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Article: Great Libraries of Europe Photos

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The link below is to an article with some fantastic photos of libraries in Europe.

For more, visit:
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/124742

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Article: Beautiful Libraries

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The link below is to an article about beautiful public libraries around the world. Some great looking libraries in this lot.

For more visit:
http://flavorwire.com/280318/the-25-most-beautiful-public-libraries-in-the-world

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Article: Photos of Great Libraries

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The link below is to an article with photos of some of the world’s great libraries.

For more visit:
http://www.boredstop.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=156

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Bookshop: Book Barn

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Here’s a bookshop I came across on the web tonight – thought I would share it. Why? Well, it just looks like a great bookshop, with some grand old charm.

Visit at:
http://www.bookbarn.com/

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Article: Great Book Covers

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The link below is to an article on what makes a great book cover.

For more, visit:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/05/chip-kidd-ted-book-cover-design_n_1405555.html

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Article: Kindle Fire Update

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The link below is to an article on the latest software update for the Kindle Fire, which makes the Kindle more social. There are also some other great digital book enhancements.

For more, visit:
http://mashable.com/2012/03/29/kindle-fire-6-3/

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Blog: Book Illustrations

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The link below is to a Blog about illustrations in books – it’s a great site and highly recommended.

For more visit:
http://scrap.oldbookillustrations.com/

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Internet Archive: Hard Copy Ark

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The link below is to a great article on one of my favorite websites – the Internet Archive. The Internet Archive is also setting up a ‘hard copy ark,’ in which they are trying to save a copy of every book for the future. It’s a great site and a great idea.

For more visit:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/04/technology/internet-archives-repository-collects-thousands-of-books.html

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Google: No Longer Archiving the World’s Newspapers – Project Shut Down

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Google is one of my favorite brands. Sure, it cops plenty of flak and probably some of it is deserved, but I have to say they are a company that has largely got it altogether. I’m a fan anyway – for what that’s worth.

I am a big fan of Google’s ongoing project to digitize the world’s books and literature. Sure, they need to conform to copyright laws like the rest of us while doing so and they have had some questionable episodes in this project to date. But what an amazing opportunity to read books that have been out of print for years and even centuries. It is a great service and project.

Google was also digitizing the world’s newspapers and this also could have been a major gift to the world, but sadly the project has been shut down. They have managed to place a huge amount of archival material onto the net and it is fully searchable – which is just brilliant. How amazing it would have been if all of the world’s newspapers had been digitized and made available on the web?

Have a look at what is available at:
http://news.google.com/archivesearch/about.html
http://news.google.com/archivesearch
http://news.google.com/newspapers

For more visit:
http://searchengineland.com/google-shuts-down-ambitious-newspaper-scanning-project-77970

 

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The World’s Funniest Proverbs, By James Alexander

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‘The World’s Funniest Proverbs,’ by James Alexander is 154 pages long (my copy). It brings together some of the funniest sayings in the world – well they are generally clever and slightly amusing if nothing else. The book provides some light relief from reading those somewhat more heavy and taxing works that some of us tend to read. There are only about 5 or 6 proverbs/sayings per page, so the book doesn’t take long to flick through and/or read.

Why read it? Well, it provides some amusement and perhaps helps to take the mind of more serious matters for a short time if nothing else. There is always a wealth of information and content here for clever and witty status updates on Facebook and/or Twitter too.

I haven’t spent a great deal of time reading it – but I have flicked through it when time permitted and when I just needed something a little lighter for a while. It’s good for that.

Available at Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Worlds-Funniest-Proverbs-James-Alexander/dp/1906051070

There is a copy here:
http://ebook-freelibrary.blogspot.com/2009/12/worlds-funniest-proverbs-by-james.html