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Bookmarked · February 1 2010, 7:51pm
3-Day Novel Contest
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Bookmarked · February 1 2010, 6:30am
Hollywood's Favorite Cowboy
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Bookmarked · January 20 2010, 11:26am
In Which We Count Down The 100 Greatest Science Fiction or Fantasy Novels of All Time
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Bookmarked · November 19 2009, 1:32pm
Donald Barthelme's reading list
Barthelme’s only instruction was apparently “in no particular order, just read them.”
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Remarked · October 7 2009, 7:54pm
RT @michelledion w00t http://lryxr.tk
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Remarked · October 5 2009, 2:11pm
"It is always bad business to try to explain yourself on paper..." —Hunter S. Thompson
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Bookmarked · September 24 2009, 4:12am
Umberto Eco: The lost art of handwriting
It's true that kids will write more and more on computers and cellphones. Nonetheless, humanity has learned to rediscover as sports and aesthetic pleasures many things that civilisation had eliminated as unnecessary.
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Bookmarked · September 23 2009, 5:25am
Reading Kafka Improves Learning, Suggests Psychology Study
According to research by psychologists at UC Santa Barbara and the University of British Columbia, exposure to the surrealism in, say, Kafka's "The Country Doctor" or Lynch's "Blue Velvet" enhances the cognitive mechanisms that oversee implicit learning functions.
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Favourited · September 17 2009, 4:13pm
via http://inspirationspam.com/2009/09/13/the-book-redefined
It’s small and light weight because special very thin paper has been used. And a new letter font was created for better reading in small print, so more text will fit on the page. And, the best part, the way you read a book has just been turned around 45 degrees. Which will make in-bed-reading a lot easier.
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Bookmarked · September 17 2009, 7:44am
O'Reilly Open Books Project
O'Reilly has published a number of Open Books - books with various forms of "open" copyright - over the years.
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Bookmarked · August 24 2009, 6:39pm
Obama’s Reading List for Martha’s Vineyard
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Bookmarked · August 10 2009, 7:11pm
The lost art of reading
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Bookmarked · July 14 2009, 3:52pm
Pages bookstore going down
The neighbourhood Pages will leave behind isn’t – and long hasn’t been – the one it helped forge. The store, which opened in 1979, is no longer part of a punk-inhabited art scene. The ’hood’s long been ultra-FCUK-ed.
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Bookmarked · June 1 2009, 2:15pm
Finder's fee and the future of publishing
There is no substitute for browsing, and nothing browses better than a bookstore.
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Remarked · May 29 2009, 10:51am
Just finished reading Cows, Pigs, Wars and Witches. I'll have plenty of light conversation topics for your next cocktail party.
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