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At the heart of it all, I’m a fan. A fan of books and bookstores. A fan of fiction and non-fiction. A fan of authors and publishers. And most of all I’m a fan of great conversations sparked by books. All that to say - I really need more bookshelves.

Don’t forget…

check out this weekend’s lineup on Book TV.

Of note, a talk/interview with Howell Raines is on Sunday at 10am and 6pm. Plus, set the dvr for Eric Burns’ Infamous Scribblers at 2:50am on Monday.

Say it isn’t so!

Dear California,

Please keep books in the classroom. If kids don’t read books at school, they’re sure not going to read them at home.

Thank you.

You can read about the “experiment” over on this Reuters feed.

Penguin’s pen

Penguin Books has started a blog. It’s about two weeks old and sports nine posts today. It’ll be interesting to see how a big house like that handles a “conversational maketing” outlet like blogging.