I drove around town a little this evening taking in all the Potter Pandemonium. I’m always amazed at how many people come out for these releases. But I was no where near as excited as Line # 72 (pictured below) at Barnes and Noble at the Summit.
He came walking out of that store whooping it up like he’d just won the lottery. And what was funny was…
Continue reading Just a big ‘ol mob scene
Here is one for all of you “book arts” types. It’s a music video that uses a pop-up book for 90% of the video. I don’t know how hard it is to make a pop-up book, but this is pretty fun stuff to watch. (via Book Patrol)
There’s a new service designed to ease all of our green guilt. You can pay to have trees planted in accordance to how many books you own. Best I can tell they encourage an easy one tree planted per one book owned ratio (at about a dollar per tree).
It’s also neat that they plant the trees around the world (places that actually need them). (via Bookninja)
According to this cool article/interview, Amazon’s most prolific customer reviewer has posted 12,000 reviews in 7 years. That’s unbelievable and a lot of folks in the industry have been taking note. Though an English professor interviewed for the article admits that she has, on occassion, read 5 books in a day!
I don’t think I can drink enough coffee to get me to that pace.
