LibraryThing’s Edible Books contest winner. The rest are wonderful, too. (h/t @FunkyPlaid)
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Jonathan Safran Foer’s book Tree of Codes was created by cutting out and rearranging text from his favourite novel, Bruno Schulz’s The Street of Crocodiles. The photos are intriguing. (via Tree of Codes, a Literary Remix | Brain Pickings)
The 20 Most Beautiful Bookstores in the World. Yes, please.
Nothing to say today. Carry on.
We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don’t have books, don’t fuck them.
—John Waters
(Source: once-more-withfeeling, via thebrickhouse)
British Library, Google Strike Deal To Digitize Historic Books
This is huge!
In a deal with the British Library, Google will digitize some 250,000 books that date between 1700 and 1800. The BBC reports the partnership will allow readers to “view, search and copy the out-of-copyright works at no charge on both the library and Google books websites.”
