Earlier this month Sony announced it was coming to America to take on the Kindle.Last Friday, Oprah Winfrey endorsed the Kindle.The folks at Sony are calling it the Reader Revolution. In a bold move they are essentially throwing in the towel in Japan, their home market, to focus their efforts here in America where they have been a bit surprised at how well their Reader is doing. Most of the Sony Reader brain trust will be relocating to America and they have unleashed thousands of Reader Revolutionaries throughout the country. These "revolutionaries" will appear at various retail outlets (think Target)...
Technical Difficulties at Book Patrol
As some of you might have noticed Book Patrol was down for most of this past weekend.The problem was traced to the blog redirect function offered by the Blogger platform.We believe all is well now.We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused and are working to ensure such a prolonged outage won't happen again.
The Tower of David Covered in Books
click to enlargeIt's billed as "The Night Spectacular." Using the Tower of David as a backdrop "The story of Jerusalem unfolds in a blaze of images, characters and sound as giant breathtaking images and lights are projected onto the walls, archeological ruins, bridges, water cisterns and the hidden pathways of the citadel."click to enlargeThe installation is the work of Skertzo, the French duo of Hélène Richard and Jean-Michel Quesne.Interview with Skertzo at e-light magazine.via Lisa Chellman
Librarians on the Runway
The event was the Style from the Stacks Fashion Show
Sarah Palin is a "voracious reader"
The latest issue of People magazine contains an interview with Sarah & Todd Palin. In it Palin addresses a question we've all been wondering about, the role of reading in her life.People: Do you think you're intellectual?Sarah Palin: Yessss. And you have to be up on not only current events, but you have to understand the foundation of the issues that you're working on as a governor. I had to do the same thing as a mayor. So it is not just current events but it's much more in-depth than that to understand how, in the case of me being...