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Why don't you publish *well formatted* PDFs or Postscripts of books. While ePub and others are great for reading on e-ink device, pdfs are great for printing them on paper.
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Instead of cutting down trees to generate paper, the best option is to preserve nature. Don't you agree?
"Nature can be trusted to work her own miracle in the heart of any man whose daily task keeps him alone among her sights, sounds and silences."
Coming through the swamp
Gene Stratton Porter was born #OTD in 1863. In 1917 Stratton-Porter urged legislative support for the conservation of Limberlost Swamp and other wetlands in Indiana. She was also a silent film-era producer who founded her own production company in 1924.
Books by Gene S. Porter at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/71
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Pierre de Fermat was born #OTD in 1601.
He is recognized for his discovery of an original method of finding the greatest and the smallest ordinates of curved lines, which is analogous to that of differential calculus, then unknown, and his research into number theory.
He is best known for his Fermat's principle for light propagation and his Fermat's Last Theorem in number theory, which he described in a note at the margin of a copy of Diophantus' Arithmetica.
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"The charm of your society, My Sparrow, lies in not knowing what will you say next - though one rapidly learns to fear the worst!"
Sylvester, or the Wicked Uncle, 1957
Georgette Heyer was born #OTD in 1902. Heyer essentially invented the historical romance & created the subgenre of the Regency romance. Despite her popularity and success, Heyer was largely ignored by critics other than Dorothy L. Sayers. via nostr:npub1kvnpp3m60derhwpqwc09zhk3ehk48tr6agc6dk9z2vggu9sga28qpxhm73
Books by Georgette Heyer at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/39614
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"The desert was held in a crazed communism by which Nature and the elements were for the free use of every known friendly person for his own purposes and no more."
Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1922)
Thomas Edward Lawrence was born #OTD in 1888.
He became renowned for his role in the Arab Revolt and the Sinai and Palestine Campaign against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. via nostr:npub1kvnpp3m60derhwpqwc09zhk3ehk48tr6agc6dk9z2vggu9sga28qpxhm73
Books about T.E. Lawrence at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/61428
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Macbethad mac Findláech died #OTD in 1057.
In Shakespeare's play, which is based mainly upon Raphael Holinshed's account and probably first performed in 1606, Macbeth is initially a valiant and loyal general to the elderly King Duncan. After being manipulated by Three Witches and his wife, Lady Macbeth, Macbeth murders Duncan and usurps the throne. via nostr:npub1kvnpp3m60derhwpqwc09zhk3ehk48tr6agc6dk9z2vggu9sga28qpxhm73
Books about Macbeth at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=macbeth&submit_search=Go%21
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Walter Crane was born #OTD in 1845.
He is considered to be the most influential, and among the most prolific, children's book creators of his generation, and one of the strongest contributors to the child's nursery motif that the genre of English children's illustrated literature would exhibit in its developmental stages in the later 19th century. via nostr:npub1kvnpp3m60derhwpqwc09zhk3ehk48tr6agc6dk9z2vggu9sga28qpxhm73
Books by or illustrated by Walter Crane at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/7195
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"Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little."
Giant (1952)
Edna Ferber was born #OTD in 1885.
Her novels include the Pulitzer Prize-winning So Big (1924), Show Boat (1926), Cimarron (1930), Giant (1952) and Ice Palace (1958), which received a film adaptation in 1960. via nostr:npub1kvnpp3m60derhwpqwc09zhk3ehk48tr6agc6dk9z2vggu9sga28qpxhm73
She wrote with compassion and curiosity about Midwestern American life. via @Britannica
Books by Edna Ferber at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/193
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Louise Colet was born #OTD in 1810.
A year after her arrival in Paris, in 1835, Louise Colet published her poems and was awarded the Académie française prize of two thousand francs. In 1846, she met Gustave Flaubert, a young unknown in the studio of painter James Pradier. He was 25, she 36. They became lovers. The affair did not last. via nostr:npub1kvnpp3m60derhwpqwc09zhk3ehk48tr6agc6dk9z2vggu9sga28qpxhm73
Boos by Louise Colet at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/9465
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Eugène Delacroix died #OTD in 1863. In 19th-century French painting, he is considered the leading exponent of Romanticism, whose vigor matches the scope of his career. He painted on canvas and decorated the walls and ceilings of public monuments. He also left engravings and lithographs, several articles written for magazines and a Journal published shortly after his death. nostr:npub1kvnpp3m60derhwpqwc09zhk3ehk48tr6agc6dk9z2vggu9sga28qpxhm73
Books by or illustrated by Eugène Delacroix at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=eugene+delacroix&submit_search=Go%21
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"I have an epic, not a dramatic nature. My disposition and my desires call for peace to spin my thread, for a steady rhythm in life and art."
Nobel Banquet Speech (10 December 1929)
Thomas Mann died #OTD in 1955. German novelist and essayist whose early novels—Buddenbrooks (1900), Der Tod in Venedig (1912; Death in Venice), and Der Zauberberg (1924; The Magic Mountain)—earned him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929.
Books by Thomas Mann at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/4200
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"The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab."
My story (ed. 1931)
Mary Roberts Rinehart was born #OTD in 1876. Rinehart published her first mystery novel The Circular Staircase in 1908, which introduced the "had I but known" narrative style. via nostr:npub1kvnpp3m60derhwpqwc09zhk3ehk48tr6agc6dk9z2vggu9sga28qpxhm73
Books by Mary Roberts Rinehart at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/183
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Nicolas Malebranche was born #OTD in 1638.
Although better known for his philosophical work, Malebranche made some notable contributions to physics, working within a broadly Cartesian framework but nevertheless prepared to depart from Descartes where necessary. In addition, Malebranche wrote on the laws of motion, a topic he discussed extensively with Leibniz. via nostr:npub1kvnpp3m60derhwpqwc09zhk3ehk48tr6agc6dk9z2vggu9sga28qpxhm73
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Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro died #OTD in 1925.
He is most famous as the discoverer of tensor calculus which then became the "lingua franca" of the subsequent theory of Albert Einstein's general relativity, as is shown in a letter written by Albert Einstein to Ricci-Curbastro's nephew. via nostr:npub1kvnpp3m60derhwpqwc09zhk3ehk48tr6agc6dk9z2vggu9sga28qpxhm73
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"Still may syllabes jar with time,
Still may reason war with rhyme,
Resting never!"
A Fit of Rhyme Against Rhyme
Ben Jonson died #OTD in 1637. Apart from two tragedies, Sejanus and Catiline, Jonson's work for the public theatres was in comedy. The comedies of his middle career are for the most part city comedy. His late plays exhibit signs of an accommodation with the romantic tendencies of Elizabethan comedy.
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Books by Ben Jonson at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1269
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