New habit: always have a library book on loan
Imagine every two weeks always having a new book to read. Sounds great, right? You could accomplish this with a subscription to Amazon Kindle Unlimited. …
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Grocery shopping can be a simile for reading books
Books and shopping baskets. They really quite similar. While shopping with my girlfriend yesterday, I held the basket while she picked them items and handed …
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A library with no books
The Library of the future is coming and it has no books! San Antonio has plans for a bookless library. The rendering is quite curious. …
What happened to Amazon’s book rankings by city?
Do you remember when Amazon used to rank books by their popularity in various cities? I enjoyed seeing which books were topselling in Chicago. Or …
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Do you like old book smell?
“Lignin, the stuff that prevents all trees from adopting the weeping habit, is a polymer made up of units that are closely related to vanillin. …
When eBooks take over, will we hang posters of books on our walls?
Do you enjoy showing off your books? Or maybe you enjoy seing your shelves filled with books. While I do like my book shelves, I …
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Keeping track of how you discovered books
Goodreads has a poll asking about where you heard about the previous book you read. Here are the results: I voted for “blog post” because …
Browsing through eBooks vs. real books
The vast selection of used books in the basement of After-words bookstore makes me appreciate being able to discover books. But it also makes me …
Bookstore of the future
What could the bookstore of the future look like? Bethanne Patrick, Executive Editor of Book Riot, asked this question on her blog post, “The Bookstore …