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Bulletin Board The blog is in the Book Blogs Search Engine, albeit one of around 1,600. Still, thanks to Fyrefly. Bookish Linkage It’s hard to believe that Project Gutenberg is 40 years old. How Harry Potter saved reading. Reading romance novels may be hazardous to a woman’s love life. (via) Show Your […] Bulletin Board The 2011 South Dakota Festival of Books has released the schedule for the event, set for October 7-9 in Deadwood. Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes Bruce Springsteen’s Eulogy for Clarence Clemons (“Clarence doesn’t leave the E Street Band when he dies. He leaves when we die.”) The people who built Utopia […] Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes How to survive the age of distraction (“In the age of the internet, physical paper books are a technology we need more, not less.”) (via) Against Reviews (“Reading a book review is like reading about a restaurant in a city you’ve never been to, and have no plans […] Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes Invasion of the body hackers (“Footsteps, sweat, caffeine, memories, stress, even sex and dating habits – it can all be calculated and scored like a baseball batting average. And if there isn’t already an app or a device for tracking it, one will probably appear in the next few […] Worthwhile Reading in the Interweb Tubes Ode to a Four-Letter Word (“There is, after all, no such thing as an intrinsically bad, boring, or lazy word. There is only how it is deployed, and one of the pleasures of profanity is how diversely you can deploy it.”) (via) Blog Headline of the Week Apparently, God […] |
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