The libraries look like big bird houses or small dog houses, some of them sitting up on posts, others on the ground, and others hanging on walls inside places like cafés. [...]
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There are a whole lot more great non-fiction works coming to a graphic book near you. And of course, as an editor, the graphic book I want most of all is The Elements of Style Illustrated. [...] It’s all about the number of “Likes” of the PAGE rather than about people who have actually heard of Penguin and really like Penguin BOOKS. [...] I think I’ll watch out for true, educated, thoughtful Experts from now on. And maybe the occasional personal review on book blogs where the writer is just talking about books they like, and has nothing at stake. [...] I love that there is someone who actually searches out things like this. Remember when most covers of science fiction and fantasy novels seemed to feature scantily clothed women (or “better” still, women in clothing that had been torn until it was now scanty), and men with inhumanly bulging muscles and long, suggestive swords? Orbit [...] Sony ereader I feel like just pointing at this blog post (Why We Need Books) from Heidi Turner, over at The Happy Freelancer blog, and saying, “What she said!” She makes some great arguments for why the real paper book should always stay in existence, no matter how electronic everything goes. They can exist [...] He argues that we should neither be in such a rush to eliminate physical paper books, nor should bookish people look down their noses at digitized books and e-readers. We are not confronted with an either-or situation, says Darnton, despite what people on both sides of the divide believe. [...] You type in an author’s name, and a cloud of other author names comes up. They may be included because they write similar things, or others who read those authors also read these, or for other reasons. [...] This has me so horrified I can’t even write about it. [...] I don’t think this is going to end up substituting for opera as we know it; I think it might draw more people in, and widen their perspectives. [...] |
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