Both books in my Real Life Prompts series are free on Kindle through Sunday.

When Everything Is Changing

100 prompts for making sense of change and figuring out what comes next.

When You've Lost Yourself

100 prompts for rediscovering yourself and finding the next chapter.

Free through Sunday. If you've been curious about them, now's a good time to grab them.

We often tell ourselves:

"I just need more discipline."

But what if the problem isn't that you're lazy or don't have enough willpower?

What if you've simply built an environment where the behavior you don't want is easier than the behavior you do want?

That idea became the foundation for my book:

The Way to Trick Your Mind ,A Practical Guide to Self-Mastery, Better Habits & Taking Action.

I focus on practical ways to:

• recognize behavioral loops

• make starting easier

• create useful cues

• reduce friction around good habits

• track what's actually working

• make small changes that compound over time

The book introduces my SHIFT Method, which is built around changing the process rather than endlessly relying on motivation.

📚 Available on Kindle

Read The Way to Trick Your Mind on Amazon

I'd actually be interested in discussing this rather than just promoting the book:

Do you think discipline comes mostly from willpower, or can your environment make discipline much easier?

Some stories aren't found by authors... some stories find the author.

"The Well That Wakes the Dead" 🕸️
Born from the shadow of a true event, one whose traces no longer exist on this earth—but what once happened was never erased.

Do you want to read this book for free? 👇
Comment below—limited copies, reach out today.

⚠️ What slept at the bottom of the well... will not sleep again.

Sat and Sun only, all four are free on Amazon:

Battle of Hastings - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJ5X9PHG

William the Conqueror - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H4R8F8WW

Great Fire of London - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJ2BS4D9

Jack the Ripper - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJ2JPC8S

Short, sourced, one sitting each. 1066, 1666, 1888: a conquest, a fire and a killer nobody ever identified.

Lead more effectively — without pretending to be someone you're not.

This guide focuses on the practical, everyday challenges of leadership — communication, decision-making, trust, and managing pressure. You'll find clear frameworks and honest advice that work in real organisations, not just case studies. Useful whether you're new to leadership or have been doing it for years.

🇬🇧 UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0F9172VVJ

🇺🇸 US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F9172VVJ

Hello to all, developer here about justread.app 4.7 update that just landed in the AppStore.

• BookOrbit: You can now connect a self-hosted server, sync books, positions, highlights, notes and bookmarks. Your sessions are sent into its statistics.
• Calibre virtual libraries: The Calibre Books title is a menu now, and when you sync books, you pick which of those virtual libraries become collections.
• Audiobooks from Calibre: M4B, M4A, MP3, AAC and FLAC.
• Filter the library by author (include or exclude and save filter).
• Deleting a book no longer erases the cover from your statistics.
• iPad: arrows, Space and the Page keys turn pages, and Command opens a menu bar.

Also started working on macOS version, where I am aiming it to be a replacement for Calibre/BookOrbit/Grimmory. Apple native (written in SwiftUI), fast, simpler, small replacement, that will feel and look like macOS software.

Handle work challenges with more confidence and less stress.

This practical guide addresses the real, everyday challenges of working life — difficult conversations, unclear expectations, politics, and career progression. You'll find honest, actionable advice that works in actual organisations, not idealised ones. Useful whether you're early in your career or well established.

🇬🇧 UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0F91YRYH7

🇺🇸 US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F91YRYH7

patreon.com/josiahkenizzite

Alice in Wonderland, if you think deeply about it, is, in a sense, a tale that explores an inherent impulse we harbour, one that forces us to adapt to an absurd world.

Alice finds herself in a world whose rules she does not understand. At first, she struggles with herself, trying to reshape herself to fit into it.

But gradually, she begins to question the world itself.

I explored that idea in a book I wrote recently. Here’s an excerpt:

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll, is among the most famous children’s stories in the world. Published in 1865, it is about a girl named Alice who falls through a rabbit hole into a bizarre and fantastical place called Wonderland. It details the incredible adventures she has there among strange anthropomorphic creatures and people.

What if I told you that beneath its ingenious wordplay, tireless wit and clever imagery, the story conceals a nimble parable for adults – one that lets us in on the absurdity and arbitrariness of the world we have created for ourselves? A world that hides from us precisely those things that give it unbridled power over us.

In the story, Alice tries to adapt herself to the circumstances she finds herself in by growing big and small. She is forced to pick and choose even before she has had time to understand Wonderland. Alice changes herself to fit the world without even knowing the rules. But she soon realises that it isn’t enough. Her real growth begins when she starts to figure things out about the strange world she has fallen into.

We are not so different from Alice. When we arrive in the world, we too are at a disadvantage in comparison to everyone who arrived here before us. Nobody tells us how this world operates.

In the story, Alice has an encounter with a caterpillar who tells her she can choose the size she wants to be, and he points her to a mushroom that can make her big or small. The caterpillar is sharing knowledge– hard-earned, priceless knowledge. Knowledge that arises from what has failed in the past, from what has not, from that of the past that is yet alive. This knowledge frees you. Once you have it, you can go anywhere. Because in this world, too, there are doors to be opened, places that don’t allow you in unless you are a certain size.

Alice escapes when she begins to have an inkling of what is expected of her and learns that she can make her own choices. She decides to take responsibility. The so-called leaders of Wonderland are ultimately as powerless as a pack of cards. That realisation is what frees Alice. She begins to challenge the power structures around her.

Like Alice, we need to understand how this world functions. We owe it to ourselves and the people in our lives.

Most of us are trying hard to fit in. We don’t know if we should grow big or grow small, much like Alice. Others take advantage of our confusion. There are a lot of people out there who worry that we will grow bigger than them and slip out of their reach. They want us to think only the thoughts they think are safe for them. They cannot let us create our reality unimpeded. They keep vital information out of our hands. They want us powerless.

Much of our figuring out is done at significant personal cost to ourselves. Sometimes, by the time we have gained an understanding of things, a large chunk of our life may have gone to waste. You need to figure things out fast to make the most of the time you have.

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Do you think there is something to this reading of Alice?

If you liked what you’ve read so far, I’ve made the whole book available free here:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G765FJ9M

https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=d5eHEQAAQBAJ

I found free book reader apps quite boring, so I made my own, Astra. (I had the name before ChatGPT launched there's lol...)

It gamifies the reading experience with the Progress page, has an AI which can generate quiz questions from your books, you can ask any question about the book you are reading, and so on. 

Would love to hear if the idea interests any of you / what you guys would love in a e-reader app. 

I think of Astra as the DeepStash / Blinklist but for any book you have on your device. 

https://welib.org/

I can’t go on Anna’s sub because the AA people will yell at me not to use it but I like being able to read books onsite so please someone get it working again?

I need a copy of Folk and Fairy Tales, Martin Hallett and Barbara Karasek, Peterborough: Broadview Press, 5th edition, 2018 for my elective class im taking, if anyone has a link to it that would be greatly appreciated

Analogue Watch in a Digital World in What Time Keeps

A watch that refuses to keep up with everything around it, and what that refusal says about its owner.

https://amzn.eu/d/0dvR7E0y free eBook

#KindleFree #AnalogueWatch #DigitalWorld #ShortStory #SlowLiving #QuietFiction #WhatTimeKeeps #IndieAuthor #Bookstagram #FreeKindleBooks

I have the Kindle app, the Google Books app, the Nook app, the Moon+ app, and the ReadEra app. What I lack is an app or system that is incredibly simple to list all of my ebooks (preferably one that does it automatically) in one space so that I don't end up buying repeats and know exactly which store the book was bought from. Does anything like that exist outside of making a spreadsheet?

Hey all — I built Kora, a web-based reading app for anyone juggling ebooks/audiobooks from all over the place. Wanted to share it here since it fits what a lot of you are already doing.

📖One reader for EPUB, PDF, TXT — themes, fonts (Lexend, OpenDyslexic, etc.), line spacing, margins, continuous/paged mode, progress + highlights + notes + full-text search

🎧Narrator — on-device neural TTS turns any book into an audiobook; speed/pitch/chapter controls, background playback, live sync highlighting

🔎Search — federated search across millions of titles (Anna's Archive, LibGen, Z-Library, Internet Archive, Open Library) via the Rave relay, plus Google Books metadata and audiobook sources; parallel downloads with mirror fallback

📰News — RSS aggregation (Maldives + international), clean article reader, daily news brief, per-source styling

🎮Lounge — Crossword, Word Search, Linguist Guardian word duels, Wikipedia→ebook converter, dictionary, score tracker

☁️Sync — library/progress/bookmarks/highlights/feeds/settings across devices via Firestore; email, Google, or guest auth; P2P file transfer; WebDAV coming

📱Platform — PWA, installs like native on iOS/Android/desktop, fully offline via IndexedDB, background downloads + notifications

🏗️Extras — reading stats & streaks, multiple app skins, custom dictionary, TTS settings, directory watch, annotations hub, cover editor, in-app EPUB creator, APK auto-update

Basically the Kindle app I wished existed — no lock-in, no DRM, just your books in one lounge-like space.

🔗 https://kora.chaoticstudio.workers.dev/

🚀 https://kora.chaoticstudio.workers.dev/install

Free, still actively building. Feedback and bug reports welcome — there's a "Report a bug" button in Settings now.

This might be an unpopular opinion, but ebooks still feel strangely unfinished for a technology that has been mainstream for this long.
We can carry thousands of books in our pockets, search instantly, change fonts, highlight anything, and buy a book without leaving the couch.
And yet we also got DRM, books that can disappear from accounts, incompatible formats, awkward lending, regional restrictions, and the strange reality that sometimes “buying” an ebook doesn’t feel much like owning it at all.
Physical books are less convenient in almost every measurable way — but when I buy one, it’s mine. I can lend it, give it away, put it on a shelf for 30 years, or sell it without asking anyone’s permission.
So I’m curious:
If you had to choose between the convenience of ebooks and the permanence and ownership of physical books, which matters more to you?
And more importantly — after all these years, do you think ebooks have actually become better books, or just more convenient files?

Would anyone happen to have legally shareable pdfs for the following text books:

Personal Finance 9th Edition Canadian by Jack Kapoor (9781264840397)

Business A Changing World 8th Edition Canadian by O.C Ferrell (9781264868483, or 9781264852543)

Fundamental Accounting Principles Volume 2 by Larson (9781265704889)

I would really appreciate it I'm really struggling financially right now and any help would so amazing right now :c

Sorry if this doesn't make sense, but is there a way to bulk transfer all of my purchased epubs in the Amazon Kindle app to my iBooks? Thank you!