Saturday, May 14, 2011

Link round up from 05/07/2011 to 05/14/2011

23 Band Names Inspired by Literature

I found this book about the longest baseball game in history: Bottom of the 33rd

Amazon is going to get into lending e-books. This is a big deal: Amazon teams up with Overdrive for Kindle library lending 


NPR discusses pulp fiction (the genera not the movie): Rich Tales In Cheap Print: Three Pulp Fiction Finds

Another NPR story on digital books. This one includes a reference to a new version of From Here to Eternity. The company that's discussed is called Open Road Media. The story is: Publishers Navigate The 'Open Road' Of E-Books

#TeamBlackness sat down with Professor Blair Kelley to discuss Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention. Here's the podcast

The Christian Science Monitor did a write up about a new website that helps  figure out what to read: 'What should I read?' A new site called Bookish hopes to tell you

Said website, if you'd like to sign up, is called: Bookish. It hasn't launched yet, but I have high hopes for it. 

Every month Amazon does a top book list. Here is the one for May: 8 best books of May: Amazon editors choose


I fell in love with a new blog this week. It's irreverent humor made me laugh out loud. It's called: Better Book Titles

Here is a beautiful water color comic about the San Francisco Library. Click this link. The art will leave one breathless: Meanwhile, The San Francisco Public Library. <~~~ CLICK THIS LINK. 










(Image brought to you by: Asen Todorov

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