Goku vs. Superman takes the flipbook to new heights
Watch Superman and Goku battle it out in this stout flipbook by Napper RK. Soundtrack included. via digg
View ArticleIKEA takes a bit out of Apple with their new ad campaign ‘bookbook’
Once in a while, something comes along that changes the way we live, a device so simple and intuitive, using it feels almost familiar. Introducing the 2015 Ikea catalog. It’s not a digital book or an...
View ArticleProject Hieroglyph: Helping turn Science Fiction toward Utopia
Project Hieroglyph is “a global collective of writers and researchers” whose aim is to turn the dystopian tide of recent science fiction toward creative inspiration. Born in 2011 from a Neal Stephenson...
View ArticleA Tectonic Pop-Up Book
The supercontinent Pangaea that connected South America and Africa broke apart 200 million years ago. What a better way to convey the moving and shaking of the earth within a physical object than...
View ArticleUnbinding the Book: A New Era of Book Creation
Kate Morrell Unbinding the Book is a collaboration between the independent publishing platform Blurb and the visual arts studio Jotta. The challenge: push the boundaries of how books can be...
View ArticleTake Poems Once a Day and call me in the morning: Deborah Alma – Emergency Poet
Meet Deborah Alma the Emergency Poet and mastermind of “the world’s first and only mobile poetic first aid service.” Dressed in white coat and stethoscope, Emergency Poet travels the UK in her 1970’s...
View ArticleWomen charged with arson for torching books at Tacoma library
She was a regular patron who was at the central branch of the Tacoma Public Library “virtually every day” with no history of trouble but on Saturday all that changed when she set fire to a shelf of...
View ArticlePlan C: The Book Side of Interstellar
Christopher Nolan’s latest film Interstellar is an epic experience. It’s length, coming in at just under 3 hours, is a salute to endurance (of both your body and the human race) and a supersonic...
View ArticleBarnes & Noble is going back to its roots, shifts focus back to print
Granted they just announced a new bundling program for the holiday season, ‘B&N Sync Up!’ where you can buy one or more paperbacks from a specially curated selection and get the NOOK Book digital...
View ArticleRequired Viewing: Toni Morrison does Colbert
“There is just the human race, racism is a construct” – Toni Morrison On recently rereading Beloved for the first time, being an American writer, racism and much more. 7 minutes of pure joy.
View ArticleA Little Free Library loving third-grader on the power of books
“They fuel our minds like cars and gas” – Madison I think we might have met the poster child for the Little Free Library phenomenon. Her name is Madison and she is a third grader at Wade Park, a...
View ArticleJames Patterson is pissed: Calls out Obama for book support
“There’s a book burning going on in America, You’re invited. Especially the kids. You see they’re shutting down your local bookstores. Shutting down libraries. Publishers are dying. American literature...
View ArticleStriver by Song Hyun Ju
On the Wall Up Close In Action Striver by Song Hyun Ju. LCD monitor, computer, German dictionary, servo motor, 2011
View ArticleWhat Darwin Saw: Sketchbooks from the voyage of the HMS Beagle added to...
Charles Darwin considered it to be one of the most formative journeys of his life. His diary and scientific journal of his time aboard the HMS Beagle, now best known as The Voyage of the Beagle, was a...
View ArticleBookshop Theater: A little “Misery” at Barnes and Noble
In 2011 Norfolk, Virginia’s The Generic Theater presented “a thrilling stage adaptation” of the Stephen King novel Misery. As part of the promotional festivities one of their actresses went to the...
View ArticleGoodnight Moon kicks off Jimmy Kimmel’s Book Club
Jimmy Kimmel likes to read and has always wanted to join a book club. Unfortunately most books are just too long for his busy schedule so Kimmel picks the perfect genre to fulfill his book club dream,...
View ArticleEggplant with books served up in this animation
For part of their work on a 2013 campaign for the IGA supermarket chain the folks at SHED served up a pretty amazing book-infused animation. The goal was to show off how knowledgeable the typical IGA...
View ArticleNew Hemingway wearables
The newest offering from Litographs, the company that creates literary merchandise where every “design emerges from the text of a book,” is derived from a pair of Hemingway novels. The Sun Also...
View ArticleComputer-assisted cooking: IBM puts Chef Watson to work
Remember a few years back when IBM’s incredible computing machine Watson appeared on the television quiz show Jeopardy!? Well, like most technologies a lot has changed since then. Watson’s system...
View ArticleUptown Funk at the Library
For National Library Week the crew at Pogona Creative and the Orange Public Library in association with Chapman University took the runaway hit by Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars and gave it the book...
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