LJBook is a free (at least for now) service that offers to turn your blog into a book. That’s right, a few clicks and you can take your blog from an online site to a printed .pdf that you can hold in your hands. I haven’t tried it, although I probably would have if it […]

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I was finding The Satanic Verses a wee bit heavy so I picked up The Robber Bride, a novel that has been sitting on my To Read shelf for quite some time. I thought I would update my reading list on All Consuming and happened to notice that they provide links to RSS feeds from […]

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Some of you may recall that in early December I had posted the first release of The Library of Congress and the Cultural Property Office of the US Department of State Mission To Baghdad Report on the National Library and the House of Manuscripts from their visit during October 27-November 3, 2003. […]

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Roll out Google Print (BETA):
Google’s mission is to provide access to all the world’s information and make it universally useful and accessible. It turns out that not all the world’s information is already on the Internet, so Google has been experimenting with a number of publishers to test their content online. During this trial, publishers’ […]

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eBook News:
netLibrary 2004 is coming soon! Based on recent usability testing and customer feedback, we have re-engineered our site to provide you and your patrons with improved reliability, greater performance, a more intuitive interface, and non-English language capability. With literally hundreds of enhancements, netLibrary 2004 offers the tools and resources you need to enhance the […]

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The Rosetta Project’s collections currently contain about 2,000 antique children’s books which were published in the 19th and early 20th century. We shall be putting these combined collections on line as funding permits. Our current goal of putting 2,000 volumes on line will create an online library of aproximately 65,000 html pages. However, as […]

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Glenn Fleishman is a guy with a lot of regrets, or at least one BIG regret that he’s not going to forget anytime soon. Fleishman, looking for a way to boost sales of his book, decided he would make it available to the public as a free download - you know, to get people interested. […]

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Today was a complete blur, which upon some reflection, seems now to have consisted of nothing more than fuzzy, fleeting memories and recollections of bottomless email inboxes, mountains of paper, and endless streams of anxiety causing events. Put your cursor in the middle of this webpage and you might have an idea of how close […]

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You may wish to add this book to your wishlist: Libracide - “Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings,” declared German poet Heinrich Heine. Libricide identifies the regime-sponsored, ideologically driven and systemic destruction of books and libraries in the twentieth century that often served as a prelude or accompaniment […]

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