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Tub Lit: Kickstarter project offers waterproof books
The latest crowdsourced gem for the book crowd comes to us from Bibliobath. Thanks to Wing Weng and Jasper Jansen, a Dutch-Chinese couple based in Amsterdam, we finally have the waterproof book! They...
View ArticleAllen Ginsberg on censorship, language and police brutality
Click here to view the embedded video. In 1968 Allen Ginsberg appeared on Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. The topic was the Avant-Garde but it wasn’t long before Ginsberg, who Buckley refers to...
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For your viewing pleasure: Booklandia.TV, a new literary-focused Web channel...
We noted there are food channels, sports channels and animal channels. However, we could not identify a book channel of any significance. Given the role of books in our culture, the idea made...
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Watch Harper Lee see a finished copy of “Go Set a Watchman” for the first time
Photo: © 2015 Mary Murphy and Company LLC New York’s PBS flagship station THIRTEEN is all over the release of Harper Lee’s “Go Set a Watchman,” her much anticipated follow-up novel to “To Kill A...
View ArticleTeens vs. The Encyclopedia
Click here to view the embedded video. Q: Are there any benefits to a physical encyclopedia compared to the internet or wikipedia? A: I’m pretty sure there is but no. Fine Brothers Entertainment...
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For the love of the library
Jason LaMotte was very fond of his neighborhood library in Houston, Texas. As LaMotte tells the Guardian: I have strong recollections of my neighborhood library in Houston, Texas in the US. I can...
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Poets inspired by Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan is the subject of a new anthology of poems edited by two retired professors from his home state of Minnesota. Whittled down to 100 poems from a pool of 500 Visiting Bob: Poems Inspired by...
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Booksellers on Film: New documentary set for March release
What once seemed like an esoteric world now seems essential to our culture: the community of rare book dealers and collectors who, in their love of the delicacy and tactility of books, are helping to...
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RuPaul visits the library
RuPaul hosted Saturday Night Live this past weekend and one of the skits featured him visiting the San Diego Public Library for a little reading time. He tackles such children’s classics as Madeline,...
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Japanese used bookstore chain really wants to buy your books
Book Off, a secondhand bookstore chain in Japan, is in dire need of inventory. To try and remedy the situation they have produced a television commercial “begging customers to sell them books” The...
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