From the monthly archives:

December 2009

Rare book trading cards

December 9, 2009
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Like the idea of dealing in rare books but can’t afford the real thing?
Looking for a Christmas gift for that rare book fan in your life who has everything?
Just like collecting anything to do with books.
Perhaps these rare book trading cards are just the thing you need.
Read all about them over at Book Patrol.

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Spiral bookshelf

December 8, 2009
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I quite like this shelf. Obviously not the choice for storing a huge number of books, but I’m a big fan of bookshelves being art themselves.
[quadelle sent me to apartment therapy to see it]

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Books about books

December 3, 2009

I often think I’d like to read more books about books, but I rarely end up getting on to them as so many great kids and YA books keep coming into the library.
Since I can’t recommend any to you myself, I thought I’d point you at Book Patrol’s top books about books for 2009. Certainly [...]

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Book mobile

December 2, 2009
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Another great artistic way to recycle books. The art is by Lisa Occhipinti, I read about it at Design Nova which was pointed out to me by Vetti (so long ago that she may well have forgotten about it).

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World’s smallest lending library?

December 1, 2009
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The people of Westbury-sub-Mendip in Somerset, England recently suffered a double blow when their public phone box was decommissioned and the mobile library service ceased to operate.
What were they do do? Surely the answer is obvious. They took ownership of the phone box through BT’s Adopt a Kiosk program and rather than turning into an [...]

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