Hello everyone,

It's fairly well known, but certainly not enough, so I'm taking the time to present it to you to share a REAL "good plan", and why not give you an idea for a useful gift for the festive season that's approaching.

The pass lecture / culture BnF costs 24 euros per year (or 15, depending on age and income).
https://www.bnf.fr/fr/pass-bnf-lecture-culture

I won't go into the physical possibilities offered by this pass, as the venues are all in Paris.

What's really interesting are the online resources that can be accessed remotely:
https://www.bnf.fr/fr/les-ressources-electroniques-la-bnf
- e-books (800,000 available, via certain partnerships),
- an encyclopaedic collection of books covering very wide areas (https://www.bnf.fr/fr/ressources-electroniques-exemples-de-collections-par-discipline) from leading publishers of university quality,
- access to the daily press (https://www.bnf.fr/fr/ressources-electroniques-de-presse),
Here too, there is a plethora of resources on offer, including Médiapart, Arrêt sur Image and direct access to the New York Times.
And thanks to a partnership with Pressreader: 7,000 newspapers and magazines from 100 countries and in 60 different languages, including L'équipe, Libération, Le Parisien, Alternatives économiques, Marie-Claire, L'Express, Le Figaro, Vanity Fair, The Washington Post, Vogue, The Guardian, The Los Angeles Times, La Vanguardia, Novaya Gazeta, The Irish Times, Sowetan ... etc ...
And thanks to a partnership with Europress, you also have access to more than 1,500 newspapers and magazines, mostly French and French-speaking: many regional dailies such as Sud-Ouest, La Nouvelle République du Centre-Ouest, La Dépêche, Centre Presse, La Montagne, etc. and the magazine press: Le Point, Lire, Courrier international, etc....

And recently, the offering has also been extended with MusicMe, a music streaming service.

All this for 24 euros a year, or just 2 euros a month!!!!
To sign up easily: https://easybnf.fr/

I don't know if you realise that subscribing to just one of these press titles would cost you as much, if not more! A load of rubbish ...

I'm going to put in a damper on the site, though: the UI (user interface) is, how shall I put it ... not very ergonomic, in fact quite disastrous ... (due to a lack of maintenance and/or resources, I think).

But thanks to free and open source software, there's a great tool: ophirofox, an extension available for Firefox and Chrome.
Thanks to this extension, when someone shares with you a link containing an article with a paywall, you can click on it directly.
And you'll be able to use it in your everyday life ...
https://ophirofox.ophir.dev/

So, if you find this news interesting, don't hesitate to share it with others (outside the game, I mean)!