The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here. [Instructions: Copy this into your NOTES. Set in bold those books you've read in their entirety, italicize the ones which you started but didn't finish or read an excerpt.] 1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen 2 The Lord [...]
1. What do you think of reading aloud/being read to? Does it bring back memories of your childhood? Your children’s childhood? Growing up with parents who read (a lot) (a lot, for fun), I could not help but fall in love with books and stories as well. No idea what the first book was my [...]
Still no idea if the Netherlands has a banned book list[1], but each year I am curious to see what the current lists are in the USA. The ALA (America Library Association) has an annual Banned Books Week, this year from September 24 until October 1. Why not read up and start reading the classics? Banning [...]
For decades, authors have used page numbers (and book/journal titles & editions) to refer to other works. But when a reference to a particular page is checked on an ereader or tablet it somehow no longer makes sense.
When I received my box with McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern #36 (and Michael Chabon’s Maps and Legends) today, I was ecstatic! Somehow McSweeney’s manages to publish an amazing diversity of interesting books without giving in to the pressures that face modern day pubishers. Each McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern has its own design, one more outrageous than the other! [...]
Can you even say, that you were a Trekkie? Does it ever leave you?
How Amazon Is Bringing Real Page Numbers to Kindle Books. What a great idea, but what will happen to e-only books? They do not have print page numbers. Especially in the academic/scientific world page numbers and their references are a major component of any publication, but how will this work on ebooks?
Sci-fi books/films/tv shows with a utopian civilization are a dream to live in (as the definition of utopian would suggest). There might be large and small problems & issues along the way, but overall the same humanity that causes these problems also solves them. All in all a nice society based on humanistic principles. Most [...]
