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«Todas las imágenes realizadas por IA se parecen bastante, con un dibujo fotorrealista con gente anodina y que responde a cánones de belleza estrictos: narices pequeñas, pómulos altos, cuellos imposiblemente largos y los ojos son de dos personas distintas» explica el ilustrador David López a El País
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#generativeAI #books #editorial

"Il y a aujourd'hui trois cent quarante-huit ans six mois et dix-neuf jours que les parisiens s'éveillèrent au bruit de toutes les clochés sonnant à grande volée dans la triple enceinte de la Cité, de l'Université et de la Ville."

#OTD in 1831.

Victor Hugo's historical romantic Gothic novel Notre-Dame de Paris, known in English as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, is published by Gosselin in Paris.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunc

Notre-Dame de Paris at PG:
gutenberg.org/ebooks/2610

"No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true."

#OTD in 1850.

Nathaniel Hawthorne's historical novel The Scarlet Letter is published by William Ticknor and James T. Fields in Boston, Massachusetts, where it is set. It sells 2,500 copies in ten days.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scar

The Scarlett Letter at PG:
gutenberg.org/ebooks/33

Is there somewhere to buy ebooks that supports local book stores? I buy print books from Bookshop.org and my audiobooks from Libro.fm, but don't know where to go for ebooks. I'd like it to be DRM-free so I don't lose it when I'm on "unsupported devices".

Help me pick my next read.

Or dont.

IDGAF.

I gave up on Fortune Falls because book 1 was communalist survivalism & book 2 is " oh btw yall get Super Soldier Serum " out of literally nowhere.

So yeah, a paradigm shift of that magnitude is jumping the shark for me.

So with that in mind..what is next?

#OTD in 1773.

Oliver Goldsmith's comedy She Stoops to Conquer is performed for the first time, at the Covent Garden Theatre in London.

Initially the play was titled Mistakes of a Night and the events within the play take place in one long night. In 1778, John O'Keeffe wrote a loose sequel, Tony Lumpkin in Town.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/She_Stoo

She Stoops to Conquer; Or, The Mistakes of a Night at PG:
gutenberg.org/ebooks/383