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"Welcome to our city – to our world – of books. This is where we live"
As the year winds down there is no shortage of Top Ten and Best Of lists to be had for books but what I haven't seen yet is a list of the top book related videos of the year.Well, here is my vote for the best book related video of the year.This Is Where We Live is an animated film produced by Apt Studios and Asylum Films in celebration of the 25th anniversary of the UK publisher 4th Estate.This Is Where We Live from 4th Estate on Vimeo.Absolutely fantastic.Thanks to Classical Bookworm for the lead
Whatever Gets You Through the Night
Now you can turn your library into a box spring.The folks over at Flying Beds have devised this monstrosity where your books become "the bedface" in their "unique Bookcase application." The books are "siliconed into position to add that deception theme."Thanks to the Bookshelf blog for the lead
Can the Resturants Save the Bookshops?
Two popular and successful Seattle restaurants have just opened up shop in two of the city's largest independent bookstores.At the venerable Elliott Bay Book Company Tamara Murphy of Brassa fame has taken over the cafe. Not only has the quality of the food gone through the roof but the entire space has been reworked bringing"There's a synergy between books and food"
The Chinese Book Burner and the Great Wall of Books
Qin Shi Huang, is one of the most notorious and prolific book burners in history. During his reign from 221 BC - 210 BC, Qin Shi Huang outlawed Confucianism and ordered the burning of pretty much all the books that came before him including the classic works of the Hundred Schools of Thought. It is also believed that he buried alive many of the scholars of the day. All in his quest to unite China.This the same guy who built the Great Wall.Jorge Luis Borges wrote an essay on Qin Shi Huang, 'The Wall and the Books' (La muralla y...