Archive for the 'books' Category
Need More Room For Your Books?
January 11th, 2008Boing Boing has an answer. Get a ladder. (From my good friend Laura’s shared items - Thanks Red)
Bookshops
January 11th, 2008Guardian Unlimited Books - “Every booklover has their favourite shop” (via)
No More Books?
January 10th, 2008BBC NEWS asks: With so many other ways to get information these days, do we still need books? (via)
‘Instant’ authors
January 6th, 2008Newsday - “With on-demand publishing, many are realizing their dream with limited number of copies.”
As Walt has proved, this works!
Travel Book Publishers Try to Reclaim the Web
January 2nd, 2008New York Times - “About a dozen years ago, the Rough Guides and Lonely Planet series of travel books, rival bibles for the footloose and fancy free, crossed a new frontier onto the Internet. But they found their road maps to the digital future hard to read.”
BooksInMyPhone.com
December 23rd, 2007Ivan Chew reviews this new-to-me service.
More 2007 Lists
December 22nd, 2007Most sought-after out-of-print books in America
On Children’s Books and Ratings
December 16th, 2007Commentary from Kids Lit.
Books I Won’t Buy My Kids
December 10th, 2007Pop-Up Books Meet Photoshop
Ulysses - Twitter Style
December 2nd, 2007Michael Lieberman has a round-up.
I’ve also subscribed to Booktwo.org, a new-to-me blog.
Library Blogging
November 28th, 2007Preordered @ Amazon.com - Library Blogging, by Karen A. Coombs and Jason Griffey.
Congrats you guys!
New Book on Book Banning
November 26th, 2007More here and an article about it here.
Why We Read
November 26th, 2007NYT - “PERHAPS the most fantastical story of the year was not “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” but “The Uncommon Reader,” a novella by Alan Bennett that imagines the queen of England suddenly becoming a voracious reader late in life.”
Books Of The Year Lists
November 25th, 2007Buzzfeed has a list of 5 lists
(via)
What your bookshelf says about you
November 24th, 2007Jeff Gomez makes a good point - “In fact, not only is print dead, but it also seems — since its true purpose is now to be admired in display rather than read or absorbed — to have been stuffed and mounted.”
More On Human Filtering
November 23rd, 2007PZ Myers - “[W]e don’t see school boards screaming to remove Chuck Colson’s books from the shelves because the author is a convicted felon, which seems to me to be a much more serious indicator of moral turpitude than atheism, nor do we see a call to eject books by Ann Coulter because she is [...]
New Book on Librar*
November 19th, 2007Bob Minzesheimer - “At first, Don Borchert wanted to title his quirky memoir about the unlikely drama found in a public library Ten Years, Good Behavior. After all, it deals with the bureaucracy of civil service which rewards rule-following more than creativity or imagination.”
Watching and Reading. Same Difference
November 19th, 2007Keir Graff - “Doesn’t Watching TV Count as Reading?”
National Book Awards
November 15th, 2007How to win one. Advice from New York magazine (via).
I’m still smiling from William Vollmann’s victory last year. I met a few WV fans at Internet Librarian this year.
A bookstores editorial voice
November 13th, 2007Blogspotting, on A bookstores editorial voice
More on Children’s Book Week
November 12th, 2007Michael Lieberman shows some posters.
Celebrating Kids Books
November 11th, 2007It’s Children’s Book Week
Are Printed Books “Un Media Green”?
November 8th, 2007Steve Rubel thinks so. I agree, to a point (I rarely use a printer or photocopier and do most of my reading online).
What if we were able to recycle 100% of every printed book, maybe after we read them? Drink a Pepsi, recycle the can. Read a Stephen King novel, recycle the [...]
More on the Misplaced/Missing Materials At The LOC
November 5th, 2007Samuel J. Redman - “In fact, museums, libraries, and archives in the United States lose items in their collections on a regular basis.”
Listservs are Dead
October 30th, 2007Correction: Print’s not dead, it’s a vegetable
Clarification On LISNews Post About Weeding
October 25th, 2007The title of this post at LISNews is a bit misleading.
The Rabbi is not making weeding harder. Taking a book off the shelf is easy. The library doesn’t have to throw the books out or, god forbid, destroy them. Just put the books on the “for sale” cart or give them away [...]
More On The Missing Material At The LOC
October 25th, 2007Book Patrol - “Part of the problem is that the public still uses paper call slips to request material and apparently many of the paper slips are as difficult to read as the Palm Beach paper ballots of the 2000 election.”
Read the survey results here.
Getting Boys To Crack Books
October 24th, 2007Jennifer Gish - “[M]ost experts agree that the best way to encourage boys to read is to have them see relatives and heroes doing the same.”
More on Book Scanning
October 23rd, 2007Shaun Mullen - “I have more than a passing acquaintance with the question of whether electronic media will replace books because of my day job in a rare book and manuscript library that sits within a larger library with nearly 3 million bound volumes and millions of electronic resources.”
Here’s a First
October 22nd, 2007KWTX - “An English teacher in Tuscola has been placed on paid leave and faces possible criminal charges in a book dispute. A student’s parents complained to law officers that a ninth-grade class reading list contained a 1974 book about a murderer who has sex with the bodies of his victims.
I’m sure there will be [...]