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learninglifer

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I'm always looking to learn new things.

Non-binary #nonbinary

Academic background:

BA in Religious Studies (focus on Nichiren Buddhism)
Minor in Classics (Latin)
Graduate degree in Professional Writing (think editing)

Interests:
Humanities, Philosophy, Religious Studies, History, Psychology, Sociology, Interdisciplinary findings, Non-fiction books

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@friesen5000@mstdn.ca avatar friesen5000 , to bookstodon group

Is there an app/site/network that facilitates lending books from one's personal library? Or formal libraries that act as the 'front end' of such a system - sort of like an interlibrary loan system that includes personal libraries of local residents? Like 3rd party sellers on a store's website, except better.

As a bibliophile I see both promise and peril with such a system (you did what to my book?!) but it seems like something that could be done.

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learninglifer ,
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@friesen5000 bookstodon@a.gup.pe icon bookstodon group TinyCat I think can do that (it's basically a library catalog for small libraries) https://www.librarycat.org/. It can have a cost, generally under $20 per month. If you like the idea but not the cost, TinyCat is built on LibraryThing. My first thought was actually LibraryThing (which is free) and some quick looking into that brought up TinyCat as an option. I've had an account at LT for forever and still have no idea what a lot of its capabilities are.

@learninglifer@hcommons.social avatar learninglifer , to lgbtqia group

For me, will be "The Year of the Marginalized." (Or the Margins.)

It won't be perfect, but essentially I'm going for 80% of the media I consume is written / directed / created by or starring people from marginalized populations. Music is impacted too, though likely by creating marginalized-centric playlists and listening to those.

If the name seems familiar, it echoes 1992 in the US after the election which was called "The Year of the Woman."

I'm definitely up for suggestions, though of course no guarantees.

The contrast--the majority--is to me for purposes of this, white, straight, male, US or England since they have an inordinate amount of influence over everything. And marginalized is basically everyone else. (FYI, I am white, male-presenting and in the US.)

To be clear, it's not to remove the majority, just to find more balance in what I consume.

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