You think you have a problem with hoarding books? The above short film, by Sergey Stefanovich, walks you through the library of writer and critic Duncan Fallowell, which “has spilled over into every available space and become an art installation in its own right.” (Via.)
Fallowell narrates, with lots of meditative insights on reading [...]
Do you have a cell phone?
Of course you do. Everyone does. So what will become of all those public pay phone booths that no one needs anymore?
Columbia architecture grad John Locke has an idea: turn them into public bookshelves. Reports The Atlantic Cities:
[I]n the past few months, the Columbia architecture grad has slipped around Manhattan [...]
In my early 30s, I don’t think of myself as old very often. Except sometimes when I’m on the train or at a park and I see everyone (everyone!) who looks to be about my age or younger, and sometimes people a bit older than me, too, texting like the wind. I’m a super slow [...]
When media outlets that cover the American publishing industry report on book sales and e-books “vs.” print books, they often cite percentages of sales increases and sales decreases as evidence of the current state of affairs. In reality, percentages don’t and can’t offer a full picture.
The Association of American Publishers (AAP) recently released book sales [...]
Do you love paper books? How about toilet paper books? Enterprising eBay seller the_heppcat offers a copy of Moby-Dick typed on 6 rolls of (clean!) Cottonelle. Says the item description:
There are four full rolls, one roll (epilogue) is about 1/5 of a roll and one half-roll
All of the rolls of TP came [...]
If you love a book, then give it away. Isn’t that how the saying goes?
World Book Night launched in the UK in 2011, with thousands of people handing out copies of paperbacks. This year, it’s taking place in the U.S. too, on April 23, with plans to give away a MILLION books for [...]
Artists/designers Sean Ohlenkamp and Lisa Blonder Ohlenkamp—the same folks who brought you “Organizing the Bookshelf” —have teamed up again to create another exuberant video, “The Joy of Books”. Writes Ohlenkamp:
After organizing our bookshelf almost a year ago (http://youtu.be/zhRT-PM7vpA), my wife and I decided to take it to the next level. We spent many sleepless [...]
Are publishers just eternal optimists? Continually self-deluded? Or–could print be alive and well after all?
Apparently, sales of books—actual books, those things printed on paper, bound with glue, and sold in stores—have been up this holiday season. U. P. UP. Reports the New York Times:
Barnes & Noble, the nation’s largest bookstore [...]
News flash: eBooks are growing more popular by the year–wait, make that the minute. But there’s one market where paper books are still king: babies.
The New York Times reports that even eBook-reading parents prefer paper books for their tots.
This is the case even with parents who themselves are die-hard downloaders of books onto Kindles, [...]
Is there anything more disrespectful to a book–and its authors and would-be readers–than burning? Book burnings are inevitably associated with censorship and repressive ideology, from the Third Reich to the more recent Quran-burning controversy. Even without those connotations, burning any book–for any reason–sends a shiver down my spine.
But can book-burning sometimes be justified? [...]
