Morning Coffee – 16 March 2026

by Nate Hoffelder

After a decade of running The Digital Reader, Nate is a veteran web publisher with experience in design, maintenance, recovery, and troubleshooting. What little he doesn't know, he can learn.

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Morning Coffee

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March 16, 2026

Here are a few stories to read this Monday monring.

Matt Mullenweg encountered a very convincing phishing attempt, and he shares a few tips on how not to fall for them.
Goodreads talks about their DNF shelf feature on their blog.
~~If you use Grammarly, it~~ Grammarly might be fraudulently using your name to give its AI editing credibility that it doesn’t deserve. (paywalled, sorry) NOTE: Grammarly is using people’s identities whether or not the person is a user bound by the company’s TOS. They are even being sued over this.
Thousands of authors have collaborated to publish an “empty” book in protest of their work being fed to AI.
if you are struggling to concentrate long enough to read books, here a five step plan which may help.
Ingram spark just published a Q&A on author websites.

P.S. Speaking of author websites, did you know I have a free author website in a box you can download?

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