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Weekend Reading: Save NYC Libraries
June 10, 2011savenyclibraries.org is organizing the Second Annual We Will Not Be Shushed 24 Hour Read In this weekend (June 11-12) on the front steps of the Brooklyn Public Library at Grand Army Plaza starting at 4pm on Saturday. Show your support for libraries and make your… Read More →
Found: making music more tangible again and how it can relate to reading
January 6, 2011One of our customers in Atlanta sent us this Design Boom feature on an IDEO project to make music a bit more “touchy and feely” again; in the physical sense that is. It got us thinking about if there are any parallels to digital books?… Read More →
Weekend Reading: Book Festivals and a Happy Birthday
October 15, 2010For the book festival lover, this is the weekend for you with events in Boston, Massachusetts and Austin, Texas. In its second year, the Boston Book Festival takes place on Saturday in and around Copley Square. The Boston Globe has a great article that breaks… Read More →
Weekend Reading: Library Card is your Smartest Card
September 10, 2010September is Library Card Sign-up Month and we feel that there is no excuse not to have a library card. We talked earlier this summer about the dangers that libraries all across the country are facing from cutbacks and closings. By getting a library card,… Read More →
Weekend Reading: Labor Day edition
September 3, 2010Each one of the 12 million immigrants arriving at Ellis Island had a story to tell. And the National Park Service has been doing a great job collecting these oral histories over the years. However, the only way to listen to them was by traveling… Read More →
Great interview with a great storyteller: Ira Glass
June 15, 2010Slate recently published a really nice interview with “This American Life” host Ira Glass. Since part of our mission is to “celebrate great stories” it seems fitting to share it. One thing that stood out to us as a great message we should all take… 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 →
Public Libraries Need Your Help
June 7, 2010Public libraries all across the country are in danger. Cities from New York to Dallas and Los Angeles, to name a few, are proposing massive budget cuts and libraries are caught right in the middle. Reduced hours, service cuts, layoffs and outright… Read More →
The Book Bike
April 29, 2010Is there anything better than spending a nice day in the park with a good book? Actually Gabriel Levinson has found a way to make it even better. Enter The Book Bike: a custom-built tricycle stocked with 200 lbs of free books that has been… Read More →
Literary stylin’
April 26, 2010A couple fun pics we’ve received recently that we wanted to share with you: A stylish English department at York Community High School in Elmhurst, Illinois And @jamesdonaldson posted this on Twitter. Glad to see he’s following proper checkout protocol!
