An instructor left a New York Times article about the HP Lexicon lawsuit on my desk over the weekend because he thought I might be interested. It always amuses me when people at work point me to stories that I've already discovered via fandom ( Read more... )

My favorite library linkspam blog brought me the following tidbits:

* The best novels you've never read, as listed by New York Magazine.

* Is it a PSA extolling the joys of reading, or is it an ad for a library self-checkout machine? You decide!* More book banning madness: A Canadian library decides to ban the His Dark Materials series. On what ( Read more... )

T sent me a link to the Espresso Book Machine, a vending machine at the New York Public Library that will print and bind, for free, a book. Not just any book, of course -- for now it's limited to titles that are in the public domain or held by the Open Content Alliance. But still, we're talking hundreds of thousands of books ( Read more... )