The never ending discourse about physical library v the internet generally bores me. However I found this article in the NY review of books to be quite informative, citing through the ages examples of distrust in the print medium such as this bit:
Le Courrier de l’Europe, a French newspaper produced in London, printed a translated [...]
do a google search for penguin deckchairs and check these out they rock. pefect for summer reading in the park.
listen to this 5 min vodcast by some guy from Vintage who has done covers for the likes of mcsweeneys and haruki murakami.
john gall’s 5 rules of book design
read the book
inspiration is everywhere
be thrifty with fonts
practice sound time management
rules are meant to be broken
as observed at a tim winton reading/book signing/QA last week.
do you sometimes feel that you don’t want to write?
do you have a set writing routine that you follow every day?
what do you use to write with (ie a pencil or a computer)?
how much of [insert name of character in novel] is based on your own experience?
as the sole librarian representative on our city council book group i was quite embarrassed to rock up to our book club meeting yesterday and say i hadn’t read the designated book (the bell by iris murdoch). we were given 6 weeks to read it, but every time i started it i got bored and couldnt [...]
penguin books have recently opened up a blog where readers can register to review a penguin classic then have their review posted on the blog site. ive just added the url to my rss feed reader so i can have reviews delivered to my igoogle home page every day rather than me go out and find them.
there are 1400 titles [...]
is, like, death???
NO - it’s becoming a VAMPIRE!
set in inner city melbourne, melissa [lissa] is a librarian and ’21st century geekgirl’ . her library manager is a cool fitzroy lesbian who breaks all the moulds of what librarians should look like. lissa’s library passion is shelving books and shelf reading [this is an industry term for making sure [...]
tim winton’s latest book, breath, is finally here. it’s not available in bookstores until next week, but it arrived at the library a week early. needless to say i have read it.
its set in a fictionional town in the south west coast of wa - somewhere near margaret river - in the 70s. being chicken enough to [...]
i participated in the edible book festival which is held on april 1 every year. the deal is that you make some food that resembles a book.
we baked, we ate, we judged. i didnt win in either of the three categories (which I cant remember what they actually were) and was disappointed that my homage to [...]
The new BoBo shelving collection by Wayne Maxwell will be released soon, a series of alder wood shelves with a wenge stain and a white backing board.
from this excellent blog dedicated to bookshelves.
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