Category Archive: Found
Found: NPR’s Librarian
October 27, 2010What was the first e-book? Is watermelon a fruit or a vegetable? Who was the first president born in the United States? If you are stumped by these questions, don’t worry, you are not alone. Luckily, there are people like librarian Kee Malesky who you… Read More →
Found: Typewriter Keyboard
October 14, 2010What was old is inevitably new again. Jack Zylkin has invented a Typewriter Convertor that turns the old school typewriter into a keyboard for your modern computer. He calls it the USB Typewriter. Check out the Etsy site for more details. And if the invention… Read More →
Found: The Phone Book House
October 8, 2010photo via inhabitat In our last post, we introduced you to the desk made of books. Well, Richard Kroeker, whose designs focus on usability and ecological sustainability, and the students at Dalhousie University Department of Architecture in Nova Scotia took it up a notch with… Read More →
Found: Desk Made of Books
September 14, 2010One of our friends spotted this and was kind enough to send it our way. This is the reference desk for the architecture library at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. And yes, it is made entirely of books! You can check out… Read More →
Found: BookTree in the Bay Area
June 9, 2010Attention parents in the San Francisco Bay Area: Not sure what you should be reading to your infant or young child? Don’t have time to scan through all those children’s books at the bookstore? Not to worry, BookTree is to the rescue! Started in the… Read More →
Found: Mast in East Village NYC
May 16, 2010What a pleasant surprise last night on a post-dinner stroll in East Village NYC to find a new used bookstore. Bryan and James, husband and wife owners, recently launched Mast with an impressive collection of fiction, art, photography and philosophy books. We stumbled into their… Read More →
Found: Britain’s smallest library
March 4, 2010What do you do when your mobile library discontinues service and the nearest library is miles away? If you live in Westbury-sub-Mendip, a small village in Somserset, England, you convert an old BT phone box into Britain’s smallest library. What’s not to love about this?… Read More →
Found: Great reading lamp
February 6, 2010A novel way to illuminate bedtime reading and bookmark your spot when it’s time to count sheep. It unfortunately appears to be a product concept at the moment, but we hope it eventually sees store shelves. Check it out here.
