambarratt]

99% of people don't know these 10 books | struthless

!summarize

[adambarratt]

‘Meta has stolen books’: authors to protest in London against AI trained using ‘shadow library’

Writers will gather at the Facebook owner’s King’s Cross office in opposition to its use of the LibGen database to train its AI models

Article via The Guardian

[adambarratt]

Can Male Authors Publish Books Under Female Names?

The magazine's Ethicist columnist on what is acceptable when trying to increase book sales.

Article via New York Times

[adambarratt]

The best new science fiction books of April 2025

From robot rights to ageing and climate change, this month's science fiction squares up to the big topics, with new titles from authors...

Article via New Scientist

[adambarratt]

Why the Romans Stopped Reading Books

Nobody reads books anymore. Whether or not that notion strikes you as true, you’ve probably heard it expressed fairly often in recent decades — just as you might have had you lived in the Roman Empire of late antiquity. During that time, as ancient-history YouTuber Garrett Ryan explains in the new Told in Stone video above, the “book trade declined with the educated elite that had supported it.

The copying of secular texts slowed, and finally ceased. The books in Roman libraries, public and private, crumbled on their shelves. Only a small contingent of survivors found their way into monasteries.” As went the reading culture of the empire, so went the empire itself.

Article via Open Culture

[adambarratt]

Dive back into Kindle book series with the new 'Recaps' feature now available in the US

For fans of book series, recalling plots and characters after a long reading break or a wait between new releases can be a challenge.

Article via AboutAmazon

[adambarratt]

Amazon Kindle’s new feature uses AI to generate recaps for books in a series

Amazon is introducing a new “Recaps” feature for Kindle users to help them recall plot points and character arcs before picking up the latest book in a series. While the company’s press release for the new feature doesn’t mention AI, Amazon confirmed to TechCrunch that recaps are AI-generated.

Article via TechCrunch

[adambarratt]

The Bestselling Books of the Week, According to All the Lists

USA Today, Publishers Weekly, NYT, Amazon, and Indie Booksellers all have their own bestseller lists. Here are the combined results.

Article via Book Riot

[adambarratt]

📚 'Hyperfocus’ by Chris Bailey

📖 How to work less to achieve more.

🎞️ Productivity Game YouTube channel give their review…

!summarize

[adambarratt]

https://inleo.io/@adambarratt/bookbabble-68-hyperfocus-by-chris-bailey-bzf

[adambarratt]

📚 'The Obstacle is the Way’ by Ryan Holiday

📖 The art of turning adversity to your advantage.

🎞️ FightMediocrity YouTube channel give their review…

!summarize

[adambarratt]

https://inleo.io/@adambarratt/bookbabble-69-the-obstacle-is-the-way-by-ryan-holiday-8fk

[adambarratt]

📚 'Extreme Ownership’ by Jocko Willink & Leif Babin

📖 How Navy SEALs lead and win, and taking complete responsibility for your life.

🎞️ Wisdom for Life YouTube channel give their review…

!summarize

[adambarratt]

https://inleo.io/@adambarratt/bookbabble-70-extreme-ownership-by-jocko-willink-leif-babin-dqu

[adambarratt]

12 underrated FANTASY books you need to read | Jaime Fok

!summarize

[adambarratt]

20 Books for Your 20s You MUST READ! | Book Recommendations 2023 | Warikoo Hindi

!summarize

[adambarratt]

Let's pick some BANGERS! (My April TBR List) | Paperback Journeys

!summarize

[adambarratt]

The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch...

!summarize

[adambarratt]

https://inleo.io/@adambarratt/bookbabble-72-the-last-lecture-by-randy-pausch-gsx

[adambarratt]

The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom...

!summarize

[adambarratt]

https://inleo.io/@adambarratt/bookbabble-73-the-five-people-you-meet-in-heaven-by-mitch-albom-gjt

[adambarratt]

Four Thousand Weeks, by Oliver Burkeman

!summarize

[adambarratt]

https://inleo.io/@adambarratt/bookbabble-74-four-thousand-weeks-by-oliver-burkeman-7pj

[adambarratt]

The Art of Taking Action, by Gregg Krech

!summarize

[adambarratt]

https://inleo.io/@adambarratt/bookbabble-75-the-art-of-taking-action-by-gregg-krech-khn

[adambarratt]

Anthony Horowitz: ‘I’m too nervous to reread The Lord of the Rings – it might reveal how jaded I’ve become’

The Alex Rider author on being put off Dickens for a decade, why he reads poetry in the mornings, and how reading Sherlock Holmes made him want to be a crime writer

Article via The Guardian

[adambarratt]

The Best Reviewed Books of the Week Book Marks

David Szalay's Flesh, Elaine Pagels' Miracles and Wonder, and Joe Dunthorne's Children of Radium all feature among the best reviewed books...

Article via Book Marks

[adambarratt]

The best new crime and thriller books to read in April 2025

14 unputdownable books that will keep you reading into the night.

Article via The i Paper

[adambarratt]

STOP Reading Self Help Books, Read THESE Instead | Stephen Petro

!summarize

[adambarratt]

26 Books that turned me into a Reader 📚 tier ranked | phil got books

!summarize