Friday, April 27, 2012

Booksi

  • 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)

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