“In reading, friendship is restored immediately to its original purity. With books there is no forced sociability. If we pass the evening with those friends—books—it’s because we really want to. When we leave them, we do so with regret and, when we have left them, there are none of those thoughts that spoil friendship: “What did they think of us?”—“Did we make a mistake and say something tactless?”—“Did they like us?”—nor is there the anxiety of being forgotten because of displacement by someone else. All such agitating thoughts expire as we enter the pure and calm friendship of reading.”
Proust
"In reality, every reader is, while reading, the reader of his own self."
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Welcome to Proust!
Proust is built using an open-source community-maintained software project called BookWyrm. BookWyrm is itself built on a protocol called ActivityPub, meaning it is 'federated'.
It decentralises the internet, resists platform capitalism, and gives us back our internet! Here is a simple explanation.
In the Eye of the Wild is Proust's most beloved book, with an average rating of 5.0 out of 5.
More Proust users want to read Priestdaddy than any other book.
Track your reading, talk about books, write reviews, and discover what to read next without stinky algorithms. Always ad-free, anti-corporate, and community-oriented, BookWyrm is human-scale software, designed to stay small and personal. If you have feature requests, bug reports, or grand dreams, you can also get involved with BookWyrm directly. Also donate! If you can! :)
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