Remember some of the cool conversations we’ve had about reading, like whether books on tape count as reading and how people are reading fewer books? While I was browsing Babbledog today, two items caught my eye:
The New York Times has a piece examining reading online versus reading books. The Christian Science Monitor responds with some [...]
Nicholas Carr wrote an article in July/August 2008 Atlantic Monthly called ” Is Google making us stupid: what the Internet is doing to our brains”:
“I can feel it, too. Over the past few years I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming [...]
A cover story in today’s Boston Globe is about the publishing game encouraging writers to produce one book at year. It includes interviews with authors as well as people in the publishing industry.
One of the schedule bits the article fails to cover is that many writers don’t necessarily have a lot of time between finishing [...]
Kevin Bondelli’s YD Blog posted “80 Online Resources For Book Lovers”:
Social Networking for Book Lovers
1. LibraryThing is probably my favorite book-related resource on the web. I use it to catalog my personal library, as well as discover new books, find people with similar reading interests, discuss books, and more. Membership is free for a library [...]
From Wikipedia:
Theodor Seuss Geisel (March 2, 1904 – September 24, 1991) was an American writer and cartoonist best known for his classic children’s books under the pen name Dr. Seuss, including The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham, How the Grinch Stole Christmas and One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish. His [...]
Hey v, I’m sure by now you’ve read The Boston Globe’s cover business article yesterday about digitizing children’s books at the Boston Public Library. I couldn’t help thinking about you while I learned about the efforts to digitize rare, old, and fragile children’s books from the collection in order to share them online via the [...]
With the recent news showing declines in people reading books, someone in the book group I’m in shared this almost unbelievable story about a man reading an entire book. I thought some of you might enjoy it, though I’m sure by now it’s circulated through all the relevant discussion lists.
(Mind you, the source is known [...]
The Boston Globe has a gallery featuring New England bookstores, including a photo of the Montague Bookmill—books you don’t need in a place you can’t find (or something like that). Time your trip to Montague just right and you might as well go to the contradance in Greenfield.
While digging through a stack of newspapers last night, I discovered the December 30 comic Opus by Berkeley Breathed gives a common and amusing take on ebooks.
The first issue of the Code4Lib journal is now out:
“This mission of the Code4Lib Journal is to cover “the intersection of libraries, technology, and the future.” We hope that this journal can be one more contribution to the developing culture of collaboration around library technology, and we welcome you to join in our experiment.”
Beyond OPAC [...]