Check out this old-timey e-reader from How to Be a Retronaut (via Tor.com):    An illustration student, Rachel Walsh at Cardiff School of Art & Design, made it when assigned the following project: ‘“Explain something modern/internet-based to someone who lived and died before 1900”. This is her (brilliant) attempt to explain the Kindle to Charles Dickens.  Well, I…

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Halloween’s only 15 days away and I’m almost as excited for All Hallow’s Read as I am for candy and wrestling my cat into a costume! All Hallow’s Read = another great idea from Neil Gaiman. I picked up Neverwhere from a Waterstone’s on Fleet Street in real London (feels like so long ago!) and riding the…

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Banning books is bad. But… From the amazing FYA: Let’s All Ban Some Books Red Badge of Courage… still makes me laugh.

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Just a wee post. I wanted to share this with anyone who hasn’t come across it yet. Enjoy, and be amazed… So utterly beautiful. There’s nothing else to say. Nothing needs to be said. Except that this is the only time I have ever been a fan of the destruction of books. I think you’ll agree.

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