E-books, Obama-Biden and Prohibition: Any hope of educating the Dems about anti-consumer laws like...
Draconian U.S. copyright law is like Prohibition, turning the honest e-book-lovers into criminals. But could E life could improve in those respects under Barack Obama and Joseph Biden? I'm...
Doctor Who and the smell of books: Silence in the Library and Forest of...
Doctor Who has been much on my mind lately, what with the new Matt Smith season starting up. (Next Saturday’s episode will be the one penned by master horror/fantasy wordsmith Neil...
Well done, HarperCollins: librarians must change old thinking, by Martin Taylor
HarperCollins’ US unit has just changed its long-standing ebook policy for library sales. Instead of selling ebooks for a one-time cost and allowing libraries to lend these ebooks in...
History’s greatest library: Killed by cuts?
Given the scale of library cuts in the UK and elsewhere, and the anger generated by them, it's worth reaching back for a historical precedent that shows just how damaging cutbacks...
Hebrew University Launches Albert Einstein Archives Website and Database
From The Hebrew University of Jerusalem:
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem held a press conference today to launch the updated and expanded Einstein Archives website, at http://www.alberteinstein.info, containing a complete catalog of...
James Joyce reading his own work
From The Public Domain Review. Go to the site for the link to the audio file.
Joyce made this recording in Paris at the HMV studios at the insistence of Sylvia Beach...
Your dream reading-app for the DPLA and a national digital library system?
What’s a stellar reading app for the Digital Public Library of America, which wants to pave the way for a national digital library system?
Ideally this free app will make it Kindle-easy...
Vonnegut and sci-fi sites
Sites just found via Librarians' Internet Index: The Year of Vonnegut in Indianapolis and From Verne to Vonnegut: A Century of Science Fiction. Related: A Kurt Vonnegut good-bye—and a pointer to...
‘Kindle killed the library book’: Tracey Ullman video mocks miserly U.K. pols
Even as a lover of e-books, I laughed at this hilarious video titled "Kindle killed the library book."
It pokes fun at the mean-spirited U.K. politicians shutting down hundreds of brick-and-mortar local libraries. Props to actor-comic Tracey...
Library books you can KEEP forever—and other ideas to help public libraries survive the...
I'm baffled why Amazon readers are giving just three out of five stars to An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England. Not everyone will love the Guide's quirks, but...