Welcome to the Neglected Books page, edited and mostly written by Brad Bigelow. Here you’ll find articles and lists with thousands of books that have been neglected, overlooked, forgotten, or stranded by changing tides in critical or popular taste.
The Numismatic Bibliomania Society (NBS) is an educational association founded in 1979 to support and promote the use and collecting of numismatic literature. Numismatic literature includes books, periodicals, catalogs and other written or printed material relating to coins, medals, tokens, or paper money, ancient or modern, U.S. or worldwide.
At a time when scientific data on rising sea levels, melting ice, and ocean acidification are widely known, my role is not to repeat these figures, but to embody them, to bring them to life, to make them heard. Because understanding is no longer enough — one must feel in order to act.
This piece is an invitation to listen to a world in change. An active, committed listening that may, I hope, open the way to other narratives, to other possibilities.
People around the world recorded the sounds of their forests, so you can escape into nature, and unwind wherever you are. Take a breath and soak in the forest sounds as they breathe with life and beauty!
Grimmory is a self-hosted library management system for ebooks, comics, and audiobooks. Your books and data stay on your server, with no subscription fees or cloud dependency.
My name is Daniel Connell. I prototype and develop basic technologies which anyone can make using recycled materials and simple tools.
The aim is for everyone everywhere to be able to build and maintain their own infrastructure; producing their own energy, food, clean water, communications, and anything else they need.
All designs are open source and license free for any purpose, and full construction tutorials and how-tos are available here.
The directive creates several concrete obligations. Manufacturers of covered products, including mobile phones, tablets, washing machines, refrigerators, vacuum cleaners, electronic displays, and servers, must offer repair services at reasonable prices and within a reasonable timeframe, even after the original warranty period expires. They must supply spare parts and repair tools to independent repair shops and consumers at non-deterrent prices. They must publish indicative repair costs on publicly accessible websites. And when a consumer chooses repair over replacement within the warranty period, the legal guarantee is extended by 12 months from the date the repair is completed.
From community centers, support groups, and feminist bookstores to drag bars, gay discos, and one of the last lesbian bars in the country, Nashville has a diverse LGBTQ history—reaching all the way back to the Civil War! Today we’ll explore all of these things, and meet some of the trailblazers who opened Nashville’s first gay bars, organized the first Pride gatherings, and even affected national policy. Welcome to the Nashville Sites LGBTQ History Tour!
A collection of small, low stakes and low effort tools.
No logins, no registration, no data collection. I can't believe I have to say that. Long live the handmade web.
Super useful: several types of PDF imposers for formatting zines, including single-page minizines and booklets; background remover for images; QR code generator; color picker and palette generator. Plus tons more!
A note: creator used Claude Code to write/create the tools, idk how much
PAHAR is a free, open-access digital archive of Himalayan literature, maps, and photographs spanning two centuries of exploration and scholarship.
Enjoyment always requires attention. It’s just that some pleasures force your attention to them, and most don’t. Depending on these attention-forcing sources of pleasure leads to a preoccupation with the more intense ones, which tend to be sugary, intoxicating, mind-rotting, or costly in some other way.
A small town west of Montreal has decided to officially recognize trees as living beings with rights of their own, in what an environmental organization describes as a first in Quebec and Canada.
I thought it would be interesting to look at how hackers were portrayed in illustrations from print news media and magazines from the early to mid 1980s, when the stereotypes and tropes of hackerdom were less set in stone.
Going barefoot in the forest is a very sensuous and a pleasurable experience. For some of us it is almost a mystical experience. I know that I dreamt of it long before I ever durst try it. It is also an experience that brings into question our entire relationship with nature in a way that disturbs and challenges our ideas about ourselves as civilised beings. It is an experience that I have long wanted to see explored properly in print.
There are parallels between the cultural and political climate of the 1970s and current global conditions. However, we feel that an important difference is in the absence of a massive counter-cultural movement for change. We face many of the same problems: large-scale ideological wars, energy crises, environmental devastation, destructive global capitalism and more. The hopeful quality of these books encourages us in developing a movement of our own, in the form of how-to manuals with the explicit intent of building a new society of optimistic resistance.
Public Collectors is founded upon the concern that there are many types of cultural artifacts that public libraries, museums and other institutions and archives either do not collect or do not make freely accessible. Public Collectors asks individuals that have had the luxury to amass, organize, and inventory these materials to help reverse this lack by making their collections public.
Basically a collection of other people's collections of stuff that isn't normally collected or can't be shown off easily. Examples: Childhood Graffiti From Antique Sources; Fake Parking Tickets; People Documenting Anti-War Protesters; Bibles Stolen From Hotels.
The point of the webring is to start a community of web curators. We don't just to link to any old websites, we link to sites we think are good. Sites we love, sites we use, sites that are true treasures. Unearthing these gems from the muck of the wider internet and sharing them with others adds real value to the world.
The concept is simple.... Follow any of the tag accounts, which corresponds to a hashtag, and you will get copies of posts as they appear around the fediverse, straight to your own timeline.
Instead of random Latin filler text, get random Carl Sagan filler text!
All four lawyers involved either admitted to directly using AI or admitted to rubber stamping legal briefs that had been prepared with AI without reviewing them. Aycock wrote that at a hearing in January, “each of the attorneys expressed embarrassment and apologized to the court.” One of the lawyers said they used an AI tool to do legal research; another, Kathleen Wilson, admitted to using an AI tool called First Drafts to write the entire briefing. The two other attorneys said they did not review the briefs in question and submitted them to the court.