_lnfqknBdvU1qz4s3wo1_500. Library. Popular books Bookmarks on Delicious. Popular ebooks Bookmarks on Delicious. Archive Library Lets You Roll Your Books Home. Bookworms know that it isn’t easy to live a mobile life with a massive book collection.
If you’re not quite ready to donate excess texts or replace them with electronic versions, David Garcia Studio offers an innovative solution: Archive II, a circular bookshelf propelled by walking that is currently on exhibition at Denmark’s University of Roskilde Main Library. The bookshelf isn’t ideal for long trips, but we can’t think of a better solution if you need to, say, move down the street. According to Garcia, “The average reader can read about 240 words per minute. A 300 page book normally takes 9 hours to read, non stop. I you read while you walk, you can read a book in about 43 kilometers. In the above photo you can also see Garcia’s Archive I, a see saw-like “weight balance library” featuring a chair that elevates in response to the weight of books on the shelves. + David Garcia Studio Via Treehugger. 50 Most Influential Books of the Last 50 (or so) Years. In compiling the books on this list, the editors at SuperScholar have tried to provide a window into the culture of the last 50 years.
Ideally, if you read every book on this list, you will know how we got to where we are today. Not all the books on this list are “great.” The criterion for inclusion was not greatness but INFLUENCE. All the books on this list have been enormously influential. The books we chose required some hard choices. We also tried to keep a balance between books that everyone buys and hardly anyone reads versus books that, though not widely bought and read, are deeply transformative. 1. 2. 3. 4.
Manga farming. 12 Apr 2010 Tokyo-based artist Koshi Kawachi recently demonstrated his "Manga Farming" technique -- which uses old manga as a growing medium for vegetables -- by cultivating a crop of radish sprouts in an installation at the Matsuzakaya department store in Nagoya.
[Link: Koshi Kawachi] The Ateneo Grand Splendid Bookstore. Link: We just published our first Travel Book Argentinians are a famously literary people.
In coffee shops, parks, on the bus and even while walking down city streets, their heads are often buried in a book. So it’s only fitting that Buenos Aires can lay claim to one of the world’s most incredible book stores: the Ateneo Grand Splendid. Soon after we arrived, Jürgen asked what I wanted to do first in Buenos Aires. “ATENEO ATENEO!” First, let’s admire that name. Find your next book. ActuaLitté - Les univers du livre ActuaLitté.
Literature-Map - The tourist map of literature. Le pool Your books. Paradoxymoron. Making a Miniature Book : un album. BibliOdyssey. Corpus Libris. Project Gutenberg. Gallica digital library - Over a million books and documents accessible for free. Free Ebooks. Google Livres. Google Ngram Viewer. Wikibooks. Book lovers never go to bed alone. Booklover. Recently (as in the past year and a half) I have been in a reading slump.
I read here and there but haven’t been striving to read as much. This is kinda silly as I am studying Creative Writing and should be reading every day, thriving on literature. This hasn’t really kicked in yet.So, I would like to offer a prize? Rather a you help me, I help you? I want everyone to message a book that you adore, one that achingly resonates with you, one that you think might inspire me. Libraryland. Book. Book. Book. Bookshelf. BiblioVox. Ithèque.