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Amazon Popular Highlights, the “Hawking Index”, and Attention Spans
Wall Street Journal: “The Summer’s Most Popular Book is …”) had a clever use for Amazon’s Popular Highlights feature, while coining...
Feb 19, 20153 min read


New Book: Toronto World Film Locations
This was a fun project — combining brief film essays, local Toronto history, and some fascinating side-by-side photo comparisons of...
Apr 29, 20141 min read


Amazon’s “100 Books to Read in a Lifetime”
It’s actually a fairly interesting mix. And here’s a link to the GoodReads version — I wonder what the list composition would look like...
Mar 25, 20144 min read


Cool: Oxford’s Gutenberg Bible Online, in Amazingly High Resolution
“This Tuesday, The Polonsy Foundation Digitization Project, which aims to digitize the collections of Oxford’s Bodleian...
Dec 20, 20131 min read


On Reading Books in the Dark
I am an avid bedtime reader, for better or for worse. So this article from the Wall Street Journal, “Does reading in dim light hurt your...
Nov 1, 20132 min read


New! Haruki Murakami!
“He woke to discover that he had undergone a metamorphosis and become Gregor Samsa .. All he knew was that he was now a human whose name...
Oct 28, 20131 min read


“Tsundoku: Illustrated Definition of a Book Lover’s Problem”
I love that there’s a word for this: (n). buying books and not reading them; letting books pile up unread on shelves or floors or...
May 17, 20131 min read


“How to Use a Kindle as a Bookmark”
Perhaps books and ebooks can live in peaceful coexistence after all. #books #ebooks
Mar 13, 20131 min read


BookRx, and Book Recommendations … from Twitter?
BookRx is a recently launched experiment from the Knight Lab, which crawls a Twitter feed (assuming one tweets about books), to make...
Feb 25, 20132 min read


Books and McDonalds … not that crazy of an idea?
The U.K.’s Biggest Distributor of Children’s Books Is About to Be … McDonald’s” — “It’s easy to make fun of the experimental McLiterature...
Feb 17, 20132 min read


Do We Remember Facebook Better Than Books …?
Study: People can remember more about Facebook than real books” — “Researchers at the University of Warwick and the University of...
Feb 11, 20131 min read


Book “DNA”
a look at BookLamp earlier, and here’s some news from Publishing Perspectives: “BookLamp Infographic Visualizes the Thematic Flow of a...
May 18, 20121 min read


Britannica, and the Future of Encyclopedias
Some big news in the print/digital world of books, from the New York Times: “After 244 Years, Encyclopaedia Britannica Stops the Presses”...
Mar 15, 20122 min read


Buying Too Many Books
I love buying books. I love going to bookstores and I whiling away the time with online wanderings trying to find something resembling a...
Mar 11, 20122 min read


“The 10 Most Expensive Books in the World”
“John James Audubon’s Birds of America, which already holds the title of most valuable printed book in the world, having sold for...
Mar 1, 20122 min read


Books and eBooks: Fixity and Fluidity
In terms of print vs. digital, in what ways do we change what we think of as a “book”? Nicholas Carr (author of The Shallows: What the...
Feb 7, 20124 min read


“Should eBooks Be Distinguished From Books?”
Sure, it’s a question for ebook-obsessives and publishers to think about now. But, it’s not all that far-fetched to think about how that...
Jan 24, 20121 min read


Books vs. eBooks?
Books: higher author royalty; more use for used paperback than used ebook; easier to impress passersby with Infinite Jest book cover...
Dec 15, 20111 min read


Books vs. eBooks?
I found this nifty infographic (click on the image to check out the giant-sized version), which is opportunity enough to think about...
Dec 15, 20112 min read


The Lifecycle of Books: Book-Swapping, and Book Recycling
Book recycling is a great concept. And I was pleasantly surprised to see how many different websites there are with creative variations...
Dec 14, 20112 min read
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