Books and Bibliophilia

I love keeping up with everything book related. I post about books, book art, book reviews, bookmarks, bookshelves, authors and typography.

April 24th 2013

New Basbanes Book

It looks like famed bibliophile Nicholas Basbanes and Knopf have put the finishing touches on Basbanes’ long awaited new book “On Paper: The Everything of [continue]

April 16th 2013

The Last Bookshop – Short Film

The first 10 minutes of this short film are fantastic. I would love to get lost in the stacks of an old shop just like [continue]

April 5th 2013

New Movie about the Death of Paper Books

Here  is a minute and 55 second trailer for Out of Print, a documentary that tries to capture what the digital shift is doing to books, businesses [continue]

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Publishing News and Views

I do my best to keep up with e-reader devices, publishing trends, apps and ideas for keeping bookstores alive and well.

May 3rd 2013

O’Reilly Cancels Tools of Change Conference

Yesterday, Tim O’Reilly announced that, after a seven year run, O’Reilly Media would no longer organize their annual “Tools of Change” conference. Of course, like [continue]

January 29th 2013

Where eBooks Fail

I buy 100% of my non-fiction as paper books and about half of my fiction as ebooks. This is because, when it comes to non-fiction, [continue]

November 20th 2012

Browse iBooks in Flipboard

Flipboard has integrated Apple’s iBookstore into its app. So now you can subscribe to any of the iBooks category listings. You simply add the “channel” [continue]

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Birmingham and Books

Birmingham, AL offers lots of chances to meet authors, great bookstores and opportunities to sell your used books in town.

April 17th 2013

Church Street Books Scavenger Hunt

The bookish barristas at Church Street Coffee & Books have organized something cool next week. They call it ‘Bookstravaganza’ and it kicks off on April 22nd, [continue]

March 15th 2013

Book Sale: Hoover Library

There is a Used Book Sale at the Hoover Library this Saturday (March 16, 10a-5p) and Sunday (2p-5p). Looks like hardbacks and paperbacks will be [continue]

November 19th 2012

Book Event: Meet the Authors of “Leeds”

On Tuesday, November 20th, Pat Hall & Jane Newton Henry will be at Reed Books signing their new book Leeds. The 128-page book traces the beginning [continue]

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