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Friday Fun Link – Free MP3 Audio Books (March 23, 2007)

LoudIt.org offers free MP3 audio books of classic works that you can download or read long with onscreen. (via MetaFilter)

CBC Says My IQ Is…

Your IQ = 130.Here are my scores.  Language 11/12Memory 5/6Logic 12/12Visual Memory 5/6Math 10/12Perception 9/12Some random thoughts (may contain spoilers so why not do the quiz then come

Is the DVD Shelf replacing the Bookshelf?

(This is just a random picture I grabbed off Flickr.  Not a photo of the DVD collection of anyone I know.) Something I've noticed more frequently when visiting

Is There A "Universal" Book – Some Follow-Up

It's funny – you do a post you think will get lots of responses and then, ..not really.  But then you do a bit of a throwaway post

Universal Books?

Last night, while thinking about the vast publishing industry and the fact that you could never read even a fraction of the books published each year, even in

The Impact of Having a Librarian Doing Your Reader's Advisory…

Bush's wife is a librarian for anybody who doesn't know.  (Now if she could just teach him to pronounce “eclectic”…)Oh, and I'm tagging this with “humour” but really,

FTRW 2007 – A Couple Last Notes on Freedom to Read Week

When I uploaded my FTRW interview to YouSendIt a couple days ago, I didn't realise they now required you to set-up an account before downloading files (boo!)  Quinn

Friday Fun Link – Scribd (March 9, 2007)

Scribd is a new site attempting to be the “YouTube of documents.” It currently accepts .doc, .ppt, .txt, .pdf, .xls, .ps, .lit, .cia and .nhl file formats (just

Kiss Your Keyboard and Mouse Goodbye?

This is very possibly how you will interact with your computer in the near future.  Wow.(Quinn, who has a great post today on why he blogs, found it

FTRW 2007 – Day 7 – An Overview of Canadian Book Challenges in 2006

Here's something that was posted to the Canadian Library Association mailing list this week that's a fitting way to end my week of FTRW posts: the results of

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