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Oakland librarian collects ephemera left behind Nobody knows how long the story of yearning and regret, hope and romance had been hidden away inside a book at the Oakland library, but there it was – a melancholy slice of two lives – spelled out on yellowed paper. “Remember, I love u sweetheart,” said the blunt Read More

Professors Test Fifty Shades of Grey Library Book, Find It Has Traces of Herpes Gross. Read more: Fifty Shades of Grey Tests Positive for Traces of Herpes Virus | TIME.com Gross. One more reason to read ebooks. Ew. By Jessica Roy jessicakroy​ Nov. 14, 2013 Two Belgian university professors decided to apply their knowledge of Read More

Jackie Treehorns (The House on the Rock) (by kern.justin) Read More

Are libraries offering enough self-published ebooks? | Digital Book World A self-published novel, The Bet by Rachel Van Dyken, was the best-selling ebook on Amazon and at Barnes and Noble during the week ending April 13, 2013. This statistic demonstrates a major shift in our literary ecosystem—self-published books have become culturally important. Our society is now Read More

Digital Library of America launched – Business – The Boston Globe This is an exciting new resource! Millions of digitized books, pictures, and manuscripts from the nation’s top public and academic libraries are now available in one spot. It isn’t Amazon or Google, and it’s free. The privately funded Digital Public Library of America was launched Thursday Read More

From a law library in the Netherlands: a sculpture created out of law books that have been written in, torn, or defaced in some way. Read More

Aside from its beauty, for me, the most astonishing thing about this library was its lack of climate control. Here there were 200,000 books—really old and, I presume, varying degrees of really precious—books. And they just opened the windows and let the lovely moist breezes blow in. In a way, it made me feel as Read More

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