I have just finished reading Clive Thomspson’s WIRED artcile on the Future of Reading. The notion of unleashing the book online to prod readers into interacting with text sounds like fun and I like the idea of focusing on the reader. I look forward to all the variations and trials that publishers put forward in the coming months, but there is one aspect of books that I hope they maintain in all their experimentation…
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For those of us not at BEA
Yes, once again, it’s that time of year and BEA is in full swing up nawth in New York. And once again I’m down south… not at BEA. But the bourbon is cheaper here and I didn’t have to stress over what books to pack as my “trip books”, so I guess I have that going for me. Well that and BookTV, which has a great line up of live and delayed BEA coverage all weekend long. So check out the schedule to see what you can see. One note, I see that Pat Conroy was in the lineup on an author panel, but today had to pull-out due to his still recovering from surgery.
Punny Book Contest
I saw this via @weknowbooksetc Twitter feed… and it made me laugh.
I warn you though, you must be able to handle REALLY bad puns to click through this year’s offerings at this year’s Edible Book Contest hosted by the Duke Univeristy Library System. You have been warned… Ha!
Secret Student-Run Library
In the vein of “if it’s on the internet it must be true”, here is a private schooler running a blackmarket lending librray from their locker. Basically, the school banned and pulled a bunch of books. Many are titles on everyone’s banned lists The Catcher in the Rye, Catch 22, The Evolution of Man, etc. So the student has been sneaking the books into the locker and lending them out.
I am heartened at the idea that books could mean so much to the younger kids running around, though I became suspect when the student claims that the Twilight series is banned, but won’t be in the secret library as
“…I don’t want that polluting my library.”
I thought all kids were required to worship at the alter of Stephenie Myer?