No. Not. Nope. Negative. Rational.

Every so often I catch a glimpse of the book drama going on over on the Insta/Threads sphere of the Internet, and it makes me so glad I’m considered too Tumblrina to sit at their tables.

“But if people read it for free they might like it want to buy the rest of my work!”

I am staring directly into the camera like I’m on the Office in Librarian. Libraries are literally an author’s best friend. We get books to people they never would have known about otherwise, & create Fans out of disinterested bystanders. And! Libraries are often paying MORE for a book than the average user, at least for digital editions, because it is expected that the library will lend it to more people, so theoretically we need to pay more to compensate the authors! (This is not I think how it works in practice, it more often just benefits the digital lending company instead of the actual author but. Greed is ever thus). Also, in some countries (sadly not the US, boo hiss) authors get paid for every checkout of a book. So, you can literally get royalties on those “free” books. (Also, they’re not free, they’re paid for with tax dollars for the good of everyone). How some fool can think temporary freeness on Amazon Kindle is superior to libraries I cannot fathom. Like, how does this person even manage to function in the real world?

#I thought if you were self pubed#you basically couldn't get into the library#sounds like being mad at a club#that won't let them in

This works best if you keep windows closed.

theyve been doing a bunch of studies on this during the pandemic and this design is best! 4 filters and a shroud to optimize flow rate.

Species Update: Koala

the most chill coworker you’ll ever have in your entire life looks like this and is named something like hannah or gabby or molly and drives a beat up white van with korn cds scattered on the passenger seat and has duct tape holding At Least One Car Part on for dear life