Archive for June, 2008
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Monday, June 30th, 2008As a youth, I was a voracious carnivore for meaty travel and exploration books. I snatched up nearly any volume I could find on the subject and dragged it down to my parents’ den.
That was well past 5 days ago, so any recollection I might have once had of the actual titles is long [...]
More Geek, please
Monday, June 30th, 2008Something tragic happened today.
Today, I took a test and failed. It was the Geek Test. Yes, that is what it’s called. The Geek Test. No frills, just 17 mini-sections of questions designed to pick apart your brain. Okay, I didn’t really fail, because, how the heck can you fail a test which asks you questions [...]
Top three ways to get from Biblio.com to Nigeria
Monday, June 30th, 20081. I didn’t realize it last week, but for me the next few days were going to revolve around Nigeria. Before last week, if someone mentioned Nigeria to me, sadly, the first thing that would pop to mind was usually credit card fraud.
2. With that unhappy association in mind, I was delighted when a [...]
Steal this e-book
Thursday, June 26th, 2008I’ve never liked the idea of electronic text as a replacement for the printed book. I borrowed a Kindle e-book reader from a friend recently, and whether of not it was my prejudice, I found it pretty much a neat toy, but not a viable way to read a book.
This morning, driving into work, [...]
New issue of BiblioUnbound is out!
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008The June issue of BiblioUnbound, our customer e-zine, was released today. This month, we focused on the paperback: why we love it, why we hate it, how to collect it and preserve it. It was a really fun issue to put together, and I hope you enjoy it!
Catherine
Editor, BiblioUnbound
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Turn books into a different kind of art?
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008When my friend saw online instructions for a project turning an old book cover into a purse and asked for my help I thought it was a fairly clever idea. We found some pretty book covers on hardbacks that weren’t worth much as books anymore, went to the craft store for glue, the fabric [...]
The Spies of Warsaw
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008I just got my copy of Alan Furst’s new novel, The Spies of Warsaw. There are only a handful of authors whose next work I actively pine for, but Furst is definitely at the top of the list. He refers to his series of Night Soldiers novels as “historical espionage.” I can’t put my [...]
Of Books and Backaches
Friday, June 20th, 2008Pazzo Books (a longtime bookseller with Biblio.com) has a great tipsheet for moving a bookstore over at the Bookshop Blog. Probably many of us in the book trade can sympathize with Tom, having endured this pain at some point, or at least dreaded it. Usually, its accompanied by invectives and curses brought down [...]
Summer gardening
Thursday, June 19th, 2008I love helping things grow. I admit it, I’m a pretty superficial gardener. I like to grow things you can eat. If you can’t eat it, but it grows large (sunflowers, gourds, and pumpkins and such - no one at my house eats pumpkins), that’s OK too. Gardening is very much [...]
Declining economy = increasing readership?
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008According to a brief article in the Chicago Post-Tribune, libraries in Lake County and Porter County Illinois are seeing a surge in circulations and a rise in patronage, owing, in part to the current economy. Its terrific to hear news such as this, since libraries have been arguably one of the most underappreciated [...]
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