A physical archive of books is being created. Once a book is digitized libraries are throwing them out, so the lovely people at archive.org are putting the cast outs in shipping containers. Read about it here: Why Preserve Books? The New Physical Archive of the Internet Archive.
Plausible-Seeming But Tonally Inappropriate Book Covers. Thought this was cute, my favorite is Animal Farm.
Tea Obreht just won the Orange Prize for her novel The Tiger's Wife. She's 25. I'm going to go cry quietly in a corner.
I think I found the starting point for Western comics: Illustrated Police News: sensationalist 19th century crime newspaper.
American Library Association Appeals To U.S. Senate. Please write your Senator to keep the federal funding of libraries at it's current level. Here's a link to the US Senate.
I discovered a wonderful blog this week called MotherReader. Check it out.
Amazon has it's list of the Best Books of June
Here's the Periodic Table of Storytelling.
Looking for summer reads? Well The Unshelved Book Club has that covered.
Mark Siegel is using social media to raise funds for his webcomic. If you enjoy his illustrations donate on Kickstarter page: Sailor Twain, or the Mermaid in the Hudson.
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