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• Textbook sale: Better World Books cuts its prices by 10%

  
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  Our friends at Better World Books have slashed the prices of their textbooks for sale on AbeBooks by 10%….just in time for the spring semester. Better World are one of America’s biggest online sellers of used textbooks and have a deep, deep selection. If you are heading back to college or university, or need books ...
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• The Toothpick: Technology & Culture - Weird Book of the Week

  
  Reading Copy Book Blog — Authority: 516
  Start off the new year with some fun - our Weird Book Room has 6 new books! Featured this week is The Toothpick: Technology and Culture . Take a look at the history of this little item and the impact it has had culturally. Also, don’t miss the guide on being cool, if not awesome and  an in-depth look at ...
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• A Century Ago: The Bestselling Fiction Books of 2010

  
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  According to Caderbooks.com , these were the top 10 bestselling books (fiction) of 1910: 1. The Rosary , Florence Barclay The Rosary is a warm and touching love story set in England circa 1909. Jane and Garth are in love, but as so often happens they are separated with obstacles to overcome. Florence ...
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• Top Five Current Affairs Books of 2009

  
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  By Steve Weinberg, via NPR : Fit To Print: Top Five Current Affairs Books Of 2009 1) American Original by Joan Biskupic It is unusual for a biographer to write the life of a sitting U.S. Supreme Court justice. Similarly, it is unusual for a journalist whose daily beat it is to report on an institution to ...
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• Ursula K. LeGuin Resigns from Authors Guild Over Google Books Settlement

  
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  Science fiction writer Ursula K. LeGuin has resigned from the Authors Guild after 37 years of membership, following their decision to support the Google Books Settlement . The popular author’s letter explains her decision to stay with the National Writers Union and the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of ...
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• Wacky Wednesday - Weird Book Room Updates

  
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  Ready for your weekly dose of wackiness? This week in the Weird Book Room we’re featuring a training manual  to help those poor flightless chickens use their wings to become airborne.  The Teach Your Chicken to Fly Training Manual includes fantastic diagrams and detailed instructions to get you started. ...
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• Double Take - Strangers Staring at a Legless Man

  
  Reading Copy Book Blog — Authority: 516
  Kevin Michael Connolly doesn’t like being called an inspiration. I imagine he’d be equally irritated by tears or words like ‘bravery’, ‘courage’, ‘triumph of spirit’ and the like. And it’s understandable, as that kind of talk rarely fails to sound insincere at worst, or condescending at best. But ...
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• The Dude Abides: The Gospel According to the Coen Brothers

  
  Reading Copy Book Blog — Authority: 516
  I love the Coen Brothers. My favourites are probably Fargo , The Hudsucker Proxy and O Brother, Where Art Thou? . But my VERY favourite is without a doubt The Big Lebowski . These are the movies I buy, knowing that yes, I really will watch them again and again. And I’m not alone. There’s an almost-reverence ...
  2 weeks ago

• Literary New Year’s Resolutions

  
  Reading Copy Book Blog — Authority: 516
  A Huffington Post entry today found Celeste Ng talking about her New Year’s resolutions, specifically in regard to her reading habits. I like that idea. She and I sound like similar readers, so mine might be similar, but I’ll give it a go. And for those who remember (I can’t find the blog entry - blast!), I ...
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• Most Collectible Books of the Decade

  
  Reading Copy Book Blog — Authority: 516
  AbeBooks has compiled a list of the most collectible books published between 2000 and 2009. These hyper-modern books became collectible in a hurry. 1 The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. Rowling The original edition – there are only seven handmade copies. Our sister company, Amazon, purchased the only one ...
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• Literay salons back in fashion

  
  Reading Copy Book Blog — Authority: 516
  “I’m just nipping out down the literary salon,” is something said by authors like Louis de Bernières, Geoff Dyer and Jake Arnott, according to The Observer . Of course, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and the other Inklings in Oxford preferred to attend the literary pub - the Eagle and Child , which always used to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Weird Book Room Updated - Featured this Week “Talks With Trees”

  
  Reading Copy Book Blog — Authority: 516
  When the title says Talks With Trees , it really  means TALKS With Trees… and plants, and shrubs. Leslie Cabargo began speaking with plants after asking a potted plant how it was doing and the plant replied that it was experiencing some difficulties.  So you see, Cabargo isn’t like you or I - he ...
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• Book Quizzes - Literary Quiz about Snow

  
  Reading Copy Book Blog — Authority: 516
  In honour of the first flakes of snow that have been falling around here the last few days….the Guardian posted a quiz today on snow in literature. I got 11/14! Given how miserably I usually fare on the Guardian’s quizzes, I’m quite pleased. What about you? Quiz on Literary Snow
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• Happy birthday, Jane Austen

  
  Reading Copy Book Blog — Authority: 516
  Beloved English novelist Jane Austen was born on this day in 1775, which, if she were alive today, would make her…. 234. I wonder what she’d be writing about if she were still alive and writing? I often wonder what people from a long time ago would think if they were transported to the present instantly. I ...
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• Photographer Larry Sultan dies

  
  Reading Copy Book Blog — Authority: 516
  Photographer Larry Sultan died on Sunday at the age of 63. He’s famous for Evidence , a watershed modern art photography book of pictures of industrial and government archives co-authored with Mike Mandel. Yesterday, we sold a $2,500 first edition of Evidence. The book’s cover doesn’t really say much about ...
  3 weeks ago

• Do-it-Yourself/DIY Book Scanner

  
  Reading Copy Book Blog — Authority: 516
  A graduate student with ingenuity, time and an idea has made his own Do-it-yourself book scanner , and after the fact, made available his 79-step process so anyone can join in. He doesn’t make it sound too hard, either. “The hardware is ridiculously simple as long as you are not demanding archival ...
  3 weeks ago

• Weird Book Room Weekly Update Including A La Cart: The Secret Lives of Grocery Shoppers

  
  Reading Copy Book Blog — Authority: 516
  Hilary Carlip takes reading between the lines to a new level  in our Weird Book of the Week . In A la Cart: The Secret Lives of Grocery Shoppers she takes on the persona of shoppers based on grocery lists that she has found and interpreted based on things such as the handwriting and the items listed. This week ...
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• Handbags from Books, Take Three

  
  Reading Copy Book Blog — Authority: 516
  We’ve already linked to not just one , but two posts about creative people making purses and handbags from books (and I for one have lusted over them). The folks at Jacket Copy (the L.A. Times book blog) posted about purse-books, and included an instructional video (thank you, Youtube) on how to make your own, ...
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• Greg Mortenson’s New Book: Stones Into Schools

  
  Reading Copy Book Blog — Authority: 516
  If you’ve never read Greg Mortenson ’s book Three Cups of Tea (full title: Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time), you really should make the time for it. I’ll admit, the writing isn’t the strongest. But the thing is, once you get past the writing, you find ...
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• Rare book trading cards

  
  Reading Copy Book Blog — Authority: 516
  Between the Covers Rare Books are one of my favorite bookshops on AbeBooks and I am almost ashamed to admit that I didn’t know that they had issued three sets of Rare Book Trading Cards. Each set was designed as a catalogue of their finest items but put together in the same way sports trading cards are; with a ...
  3 weeks ago

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