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John Miedema

Online Meditation 🧘 Neurotech Research ⚡ Contemplative Writing

    Snail Books

    Snail Books is an animist publisher cultivating farsighted collaboration among animal, human, and emerging intelligences. It supports writers whose work deepens awareness of our shared being and environment, human and more-than-human alike. We create books with digital bindings, often shorter in length and enriched with illustrations, developed in partnership with language models. There is AI in Snail.

    Founded by John Miedema in May 2025, Snail Books is a Canadian imprint based in Alcove, Quebec. It operates on an arts-and-climate business model that is not-for-profit. Fair-pricing options align with readers’ budgets, and proceeds support good causes such as our Meditation Community and Parkinson’s research.

    Snail Books distributes without Digital Rights Management (DRM), allowing readers to enjoy works on any personal device — phone, tablet, laptop, or e-reader such as Kindle or Kobo.

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      Each Generation Must Go Through the Hard Work of Learning to Read Early into Reading in the Brain I […]
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      A Neurotech History Series For centuries, the surface of the brain appeared uniform. Scientists […]
    • Grateful for this deeply reflective guest essay of The Divine Mind
      Grateful for this deeply reflective guest essay of The Divine Mind by long-time writing colleague, […]
    • Homing: A Quest to Care for Myself and the Earth, by Alice Irene Whittaker
      “In the garden is where I let myself stand, unknowing of answers.” In Homing: A Quest to Care for […]
    • Could some future technology take a deposit of these thoughts?
      A wave, the Buddhists say. Not a soul, just movement.Parfit calls it a bundle: thoughts, memories, […]

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