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Samuel Pepys was an important public official in 17th Century London, who helped to run the English navy and reported to the King. He also kept a secret diary where he was surprisingly honest about his personal life between 1660 - 1669.

You can follow the diary in real time (currently 1668) at:

➡️ @samuelpepys

The maintainer's website is at https://www.pepysdiary.com

#SamuelPepys #History #Books #London #England #EnglishHistory #17thCentury #1600s #Diary #Diaries #LiveTooting #RoyalNavy

Spearhafoc is a comic book creator currently focusing on pulp interpretations of classic characters from history and literature. You can follow at:

➡️ @Spearhafoc

Spearhafoc's website is at https://spearhafoc.tumblr.com/post/175757223644/my-links-and-info

#Spearhafoc #Art #MastoArt #Artist #Comics #ComicBook #WebComic #WebComics #GraphicNovel #GraphicNovels #Books #Illustration #Pulp

Libreture promotes DRM-free eBooks and digital comics by providing services like online storage, reading lists, a DRM-free bookshop directory and more.

You can follow at:

➡️ @libreture

Official site is at https://libreture.com

DRM-free means you get to keep books you buy, even if the bookshop closes down.

DRM books disappear forever when stores close down (for example: https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a27021744/microsoft-ebook-store-shutdown/).

#eBooks #Books #DigitalBooks #eComics #Comics #DigitalComics #Reading #DRMfree #eReaders

Inventaire is a free open source platform for cataloguing and sharing physical books, with its own database of titles built upon Wikidata.

You can follow the project at:

@inventaire

The website is at https://inventaire.io

#Inventaire #Books #Authors #Reading #Libraries #Sharing #BookSharing #WikiData #FLOSS #FOSS #Libre

Readlebee is a planned free open source alternative to Amazon's Goodreads, and is currently under development:

@Readlebee

Developers can contribute to Readlebee at:
https://gitlab.com/Alamantus/Readlebee

Non-developers can contribute to Readlebee by adding to the Inventaire open database of books (which Readlebee uses):
https://wiki.inventaire.io/wiki/How-to-contribute

#ReadleBee #Goodreads #Books #Book #Alternatives #FLOSS #FOSS