The Favorite Thing Ever site just put up an entry on The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and now I feel like I gotta get a Kindle. I never felt that way before, but I'm sold.

Pan Books published the novel as a paperback in October 1979 after the BBC turned it down, and it sold 250,000 in the first three months ( Read more... )

Sooo, like, I went out and got me some Cambridge Culture, and it was awesome! I saw this:

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That's the preview for Alice Vs. Wonderland! ( I wrote a detailed review for chelseagirl47; probably tl;dnr for most of you! )

From fajrdrako, a link to A Christmas Carol written in Dickens' own hand. They even show you the bits he edited from the printed novel -- Dickens disses Shakespeare's Hamlet! He wrote, then scratched out the following:

Perhaps you think that Hamlet's intellects were strong. I doubt it. If you could have such a son tomorrow, depend upon it, you would find ( Read more... )

You know what's cool? Having books on Library Thing where you are the only person who has that book.

I seem to have cornered the market in snarky Alice in Wonderland satire of a bygone age:


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Three days, three shelves, 106 books ( Read more... )

I have discovered Library Thing, where you can "Catalog Your Books Online."

This may take a while.

I am a super-huge fan of buyolympia.com - here's a description of who they are from their website:

We're a small, three-person operation located in Portland, Oregon. We started back in 1999 in Olympia, Washington as a way to help our friends sell their awesome handmade items online, and have since grown to have a lot more friends from all over ( Read more... )

This morning, neadods posted a couple of reviews of kinda-not-so great mystery books she'd read, and her reviews made me want to snark the last few mystery books I've read, too. So, I shall snark away ( Read more... )

Books! Another Meme.
Gakked from neuralclone

What we have here is the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded. Bold the ones you've read, italicise the ones you own but haven't read, underline the ones you started but didn't finish. (I'm going to strike-through ( Read more... )