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📚 Leo Book Club 🦁

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Tue 25-Mar-25

ℹ️ This is the #bookcast where we chat all things #books

💬 Talk about what you've read, what you'd like to read and discuss the world of literature!

• Leave reviews and recommendations
• Post pics, articles, quotes, news, videos and anything else related to books
• Tag #leobooks and join the LeoBooks community

Happy reading! 📖

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Tuesday BookCast on the go! Share all your reading recs and general book chat here...

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Previous edition:

https://inleo.io/threads/view/adambarratt/re-leothreads-2fd5ihgg7

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The Book that Made Me a Millionaire | Ali Abdaal

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Reading a book from every country in the world 🌍 45 countries in novels

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Meta Stole My Books—And CEO Mark Zuckerberg Approved It

Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Mark Zuckerberg approved the steal.

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Children’s books are too depressing

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Society of Authors condemns ‘appalling’ use of pirated books in AI training

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The Harry Potter Illustrated Edition Hardcover Books Are All on Sale Today at Amazon

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📚 'Contagious’ by Jonah Berger

📖 Why things catch on, getting ideas to spread, and how to build word of mouth.

🎞️ FightMediocrity YouTube channel give their review…

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https://inleo.io/@adambarratt/bookbabble-57-contagious-by-jonah-berger

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Contagious: Why Do Things Go Viral? - Jonah Berger - Animated Book Review | Practical Psychology

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📚 'The Richest Man in Babylon’ by George S. Clason

📖 Classic parable on how to manage money.

🎞️ The Swedish Investor YouTube channel give their review…

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Taylor & Francis to use AI translation tools to publish books ‘otherwise unavailable in English’

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‘No consent’: Australian authors ‘livid’ that Meta may have used their books to train AI

A searchable database showed titles from former prime ministers Malcolm Turnbull and John Howard, as well as journalist Tracey Spicer.

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Kids ‘swipe books like they’re iPads’, says primary teacher - as child literacy drops since Covid

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‘More are published than could ever succeed’: are there too many books?

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Happiness interventions, navigating relationships with the boss (or when you're the boss) and a road map for perfectionists.

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16 Books That Will Make You Rich in 2025 | Charlie Morgan

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