Word cloud created from the “most read books” lists from a variety of libraries, booksellers, book web sites and other sources… (via Reddit)
Below are a couple photos I took in Havana during our 2011 trip to Cuba. This was a street vendor stall selling books (which is good!) but most here (and in our hotel’s gift shop or anywhere else we found books) were heavily propagandistic (bad!). Cuba isn’t commercialized with billboards selling blue jeans and soda but in its […]
I think someone just went wild with a thesaurus instead of trying to capture the style of McCarthy. But this is still an interesting attempt to capture McCarthy’s style of writing. They lift the kid by his blood-dimmed sweater and hang him on a coatrack. Madness on their faces. The mantis gone moronic. The squat’s tonsured head […]
May your resident librarian recommend a book to help you pass the next few weeks? 😉
So beginning tomorrow, I’m planning to have a 19 day series of posts with various thoughts and observations about the Canadian Federal Election. My politics are no secret and much of the content will be focused on reasons why the Conservative Party of Canada led by Stephen Harper has to go but I’m hoping I can […]
The site guessed 40 for me and I’m 42 so that’s pretty good. [Edit: it also guessed 35 for Shea and she’s 36 so pretty much bang on once again!]
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Posted 29 September 2015
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RPL is moving to a new ILS over the coming week which reminded me of the last move we had five years ago…
MyReadSpeed.com is a site that allows you figure out your reading speed. I tried on the sample from “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” and got 523 words per minute. Unfortunately, the site has no way to account for having two kids pestering you while you take the test! 😉
Libraries and file-sharing do not differ in principle. The purpose of libraries was – is – to make culture and knowledge available to as many as possible, as efficiently as possible, for free – simply because of the greater socioeconomic benefit of an educated and cultural populace. How is this not file-sharing? Great article that […]
