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@r_books
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315subscribers
+2 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
| Telegram ID | -1001254073708 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @r_books |
| Created | 8 April 2018 — measured — cross-checked against a third-party dataset (TGDataset) |
| First recorded | 6 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 12 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 6 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 3 times, most recently 12 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/r_books |
Literature — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 22 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 100% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 27 Aug 2026, 10:54 | 315 | -1 |
| 20 Aug 2026, 04:54 | 316 | +1 |
| 13 Aug 2026, 18:07 | 315 | +1 |
| 7 Aug 2026, 00:40 | 314 | +1 |
| 6 Aug 2026, 22:17 | 313 | no change |
| 6 Aug 2026, 09:03 | 313 | first reading |
20 posts held, back to 4 August 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 6 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
On sad books So sorry if this isn't the right subreddit to post about this but I used to gravitate towards the most gut-wrenching, makes-you-stare-at-the-wall, downright physically painful to read books, especially when I was an angsty teenager at the peak of my depression and riddled with suffocating anxiety. Clutching my heart and not seeing the pages through my tears as I read the last 20 pages of a book at 3 am…
I’d like to apologize to audiobook readers. I always thought “Listening is not reading” and got annoyed at people who said they “read” through audiobooks. Since having my baby I didn’t have the time or the energy to focus on reading. There’s always something to do in the house. If I sit still, I fall asleep. However husband and I started listening to Dune series while doing chores, so that we could talk about it. …
Jason Arday, the former Cambridge professor accused of plagiarism and embellishment, claimed he was paid “1.4 million” for his forthcoming memoir by publisher https://www.theguardian.com/education/2026/aug/06/jason-arday-claim-memoir-publisher-simon-and-schuster-cambridge?CMP=share_btn_url https://redd.it/1vh4ilr @r_books
Nolan’s film could make The Odyssey the most sought-after book in the US https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/aug/03/the-odyssey-book-sales https://redd.it/1vh4v77 @r_books
[The Atlantic] Someone Is Mysteriously Snapping Up Used Books Around the World https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/08/ai-companies-buying-used-books-for-data/688167/ https://redd.it/1vgzl05 @r_books
their relationship up sooner than Chava because of her cautious nature. After all she does say in THP him being with her would only complicate what she’s trying to build. I don’t think Ahmad is a beggar or would grovel absolutely not, but he’s certainly a bigger risk taker than Chava. If I’m honest, if I were Chava, I would certainly be upset I had to see Ahmad getting ridden like a show horse by Dima (happened duri…
The Hidden Palace by Helene Wecker (DISCUSSION ATTEMPT ABOUT AHMAD/CHAVA) This book was an amazing read, it however left me far more solemn than the first book. As the main leads begin to grow into the world, you start to feel the resentment of change as much as they do. The Hidden Palace is the second book of a trilogy (The Golem & The Jinni) so of course, it has middle book syndrome where a lot of the events act a…
McCarthy's The Passenger giving me Pynchon vibes It might just be the fact that I finished Gravity's Rainbow the same day I started The Passenger, but I can't help but feel that it feels like McCarthy is pulling his best Pynchon impression. The insane conversations, the over-the-top characters (though I understand that some of them are delusions), and the technical jargon tossed in just feel suspiciously familiar. I…
I just finished To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara and I am disappointed or am I just dumb? I really wanted to like this book:/ I love Yanagihara’s writing style. While they are run-on sentences that goes unto different tangents and strays far from what she was saying earlier, I love how descriptive she is and the control she has over her writing. The only trouble I had was going back to re-read certain exercepts to fi…
Anne of green gables is a wonderful book. It practically felt like healing. Anne says towards the end of this "Dear old world, you are very lovely and I am glad to be alive in you". To which I thought, I am so glad to be alive and have read this book. A little cheesy but that's genuinely how i was feeling. Through the book, right from the beginning, Anne shows so much joy, so much love to the world she is living i…
Books which did it with more nuance than those which followed I was thinking the other day about some subgenres (or just trends if you want) which spawned as a result of a particular book's success, wherein the original book is superior to those which followed. And not just by dint of being original, but by having a more nuanced take than those which came after. A Secret History by Donna Tartt is the book which mad…
Comic Anthony Jeselnik is the internet's newest literary tastemaker — with this author inked near his heart https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2026-08-05/anthony-jeselnik-book-club https://redd.it/1vghrsb @r_books
Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @r_books. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Named by 10 registered channels — every channel on the register whose own posts have named this one, by its current username or any other username it currently holds, merged from two separately captured readings of the same fact so a namer caught by only one of them is not missed and a namer both caught is not counted twice. A username this channel has since dropped is not matched — that handle may belong to someone else now, and crediting today’s namer to yesterday’s owner would misattribute it.
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Channels on the register whose posts name this channel's handle.
A mention is a weaker signal than a forward and is counted separately for that reason — naming a channel is not republishing it, and a handle in a post body is easy to place deliberately. The post counts beside each row below are distinct posts in which the handle appeared, from posts we have read on both sides — the “Named by N registered channels” figure above is a different count, of distinct NAMING CHANNELS rather than posts, and is not the sum of the rows under it.
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 27 August 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“r_books” (@r_books), 315 subscribers as measured 27 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/r_books.
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