I find this headline hilarious, but applaud anything that means more people are reading. These are lovely and at least they have something to do with the actual contents of the books and are not this because I mean C’MON. YAY READING.
I’ve actually never read anything by the Brontës, I should fix that. I like this edition of Jane Eyre.
(via To Lure ‘Twilight’ Fans, Classic Books Get Bold Looks - NYTimes.com)
These covers are a lot prettier than those heinous Twilight-based covers they gave P&P, Wuthering Heights, and Jane Eyre a few days ago. Black with bright red flowers and whatever.
Books to Replace Your Favorite Canceled TV Shows
A pretty fun list put together by iO9. Definitely added a few titles to my wishlist.
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Why Should Books Still Be Books When They’re on Tablets?
For all the disruption in the publishing industry wrought by the Internet, e-readers, and tablets, reading a book still feels like, well, reading a book: tabbing through pages, digesting information linearly. But maybe that will change. The company Semi-Linear is hoping so: Its recently unveiled Citia iPad apps reinvents long-form non-fiction for the tablet, turning books into something that resembles less a sequence of chapters and more a digital spread of sharable, customizable, collectible cards.
Read more. [Image: Semi-Linear]
Very interesting concept.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5z83gOt2A1qcokc4o1_500.jpg)
Why Should Books Still Be Books When They’re on Tablets?
For all the disruption in the publishing industry wrought by the Internet, e-readers, and tablets, reading a book still feels like, well, reading a book: tabbing through pages, digesting information linearly. But maybe that will change. The company Semi-Linear is hoping so: Its recently unveiled Citia iPad apps reinvents long-form non-fiction for the tablet, turning books into something that resembles less a sequence of chapters and more a digital spread of sharable, customizable, collectible cards.
Read more. [Image: Semi-Linear]
Very interesting concept.
sign at McNally Jackson
Still love this display. Still can’t beat that logic.
Syllogisms are among the most solid forms of deductive reasoning, so yeah - it’s gotta be true.
The Twilight Zone episode 08, “Time Enough At Last”
In E-Reader Age of Writer’s Cramp, a Book a Year Is Slacking
For years, it was a schedule as predictable as a calendar: novelists who specialized in mysteries, thrillers and romance would write one book a year, output that was considered not only sufficient, but productive.
But the e-book age has accelerated the metabolism of book publishing. Authors are now pulling the literary equivalent of a double shift, churning out short stories, novellas or even an extra full-length book each year.
They are trying to satisfy impatient readers who have become used to downloading any e-book they want at the touch of a button, and the publishers who are nudging them toward greater productivity in the belief that the more their authors’ names are out in public, the bigger stars they will become.
“It used to be that once a year was a big deal,” said Lisa Scottoline, a best-selling author of thrillers. “You could saturate the market. But today the culture is a great big hungry maw, and you have to feed it.”
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What my kids remind me, every evening, is that books are not always parboiled eggplant or overcooked asparagus; they’re not giant horse pills stuffed with mental-multivitamin-dust meant to be choked down before dessert.
Some books are roasted lobsters soaked with butter; some are molten tubs of dark chocolate; some are luminescent piles of narcotics.
” Let us now praise libraries, librarians (via rachelfershleiser)Five Classic Irish Books You Should Read
I always love a book list. Haven’t read anything on this one except for “The Picture of Dorian Gray”. But thanks to free domain, I just “bought” a free edition of Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” for my Kindle.
