For those not on the Twitter train here’s a large sampling of Book Patrol’s tweets for the past week.
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“Anatomy of a Great Book Cover”. The evolution of the cover design for Dave Cullen’s upcoming book Columbine – @ SLOG http://ow.ly/1DTd
Walt Whitman, photography and marketing. “one of the first authors to be known as much for his image as for his words” http://ow.ly/1Fxa
RT: @NiemanLab: With shrunken newsroom, online-only Seattle P-I sees 20% drop in traffic http://tr.im/hYg1 – and no new book content since!
6 Degrees. Lyrics to Devo’s “Whip It” based on the “bunch of parodies” in Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow http://ow.ly/1HJe h/t MobyLives
Thomas Merton given “chamber full of rare books and manuscripts, to use as a workspace” at monastery. http://ow.ly/1JQC / http://ow.ly/1JQp
RT: @biblioasis: Rebecca Rosenblum: Books are Sexy!http://tinyurl.com/c3v8zm “laid paper” “perfect binding” and that space between letters
Are Scribd & FiledByAuthor the Napsters of the Book World? http://ow.ly/1K9T / http://ow.ly/1Ka2
“One thing noteworthy about the vintage paperbacks business is that dealers avoid the third-party aggregators” Steve Gertz http://ow.ly/1LZf
New bio of “health prophet” Bernarr Macfadden. “Suitable for all..Whether you’re a workout freak or allergic to exercise” http://ow.ly/1MgK
Just received. Viagra email spam of the day. Subject heading – “Sleeping with a book in your hands, Try to do it with a girl!”
David Nygren’s “Under the Table” The world’s first short storyspreadsheet Excel has never looked so good. http://ow.ly/1N1b h/t TeleRead
RT: @jafurtado: Who Wants to Own Books?, by Adam Hodgkin http://is.gd/pWAu
Drool alert -Here’s a look at some of the goodies various booksellers are bringing to the New York Antiquarian Book Fair – http://ow.ly/1Nsk
Spaghetti Book Club – book reviews written and illustrated by kids for kids http://ow.ly/1OR8 h/t Kottke Help out here – http://ow.ly/1OS6
RT: @norton_fiction: 11 Prize-winning poets answer the question: “What Is Poetry For?”. Check out the video: http://is.gd/q5fP
W.W. Norton brings us Poems Out Loud / Celebrating National Poetry Month with Robert Pinsky http://ow.ly/1QfA
Book Obsessed, the Barnes & Noble video series on bibliomaniacs, wins two 2009 New York Emmy® Awards. http://ow.ly/1RCn / http://ow.ly/1RGh
Homeless bookseller to close stall in Harvard Square- “It’s the paperwork that killed me” http://ow.ly/1RNu
“I believe Amazon knows more about me than I do. However, here is most of what I know” mystery writer Donald Westlake http://ow.ly/1RXf
RT: @ajkeen RT @sschablow: Libraries are the ultimate analog backup of human knowledge.
The World’s Greenest Paper. 100% cotton. No trees or wood fiber. FYI -all U.S. currency since 1879 printed on it. http://ow.ly/1Sbv
Retired librarian cuts the (Internet) cord “Mainly, it’s a time-waster. And there’s so little time. Why waste it?”http://ow.ly/1SD1
Three weeks left until the King of Pop rids himself of 2,000+ items. 5 volume catalog of the Michael Jackson auction $200 http://ow.ly/1SEh
The Library as social service center – “These days..community need reaches far beyond reference help” via NYT http://ow.ly/1Ta9
2 killed as truck collides with cars, slams into bookstore -LA Times http://ow.ly/1TrE -AP: http://ow.ly/1TrS –UPI: http://ow.ly/1Ts1
Enough With The Smell of Books, Okay? “issue is not ‘if ebooks ever take off’ but ‘how ebooks will assimilate” -Booksquare http://ow.ly/1TAA
RT: @norton_fiction: Boston Globe: “Independent Bookstores holding up vs. Big Rivals” (via @dancullen): http://tinyurl.com/cjzjzb
Wednesday’s Author Video @ Book Oven – Raymond Carver http://ow.ly/1Wbi see the other 2 parts of this video here http://ow.ly/1Wcy
http://twitpic.com/2qat1 – “Do I Dare Disturb the Universe?” Poster for National Poetry Month, 2009
RT @bookmarketology: RT @adriangraham : How Comic Books became part of the literary establishment: Telegraph http://tinyurl.com/cyx587
NYT review “Tangled Alphabets: León Ferrari and Mira Schendel” at MoMA http://ow.ly/20Ph Slide show – http://ow.ly/20PC
Internet Archive’s new e-book reader. The illustrations look great. Makes me want to hold it 🙂 http://ow.ly/20XQ
http://twitpic.com/2ru7d – Image via the new Internet Archive Book Reader. From Old French Fairy Tales illus by Virginia Frances Sterrett
Books are becoming nostalgic curiosities-via guardian “Something to do with the shortage of real secondhand bookshops” http://ow.ly/21oc
RT @ChronicleBooks: Book design is an art. (With quote from our fabulous Aya Akazawa!) http://ow.ly/21oU
When to Put a Book Down – Cynthia Crossen at WSJ. “I never feel good about stopping…something has failed” http://ow.ly/21AA
Picturing Words: The Power of Book Illustration – Smithsonian Libraries Exhibition. Worth a look – web design so-so. http://ow.ly/21Oo
@lozier Sneak peek at the new website of the Antiquarian Booksellers Assoc. of America (ABAA).Huge improvement, now have a chance to compete
Abstract of Rebecca Mead’s piece @ The New Yorker on Portland, OR’s twin poets Michael and Matthew Dickman. http://ow.ly/24Te
Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Over 2700 digitized items! http://ow.ly/24Zw
Clearly, the technology allows me the opportunity to cover a wider range of book related news and information in a more expedited manner.