Scratch Pad: Rouse, Bibliophilia, Dinkus

At the end of each week, I usually collate a lightly edited collection of recent comments I’ve made on social media, which I think of as my public scratch pad. I tag on what books I may have finished reading. Knowing I’ll revisit my social media posts serves, I’ve found, as a positive and mellowing influence on my online activity. Some items show up on disquiet.com before this post, in which case I don’t repeat them. I mostly hang out on Mastodon (at post.lurk.org/@disquiet), and I’m also trying out a few others. And I generally take weekends off social media. ▰ I got the new China Miéville novel, The Rouse, in hardback. I’m wondering how the ebook distinguishes between the alternating color backgrounds of the pages, and the occasional typographical treatments. The audiobook appears to have two if not three narrators. (It’s also almost 1,250 pages long.) ▰ Sentence I found myself writing this morning: “I didn’t buy much, just six books in an ongoing series.” ▰ This is the dinkus that…