A look at some of the most beautiful and unusual examples from the first 100 years of the "modern" book cover, since the rise of publishers' bindings circa 1820: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-art-of-book-covers-1820-1914

Ahí estaremos

Mid century Italian pencils. www.instagram.com/p/DTfjTIEDK4... Sold now, but please enjoy the packaging

Ayer | hoy Quizás habría valido la pena una explicación, una excusa, una aclaración. Algo como “titulamos lo contrario de lo que muestra la CASEN”. No sé, una idea loca

Qué situación más patética.

Esto no pinta bien

Muy

Happy Holidays to you all! www.instagram.com/p/DSpirZ7DGnq/ Have a safe, cosy & stationery filled Christmas. Thank you for all your support this year; for visiting, chatting, recommending, clicking, nerding & knolling. You make our day to day a lot of fun. — See you in 2026!

Nueva necesidad

Gracias, Jeanette Jara. Siempre supimos cómo venía la mano pero fuiste una excelente candidata.

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

Most offensive headline yet in the New York Times www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/d...

I'm so tired of measles. I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this. Show what measles looks like.

Situación actual:

- Este lunes no puede ser peor. - ...

35 years old and still going strong. Lego Santa, 1990. www.presentandcorrect.com/products/leg...

Qué buenísimo este capítulo de Caroe y Ugalde (citaron a mi ídola B. Ehrenreich, ya está).

every generation loves Rumours. it’s fucking Rumours

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Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Equal parts educational and just plain silly, the Chilean puppet show makes its first trip ever to the United States to turn the Tiny Desk into a playground.

Este anglicismo no lo había visto antes y considerando que el verbo alocar significa otra cosa en castellano (causar locura), creo que es mejor que no lo adoptemos

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Cómo se podría confiar de alguien que pone los libros así 🙄

Eso nomás. Vayan a libroschevengur.com ahora ya, que el domingo se acaba.

Reminder: At the start of his legal career, RFK Jr. failed the bar, was forced out as a D.A., and got arrested for heroin. Without the Kennedy name, that story ends there.

I think they should switch it up next year and design the line for the needs of night owls, not early birds. Oddly, I would happily stand in line at 2:30 in the morning, but not at five

Richard Brody reflects on why DVD owners shouldn’t throw away their collections just yet.

Escribí una cosa medio en broma y me pusieron un gato, win-win: palabrapublica.uchile.cl

Le tenía poquita fe a mi año, pero fue una linda sorpresa.

Oye, este viernes, si no nos ha llevado el Señor tras la lluvia, celebraremos la reedición de una de las mejores novelas chilenas del siglo tuentiuán: «El tarambana», de Yosa Vidal, ahora en Overol, con Yosa en carne y hueso! Librería La Inquieta, en el parque Bustamante, a las 7 pm.

The older I get, the more I understand why people live in the woods and talk to squirrels.

😒😒 Wordle 1,420 6/6 ⬜⬜🟩🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Incredibly detailed Map shawl, woollen embroidery, Kashmir, late 19th century, unknown makers (though probably involving both stages of work by male and female skilled artisans) #WomensArt

What's the magical green glow that dominates the sky in this pic of ESO’s La Silla Observatory? 🧐 Known as airglow, it's a faint light emitted by the Earth’s atmosphere and it is only visible in the darkest of places. What causes it? Find out here: www.eso.org/public/image... 🔭 🧪 📷 J. Pérez/ESO

This is high art

Plate, c.1928 by Grete Marks (1899-1990), ceramic artist and a Bauhaus student #womensart

Amazon is removing a feature that allows users to download purchased ebooks.

In case you were looking to backup your kindle books (since Amazon is removing the option to download them on the 26th), this script works quite well in minimizing the click-pain of downloading them individually: gist.github.com/spf13/1fee1e...

Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models. In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded only 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta). Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.

Algo rojo de mi galería con algo de verano

“It is simply this: do not tire, never lose interest, never grow indifferent...” -Tove Jansson (1914-2001)

As the kids say, I'm obsessed.

My very first post since reviving my Substack was about how DOGE was a fraud. Surprise! Elon Musk has just admitted that it won’t get anywhere close to its goals paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-fraudu...

De mis favoritos

Joven decadente, Ramón Casas Título alternativo: yo esperando el año nuevo

Si tienes alguna urgencia o pedido especial, escribe a [email protected] y haremos todo lo que esté a nuestro alcance para ayudarte.

Entrevista a Agnes Sinäi, especialista en decrecimiento y profesora en la Sciences Po: “Habría que instaurar normas sobre el tamaño de los coches” La periodista ambiental pide claridad sobre el futuro y que la responsabilidad recaiga en los gobernantes y no en los consumidores

Tarde de Cachureos digitales: tengo la mala costumbre de “subrayar” libros así y después no me acuerdo qué libro era…