Friday, 12 January 2024
Just a note to say that I’m now very close to moving this newsletter to my own website, and to suggest that you might take a look. The next issue of Through the Biblioscope will be published in the new location, and you should all get an email (through the Sender.net service) when it is published, in about a week’s time. I’ll also put out one last note here as a reminder.
The new location is simply https://biblioscope.org . Please check it out. If you see any problems (it’s still a work in progress), please let me know at the email shown on that site (scroll down a little if you don’t see it).
I’m enjoying building the new website, which is all pure HTML and CSS. No ads, no pop-ups, no nagging about subscriptions.1 Not even any Wordpress or similar, it’s all just hand-crafted. I’m really liking the freedom of being able to make things look and work exactly as I want them to look.
Most importantly, the new site will enable me to include useful indexes to all of my existing reviews, by book title or by author. So if you are interested in what I have to say about a particular book, it’s easy to look it up and go straight to the review I published. So far, there are 175 reviews!
— David
P.S. Even though I’m leaving Substack, and the founders have been rightly criticised for being prepared to host the ultra-right-wing material they did, I must still thank them for setting up Substack and providing an excellent platform for writers to get started on. And they do seem to be responding to the criticisms, at least in part.
But if I know that there’s a seed of evil at the core of an otherwise wonderful place, then I have to be one of the ones who walk away from Omelas.
Although there is a link at the bottom of the home page to a form for new subscribers.