The holidays are upon us, which means that in the midst of the usual Christmas craziness items I've wanted to blog about have been piling up in my news reader at an alarming rate. So in the interests of not falling further behind, my early gift to you is hours of bibliophilic browsing:First, David Hewson has an excellent series of posts detailing his experiences with the Sony Reader.And on a related note, The Kindle appears to be sold-out for the holidays, possibly in anticipation for Kindle 2.0The New Rochelle School District is cutting out a passage (LITERALLY!) of Girl Interupted:...
Nabokov Interview
Great interview with Nabokov. He discusses the writing process, his favorite writers, and he even reads the first few sentences of Lolita.
With advance apologies for wasting your entire morning…
...the following recently came to my attention:The Book TV Channel on YouTubeAnd...100 Awesome Youtube Vids for Librarians.Let the sound of no work getting done begin.
Boston Book Fair
Steven Schuyler reports on the Boston ABAA Fair. Some money quotes:"But the 'elephant in the room,' to use a good American expression, was the economy, which presented itself, as one colleague called it, as a 'cloud of caution' over the book fair."And..."The gap in value between truly uncommon material and the commonplace item is widening."Not to mention..."[William Reese] was concerned about a lack of young DEALERS. 'This business takes too long to learn, to become accomplished. I don’t see enough young, well educated bookish people going into the business as first careers these days. It requires too much experience to...
Monopoly anyone?
Simply gorgeous: BiblioOdyssey's 500 Years of Board Games.