As a follow-up to last week’s FFL about Book Mooch, here’s a link to Book Thing, a non-profit organization in Baltimore which offers all of the books it has in stock for free to local citizens.
Book Mooch is a new web site which helps facilitate the exchange of used books you no longer need for books you really want, all for the cost of postage. (via MetaFilter)
A writer in the UK has released Abracadabra!, a free e-book about the Beatles’ “Revolver” album on the 40th anniversary of that LP being released. If you’re more interested in the public sharing of information than the Beatles, you might also want to check out “In the Public Interest: The Future of Canadian Copyright Law” […]
This is about as “fun” as the Friday Fun Links get… Carl Monday, an investigative reporter at a TV station in Cleveland recently did an extremely sensationalistic sweeps-week sting operation (link to video clip) where he used a hidden camera to catch a twenty-something man masturbating at the local public library on a public access […]
The National Film Board of Canada has put a bunch of their classic animated shorts online for free viewing. The Big Snit is required viewing for all Canadians.
“Incunabula or incunables are the very first examples of books, pamphlets, and broadsides printed with moveable type in Western Europe. They range from the very first examples of the two-column Latin Bible produced by Johann Gutenberg in the 1450s to works printed through the end of the year 1500. The term “incunable” derives from the […]
One of the great things about doing a weekly fun link targetted at librarians is that I can basically link to anything interesting I find since it’s all information and librarians tend to be interested in…information. This week’s link is one of this type – not directly related to libraries or librarians but very cool […]
Book Burro is a Firefox extension that adds quick & easy comparison shopping ability for all your book buying needs. (via Ubuntu Essentials)
This isn’t exactly a “fun” link but this photo has been making the rounds of various library blogs (not sure where I first saw it so I can’t give credit unfortunately) Here’s the photo. Flickr has a few others plus some discussion you might want to check out as well.
A Flickr photoset of the things a library volunteer finds on the book cart or stuffed in books in the prison where they volunteer: Jail finds – a photoset on Flickr (via Librarian.net)
