E-books worden steeds goedkoper, fysieke boeken steeds duurder

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Elk kwartaal publiceert distributeur CB de Boekenbarometer met daarin de trends van het fysieke boek in Nederland. De cijfers uit de Boekenbarometer hebben betrekking op het algemene boek en laten wetenschappelijke en schoolboeken buiten beschouwing.

Opvallend is het contrast tussen de prijsontwikkeling van het fysieke boek en het e-book.

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25 Best Biographies: The Life Stories Every Man Should Read

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Nothing tells us more about how to be alive now than learning from those who have gone before. And nothing captures their triumphs and disasters better than a book. We invited 25 writers to recommend a biography they love. Here are their picks of 25 lives well lived, 25 lives well told. Read them. Learn from them. Return to them.

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Oersetting Slauerhoff troch Eeltsje Hettinga: Yoeng Poe Tsjoeng

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Yn de bondel Young Poe Tsoeng (1930) sette Slauerhoff fan ferskillende Sineeske dichters poëzy út it Frânsk, Dútsk en Ingelsk oer. Dêrnjonken brocht er by wize fan chinoisery in grut tal gedichten byinoar dy’t mei it Sineeske libben en lânskip fan dwaan hawwe. De wenstige sidene gewaden, glânzgjende moannen en bloeiende roazen, dêr’t it yn de Sineeske poëzy faak fan optilt, giet er lykwols út ’e wei. Yn de samling Young Poe Tsjoeng, in namme dy’t letterlik ‘fan gjin nut’ betsjut, jout Slauerhoff de foarkar oan de bitterens en mankelikens fan it bestean sels. Oare kear mear.

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Hear Beowulf Read In the Original Old English: How Many Words Do You Recognize?

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I was as surprised as most people are when I first heard the ancient language known as Old English. It’s nothing like Shakespeare, nor even Chaucer, who wrote in a late Middle English that sounds strange enough to modern ears. Old English, the English of Beowulf, is almost a foreign tongue; close kin to German, with Latin, Norse, and Celtic influence.

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