<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Open Books</title><description>Tales from the Close. A journal about how accounting teams and the people who run their systems actually live with them.</description><link>https://theopenbooks.com/</link><language>en-us</language><item><title>A Note Before the First Post</title><link>https://theopenbooks.com/posts/welcome/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://theopenbooks.com/posts/welcome/</guid><description>A placeholder while Open Books is being built. The real first post is coming.</description><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>