News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff
Book News
- World Read Aloud Day is Feb. 24 (LitWorld)
- Unseen JRR Tolkien poems found in school magazine from 1936 (The Guardian; also New York Times)
- 2015 sees opening of 60 indie bookstores (Publishers Weekly)
- Appeals court affirms Apple ebook-pricing settlement (Publishers Weekly)
- New York Public Library opens Shakespeare exhibit focused on the plays in America through the centuries. (NYPL) Speaking of Shakespeare…
- The British Library to host “Shakespeare in Ten Acts” exhibit (British Library)
Worth Reading
- How the Smithsonian is Crowdsourcing History (Atlas Obscura)
- Robots Read Books to Learn Right and Wrong (Anthony Cuthbertson, Newsweek) Using stories to teach AIs empathy and ethics.
- The Forgotten Books (books published in the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s). Library Huntress talks about moving out of her recent-release comfort zone to try some older books at the library.
- For Deborah Harkness fans, an unofficial guide to All Souls trilogy sites in Oxford. It’s a PDF, so it may take a little while to load.
Awesome Lists
- What Does Your Bookmark Say About You? (Chronicle Books Blog)
- The 73 best kids’ books of all time for families (TimeOut: New York Kids) I don’t always agree with these lists, but this one has a lot of my favorites on it — which makes me want to try some of the ones I haven’t read yet. Ignore the rankings and enjoy.
Really Cool / Just for Fun
The Great British Television Map, designed by Tim Ritz.
Map of British TV – where shows take place, and sometimes where they’re filmed, designed by Tim Ritz. Click image for larger version.
Leatherbound Harry Potter books made by PeskyCat Papercraft (Meg Krampf) (via Nerdist)
Leatherbound Harry Potter books with Horcrux bookmarks (Nerdist) One-of-a-kind, handbound by Meg Krampf of PeskyCat Papercraft. Each handbound volume has a removable horcrux bookmark on the front, and a wand along the spine. Just wow. (via Nerdist)
Bookish Quote
That’s it for this week!
Katherine @ I Wish I Lived in a Library
Those leather bound HP books are gorgeous! I’ll have to check out the 73 best kid’s books. I enjoy them and the Tornado and I are reading chapter books at bedtime and I’m always looking for new books! That’s great about the 60 new Indie bookstores! I’m not entirely surprised. I feel like there’s a growing movement for smaller and more personal versus just bigger and faster.
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Stephanie
That map of British TV Land is awesome:0)!
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Rita @ View From My Home
I’m always interested in news about JRRT, and I loved the link to Library Huntress’ discussion on older books. I follow her, but must have missed this one and it interested me as a library scavenger! Thanks.
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Lark_Bookwyrm
Oh, I’m glad to have pointed you to that discussion, then!