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  Utagawa Hiroshige, Naruto Whirlpool, Awa Province, from the series Views of Famous Places in the Sixty-Odd Provinces, 1853

have you ever loaned a book and not got it back?

Image: Wayne Thiebaud. Pie Counter, 1963. Oil on canvas. © Whitney Museum of American Art / Licensed by Scala / Art Resource, NY

Oil on canvas , 120 x 150 cm.

Star Wars Action Fleet by Ralph McQuarrie (Galoob Toys, 1996)

from a scrapbook of victorian ephemera, sadie e. field, 1904.

Thanksgiving Greetings. Postmarked November 1912

All are free, open source and cross-platform. None use AI.

ITS WORTH THE LEARNING CURVE

It’s okay to enjoy language-learning without ever becoming fluent, or even conversational. It’s okay to like playing guitar even if you only know a few clumsy songs. You can read books and never finish them, bowl without ever scoring even halfway to perfect. We’re here to explore and play, and we cannot do that if we’re chasing perfection in everything we do.

My cartoon for this week’s @guardian books

THAT IS WHY YOU MUST MAKE ZINES!

Art by James Cameron

UFO Photograph ~ Switzerland (1975) by Billy Meier ~ The flying saucer that would later hang in Fox Mulder’s office

From the loss of Hoopla, databases, and Wi-Fi hotspots to the closing of rural branches, these stories document the devastating effect of the Trump administration’s policy decisions on public and school libraries across the country.