An 18-carat gold bookmark belonging to Adolf Hitler has been recovered in Bellevue, Washington.The bookmark was stolen from a Spanish auction house in 2002 and hadn't been seen since.The bookmark was given to Hitler in 1943 by his long-time lover Eva Braun. It was purportedly given to him as a consolation for his army's defeat in the battle of Stalingrad.The bookmark is inscribed in part "My Adolf, don't worry…(the defeat)… was only an inconvenience that will not break your certainty of victory."37-year-old Christian Popescu was arrested outside a Starbucks with the bookmark by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers. He...
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.