From a (very entertaining) intro to a readers’ advisory service on The Morning News:
It is important to draw a distinction between Amazon’s “Customers Also Bought” feature and the Biblioracle. Amazon is primarily constituted of servers and processors and computer programs. Amazon employs only seven actual human beings plus Jeff Bezos, who is a cyborg. The Biblioracle is flesh and blood.
Quite spendy at $65 a pop but couldn’t they make for a great YS program?
Just in case, you can buy them from Ferrol Studio.
I’d love to see a coastal library set up a permanent book exchange like this. Has it been done?
From a series of posters for the WPA Illinois art project Be Kind To Books. The series of five posters is up for auction in May and are expected to go for $1500-$2000.
There’s a sweet quarter scale model of the Eames Design Office up for auction. Check out the cute furniture!
This image puts the size of the model in context.
More photos are available at MONDOBLOGO.
Okay, folks. File this one under “I’m using my site to rant” and/or “Clearly there are more important things to think about.”
In a restaurant the other night I noticed these things. Instead of peeling back the paper to expose more crayon , one twists the plastic around the crayon. I understand that these keep the crayons the same size, sure, but doesn’t it seem a bit much?
Let’s look back at when crayons were crayons and the packaging wasn’t gross.
Ah, the oft coveted box of 64 with built-in sharpener.
By the way, get off my lawn.
Tiny books in the shape of cigarette packs. Complete and unabridged!
Photographs from Paul Octavious:
