Ever dreamed of going to a yard sale and finding a rare treasure worth a lot of money? Ben Marks explores the world of rare books on the Collectors Weekly website. ~ * ~ Needle-in-a-haystack stories are the caffeine of collecting. Who hasn’t heard a tale of someone finding a rare toy at a garage … Read more
Huckleberry Finn is one of those books that keeps on landing on the banned book lists. At first it was protested because of the friendship between a white boy and a black boy. It was too progressive. Now it gets banned for the opposite reason. It is too old fashioned and uses terms that were … Read more
This article By Eleanor Davis; Interview by Jeff MacGregor is off of the Smithsonian Magazine website, on November 12, 2015. ~ * ~ Comic books? Educational? The very idea is comical to anyone familiar with the 1954 Senate subcommittee investigation that linked juvenile delinquency to horror and crime comics. The politicians dealt the industry a staggering … Read more
This is awesome! You buy a book you want to read and a card embedded in the back of the book is your ticket good for a limited amounts of rides. What a great idea, more places should do something like this.
I feel like Stephan from Saturday Night Live, this article has everything! Boston, video games, libraries. I love it when my favorite worlds collide! Erin Blakemore lets us know what the connections are in today’s snippet from Smithsonian. ~ * ~ At first blush, “library” and “Fallout 4” don’t seem like they should belong in the … Read more
Have you heard of Aldus Manutius? If you ever read a print book, you owe him a lot! Barbie Latza Nadeau explains how this man was in the right place at the right time to change reading forever. ~ * ~ The Man Who Changed Reading Forever The Venetian roots of revolutionary modern book printer … Read more
I for one, welcome our new news writing robot overlords. Klint Finley lets us know what to expect. ~ * ~ This News-Writing Bot Is Now Free for Everyone The age of robot writers is upon us. The Associated Press uses software to generate news stories on corporate earnings reports. Fox auto-generates some sports recaps … Read more