#books

http://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2010/12/03/harp...

More grist to my mill in re: getting rid of books as physical objects: cheap POD books, which is whe...

http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/personal_es...

This is a really really good personal summary of an obsessive book collector's relationship with his...

http://bespokeeditions.wordpress.com/

This is a superb idea, and I would love to see it extended to cover *any* texts. Most of the books...

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/08/04/smart-swarm-p...

Reminder to self to pick this book up.

http://craigmod.com/journal/kickstartup/

There are a lot of things I would like to get funding for, if only Kickstarter worked in the UK. Bu...

http://bookshelfporn.com/

I love my iPad - I'm carrying so many books around with me these days, and it is very liberating. B...

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=dc...

Need to find the time to sit and read this. May need to C&P it into something instapaperable.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gew68Qj5kxw

Let's see the Kindle do this. Kids are going to love reading this....

http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/11/local-booksto...

Clary Shirky on the future of the bookstore. I think that the local bookstore probably has a longer...

http://samizdat.cc/cyoa/

Some absolutely beutiful stuff here - visualisations of the books, and the paths through them, and a...

http://www.sofobomo.org/2009/

Dammit, why was I not told about this? Next year, gadget, next year!

http://www.penguinsciencefiction.org/index.html

An archive and commentary on some very very striking SF cover design. Well worth a look.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/apr/24/espres...

This is brilliant, and I live near it, and that makes me happy. I shall have to go and find an excu...

http://www.kottke.org/09/04/media-packaging-mashup...

Jason Kottke's round up of well, exactly what is says - media packing redone in various distinctive...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/littlepixel/sets/7215...

Someone has taken classic record covers, and re-imagined them as Pelican book covers. This is absol...