No. 5 | 25 June 2017
About SteemBookLoversMag
- We love diversity. Steemit blog posts should not be only limited to cypto, and tech, and money.
- We do most of our reading on the Internet. But there are some of us who never forget the books, the ancient and incredible media of knowledge, and pleasure.
- This is an experimental Steemit blogposts digest for everything about books.
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The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb
Highly improbable events, Taleb has coined as "black swans," that cannot and will not be predict happen, some happen rarely while others occur more frequently, and some are positive others are negative. Knowing that these events are possible lessens their negative effects on us and lets us use the positive ones. Awareness of their existence is sometimes enough to turn a black swan into a gray swan. read more......
Book review : Albert Camus - The stranger
Earlier I was responding to
's post Your favorite quote and this gave me the idea to do a review of one of my favorite book written by my favorite author : Albert Camus.
When Gallimard published "L'étranger"/"The stranger" in 1942, Albert Camus was not yet thirty years old. The critic of the time welcomes this short novel, the first of the tetralogy "The cycle of the absurd", without enthusiasm and yet seventy years later this book is by far the best known of the Nobel of literature. read more......
Formatting Books and Print Material
I have been translating books into Persian since 1995. Most of the time, I do all the formatting for my books. So, this is an important topic for me. I’d like to share with you some insights about how to prepare and format books in here. read more......
DO "EVIL BOOKS" REALLY EXIST?
Someone once said to me "dont read that book, its evil", referring to a book that shall remain nameless, but had symbols on the front that triggered this sheeps fear. He didnt recognize them, so of course they were evil.
Shit, I think that the McDonalds logo is evil as well as MTV and the Facebook thumb, and I have good fucking reason; not ignorance. If I saw those logos on a book cover, I wouldnt touch it. read more......
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