Looking for that perfect gift for the librarian in your family? I want this! It goes perfect with my book oriented desk-organizer.
Leather tissue boxes prove you can’t tell a book by its cover-look like a stack of valuable first editions! Have handcrafted leather “bindings” over wood, gold “pages,” hand-painted gold accents. Easy to refill-lift [...]

I mentioned TasteBook a while back and that I was disappointed to find that I couldn’t add my own pictures - well that has all changed! I got this email today:

With the new fancy e-book readers out it’s hard to resist the urge to buy one! I was chatting with a woman at an SLA event last night about the future of books. She told me that her kids (25 and younger) did not read. She had read to them their entire [...]

I wrote about Amazon Kindle last week and thought that it sounded like a neat tool. Since then I’ve read many reviews from colleagues and experts and I’m still not sure where I stand. I do have to say that Mary’s post has pushed me more toward the pro side than any other.
I’m [...]

Last week I wrote about my impressions of David Weinberger’s Everything is Miscellaneous. Well, this morning (around 2am) I finished the book and am so impressed! I love books that make me think - and Weinberger really left my head reeling.
In my role as Metadata Librarian I not only have to [...]

Do you think that this name has some hidden meaning? Turning your paperbooks into kindling? Anyway, Amazon’s Kindle looks awesome!! My only problem is that it doesn’t read PDF. Now, while I’m not a student anymore, I always wanted an e-book reader so I could read my lecture notes which were [...]

This weekend I saw/posted about the Sony E-book reader … now I read on Crunch Gear that it may not be as cool as it looks.
According to Gordon Meyer over at 43 Folders, the Sony PRS-505 eBook reader is pretty close to perfect until you try to drop a few PDF files onto it. “None [...]

After CIL last year I briefly mentioned that WorldCat was going to have a new service (WorldCat Identities). Well, this just in from the Outgoing blog:
Over the weekend WorldCat Identities went into production. Personal authors now have a link to their WorldCat Identity page under the Details tab.
As Thom Hickey mentions, it’s still [...]

This is not a review - so much as it is a review of points that have stuck with me from my reading of Everything is Miscellaneous by David Weinberger. I’m not done yet - but I can’t hold it in anymore - and my husband is tired of listening to me rant about [...]

Today I was in Borders on my way out the door with my Chai Latte (my favorite winter drink) when a techie toy caught my eye. It was the Sony Ebook Reader (PRS505/SC). I had read about these bad boys - but never seen one. As a librarian and a reader, I [...]

I am a cookbook junkie! Just search by LibraryThing library to see. Anyway, I just found TasteBook, a site that lets you make your own cookbook. My husband gets annoyed when I print out recipes and keep them all over the house So this sounded perfect! I started playing right away. [...]

We all know about print on demand services like LuLu and Blurb, but what if you could go to the local coffee shop, library or bookstore and print your book on demand?
If former Random House editorial director Jason Epstein has his way, as early as next year people will be able to order books online [...]

Yesterday at the NFAIS Humanities Roundtable, one talk was about the rules for making sure you get a good deal when having an outside company scan and use your library content. Today, I was pointed to an article in the New York Times comparing the Open Content Alliance partners with the Google Book Search [...]

Last night I was updating my wish list on Amazon and I know that the site didn’t look like it does this morning.

In the top right they invite us to see what’s new:

Looks prettly slick - guess I’ll need to poke around some and see if it’s more usable - since re-designs are all about [...]

This is just too cool. LibraryThing has added a new feature (and updated the layout of the site - I think).
Common Knowledge adds fields to every author and work, like:
* Author: Places of residence, Awards and honors, Agent
* Work: Important places, Character names, Publisher’s editor, Description
All-told there [...]

Google Books now has a My Library function where you can search Google Books and put items in your own library. You can also share your library link (here’s mine)
Your library has a public URL you can share with other people and even a feed. You can also write reviews, rate the books or [...]

I have finally made the leap! As I unpacked boxes (and boxes) of books I entered them into LibraryThing. My lifetime membership is going to come in handy (it has already helped me weed out duplicated from my collection). My focus was on entering the books (not organizing them) so my tags are [...]

I just read a post by Lorcan Dempsey about Good to great : why some companies make the leap–and others don’t by James Collins and it sounds like an interesting read. In a time when libraries are trying to Borderize themselves, it might be worth reading what Collins has to say.
We must reject the [...]

Via RSS Compendium Blog:
Penguin, the UK book publisher, has published a page containing its RSS feeds
This is very neat - mostly because when I lived in England they had a promotion going on. 1 pound classics. Penguin classics all cost £1 (approx $1.55 when I was there). I came home with so [...]

David Weinberger did a talk at Google about Everything is Miscellaneous. It borrowed a bit from the keynote I heard last year at KMWorld - and is just as exciting. I highly recommend that you watch it if you have some time to devote.
David is a great speaker and just draws you [...]

Last fall I wrote about David Weinberger’s keynote at KMWorld. He mentioned that a lot of what he was talking about would be in his upcoming book - Everything is Miscellaneous. After leaving that room I promptly added the book to my wishlist and waited patiently.
Well, the book has finally been [...]

My first (official) book review has been published in Info Career Trends.
I read Managing Change: A How-To-Do-It Manual for Librarians by Susan Carol Curzon. It was a handy guide and very timely considering the changes happening all around us. Read my review and if you like the way it sounds, read [...]

I was just introduced to a book (cd, dvd, game) price comparison site. Nothing new there - but BookPrice.com also lets you subscribe via RSS to your search results - something all sites with search should let you do!
Looking for a Harry Potter set to get caught up before the new book? Well [...]

Thanks Sarah for pointing this out to me!!
There’s a tool called RSStalker that lets you track price changes on Amazon by RSS. You can have feeds for your entire wishlist or a specific item.
Also, from the RSStalker site:
Amazon.com doesn’t advertise it, but they have a 30 day price drop policy. If you bought [...]

Not very library-related - but it is what I learned today. Today I learned that the cover to Harry Potter is out!! Check it out if you’re a fan.
[update] See the Today Show unveiling of the cover. [/update]