The link below is to an article/tutorial on constructing a book headboard for a bed. If you’re really into books, this might be something of interest – but only use books that are rubbish. Why waste good books?
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http://www.designeverydayblog.com/diy-book-headboard/
The link below is to an article that reports on the findings of an interesting study regarding reading and empathy for others.
For more visit:
http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2013/oct/08/literary-fiction-improves-empathy-study
The link below is to an article that looks at the place of publishing in the midst of the digital revolution.
For more visit:
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/115010/publishing-industry-thriving
Most of us are pretty used to certain freedoms granted by the open web. Just as you can send a link for any webpage or service to a friend, you can also save an image from a page, examine its code or copy some text to quote in something you’re writing. That way of doing things may be set to change.
The blogs of large corporations are rarely worth reading unless you’re a journalist or a fan of marketing content, but on Wednesday Telefonica(s tef)’s blog carried an interesting article by Tim Berners-Lee, the father of the web and the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the body that formalizes new web standards.
The piece sums up all the different meanings of the word “open” in the context of the web, data, platforms and so on. It’s a pretty good primer on this stuff, so much of which…
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I will soon be having a break from Blogging as I am scheduled to undergo surgery in the near future, so early November is shaping as a lean period for my various Blogs. However, it is quite possible that there will be a large number of posts once I am able to sit comfortably in front of my computer again. I expect there will be no posts for possibly the first week of November. Up until November there will be short periods of no posts, with the various preparations required previous to surgery.
A new survey from USA Today and book discovery website Bookish finds that U.S. adults who own a tablet or e-reader read more books than the device-less. The survey also found differences in reading habits between adults under 40 and adults over 40.
The survey polled 1,000 adults nationwide and an additional 819 adults who own an e-reader or tablet. Overall, it found that 40 percent of adults — and 46 percent of those between 18 and 39 — owned a tablet or e-reader, “doubling the numbers from less than two years ago.”
Thirty-five percent of those who owned a device said they read more since getting it. Of the device owners, those ages 18-39 had read an average of 21 books in the past year, while respondents ages 40 and over had read an average of 16 books in the past year.
Those who didn’t own a device read…
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The link below is to an article that reports on the latest update to the free audiobook website LibriVox.
For more visit:
http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/free-public-domain-audiobook-site-gets-update_b78477
The link below is to an article that reports on Apple’s appeal against the sentence handed down in the ebooks price fixing lawsuit.
For more visit:
http://www.mediabistro.com/appnewser/apple-appeals-ebook-collusion-charges_b41203
The link below is to a book review of ‘Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields,’ by Wendy Lower.
For more visit:
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/oct/05/hitlers-furies-wendy-lower-review
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