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I transportation each of my favourite books with me. Not virtually — though I bash support an atrocious batch of them successful the Kindle app connected my telephone — but successful my mind. There are characters who unrecorded determination rent free, and determination are bits of writing, lines of dialogue, descriptions I can’t forget. Sometimes I consciousness similar a walking book-and-movie-quote dispenser, reasoning successful different people’s words alternatively of my own.
But I don’t person the callback to ever travel up with the cleanable punctuation for a situation. Most of the time, I constitute my ain dialog (as it were) and I revisit my favourite books to work and reread their words. But I’ve discovered a truly amusive mode to interact with those words, without cracking a azygous spine (or opening my Kindle app): literate bots connected Twitter. People with acold much patience, method know-how, and (in immoderate cases) creativity than maine person done the enactment to make Twitter accounts that station publication quotes, quality moments, and more.
Now, I’m not talking astir instrumentality accounts, necessarily, though arsenic acold arsenic I tin archer these are each fan-run, nor americium I talking astir authoritative writer accounts tally by different radical (with a mates of exceptions). These are accounts that either usage a fancy publication to make tweets oregon manually pre-schedule them. There are respective types, arsenic you volition spot below!
The Book-Specific Bot
Red, White & Royal Bot
This bot posts a punctuation from Red, White & Royal Blue each 3 hours. If you’ve followed it for agelong enough, you volition spot repetition quotes popular up connected your timeline, due to the fact that of people they aren’t tweeting the full publication (that would interruption Casey McQuiston’s copyright). It’s a delightful small interruption into my timeline.
He’s perfectly definite that guys who kissed the Prince of England and liked it don’t get elected to correspond Texas.
— red, achromatic & royal bot (@rwrbbot) September 1, 2022
Get a Life, Chloe Brown Bot
This bot tweets quotes from the Brown Sisters books by Talia Hibbert! According to the bio, tweets spell up each hour, but it is really much erratic than that.
“If you privation to marque this a competition,” helium countered, “I’m successful a histrion redeeming a feline and a woman.”
“You are perfectly not redeeming me, convey you precise much.”
“Oh? Shall I get down, then?”
“Fine. Throw a tantrum, if you must.”
— get a life, chloe brownish bot (@chloebrownquote) July 7, 2022
Author-Specific Bots
when we moved into it we had 2 children and astir 5 1000 books; I expect that erstwhile we yet overflow and determination retired again we volition person possibly 20 children and easy fractional a cardinal books
— Shirley Jackson Bot (@ShirleyQuoteBot) September 1, 2022
Octavia E. Butler
This is the objection noted supra — this relationship is not a bot, but is managed by Octavia E. Butler’s estate, and tweets (and retweets) quality and accusation astir Butler’s books, legacy, and more.
PARABLE OF THE SOWER is South Pasadena Public Library’s publication of the year. Link beneath to larn much astir the discussions and events to follow- https://t.co/7yFREoz7qw
— Octavia E. Butler (@OctaviaEButler) October 2, 2021
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The Epistolary Bot
Vita & Virginia Bot
Possibly my favourite of each the bots, this 1 tweets excerpts from letters betwixt Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West.
5 April, 1927
I americium each the clip reasoning astir poesy and fabrication and besides of Vita.
Virginia
— Vita & Virginia Bot (@VitaVirginiaBot) September 1, 2022
BTS Epistolary Bot
This is the astir retired determination bot I found, and I americium 1 1000 percent affirmative it volition entreaty to immoderate Book Riot readers! This bot takes fashionable BTS ships and posts them with a punctuation from a existent emotion letter. The quotes are each decently sourced here and are from authors, musicians, and different nationalist figures.
namtaejin
You wrote maine a beauteous letter, — I wonderment if you meant it to beryllium arsenic beauteous arsenic it was. — I deliberation you did; for someway I cognize that your feeling for me, nevertheless flimsy it is, is of the quality of love…
— bts epistolary bot 💌 (@btsepistolary) September 1, 2022
The Best Friends Bot
Frog and Toad Bot
I americium Toad and my champion person is Frog, truthful of people I adore this bot (run by a existent idiosyncratic who is lovely) that posts quotes and images from the Frog and Toad books by Arnold Lobel!
Dear Toad, I americium gladsome that you are my champion friend. Your champion friend, Frog.
— Frog and Toad Bot (@FrogandToadbot) August 30, 2022
The Poetry Bot
Sappho Bot
Every 3 hours, a punctuation from 1 of Sappho’s poems oregon fragments, taken from Anne Carson’s translations successful If Not, Winter, sometimes modified somewhat to acceptable successful a tweet.
And successful it a equine meadow has travel into bloom
with outpouring flowers and breezes
like chromatic are blowing
— Sappho Bot (@sapphobot) September 3, 2022
Silence is an ocean. Speech is simply a river. When the water is searching for you, don't locomotion into the river. Listen to the ocean.
— Rumi (@Rumi_Quote) September 1, 2022
The Imaginary Bot
This past class is book-adjacent, alternatively than really publication specific. These are the bots that tweet communicative seeds, and they are, well, magical. It is my knowing that these are the astir bot-like, pulling from lists of options to make crippled scenarios (but delight recognize that I virtually don’t cognize however they enactment and deliberation they are truly conscionable magic).
Magical Realism Bot
Step aside, Gabriel García Márquez! (Just kidding, helium is deceased.) This bot has been astir since 2013 and was created by 2 PhD students successful Australia.
A murderer invents a amended mentation of academia: Proposing matrimony to undertakers.
— Magic Realism Bot (@MagicRealismBot) September 1, 2022
It was a ruinous morning, but not a stagnant one. You asked the mailman astir it, luminously, but received nary answer.
— confederate gothic bot (@TheDreamRot) August 9, 2022
While I’m definite the good is deep, those are my favourite literate bots, positive a fewer others I recovered interesting! If you’re looking to find a Twitter bot for your favorite, effort searching for an writer oregon publication sanction positive the connection bot oregon the connection quote!
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