- The walls of the Clock Shop in downtown Frankfurt, Germany, are lined with timepieces of every kind, from cuckoo clocks to digital watches. Its a testament to the stores 55-year history as a functioning business. (NPR News)
- The joy of reading will be celebrated at the first FREE Books without Borders, to be presented from 10 am to 4 pm, Saturday, June 9 at the Yonkers Riverfront Library, 1 Larkin Plaza, Yonkers. (PRLog (free press release))
- This week I tell you about Learning From the Octopus; Probability, Logic and several African bird field guidesI sometimes receive books in the mail, as review copies from publishers, as gifts from far-away friends and as my personal purchases. (Eureka! Science News)
- Taking inspiration from the team's own childhood favorites, 7 Speed Reading™ today announces the ten books they feel all children should read. (YAHOO!)
- Meeting the evolving needs of the industry, TSTC Publishing is partnering with Immediatag, a startup mobile tagging platform company to take their textbooks into the future. (YAHOO!)
- Yes, it makes your suitcase heavier. Yes, it takes up more space. But all the travel e-books and mobile app guides in the world put together are still less handy than a sturdy little guidebook you can hold in your hand. (Regina Leader-Post)
- Barnes Noble may have solved the problem of reading E Ink in the dark with its GlowLight, but digital books still have a long way to go for other reasons. Amazon, Barnes Noble, Kobo, and Sony, among others, have powered up their ebook stores lately. (PC Magazine)
- The government plans to move toxic assets on bank books into a real-estate holding entities by the summer. An independent body of real estate professionals would evaluate the assets and later sell them off. (Reuters)
- JOPLIN, Mo. — Books are near and dear to us at Geek Central: The Lovely Paula Hadsall and I got married in a used bookstore in Springfield. (Joplin Globe)
Friday, April 27, 2012
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