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Author Archives: Brian D. Butler
Take a closer look at your library
Libraries Ireland has launched a new national advertising campaign asking everyone to “Take a Closer Look” at what their local library has to offer. A new video features real libraries and librarians and is part a wider national strategy to increase library … Continue reading
Reading Pavilion
Located in the heart of Mumbai, in the gardens of the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya Museum, the BookWorm Pavilion was designed as an outdoor reading space and library for both children and adults. The peaceful library is an impressive … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Asia, Books, Libraries
Tagged India, literacy, Mumbai, Reading
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What Every Traveler Needs
One thing that all travelers have in common is the need to find toilet facilities in a timely manner. These days, even when one can discover convenient facilities, a numerical code is necessary to use the bathroom. Then there is … Continue reading
Posted in Europe, Public Transport, Restaurants, Tourism, USA
Tagged Brooklyn, London, Manhattan, NYC, Philadelphia
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Welcome to Bookshop!
Last week, a new online book retailer model launched the beta version of its innovative site.Indeed, Bookshop.org has gone live with the mission to “financially support independent bookstores and give back to the book community.” Founded by the publisher and entrepreneur … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Bookstore Tourism, USA
Tagged Amazon, Bookselling, Bookstores, indie bookstores
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Is This The Prequel You’ve Been Waiting For?
Suzanne Collins, author of the blockbuster best-selling, major-motion-picture-adapted Hunger Games trilogy, has done what most writers of runaway best-selling, major-motion-picture-adapted book series eventually do, and has gone and written a prequel. The prequel, titled The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, is … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Film, movies, Writing
Tagged Hunger Games, Publishing, Suzanne Collins, YA novels
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Book a bed at the BookBar
The next time that I visit Denver, I will definitely be staying at the BookBar’s BookBed. The AirBnB rental is a spacious 1896 one-bedroom apartment located above popular book store and wine bar, BookBar. This vacation rental is owned by … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Bookstore Tourism, Hotels, Tourism, USA
Tagged Bookstore Tourism, Colorado, Denver
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Street Smart
Andrei Kashcha’s City Roads tool will draw you a map of just the roads in any city around the world. Beware map geeks: Down the rabbit hole.
Australia Needs Your Help
Australi-Aid has partnered with over 40 incredible artists to create a beautiful collection of postcards to support wildfire recovery. You can support the effort by purchasing some of the wonderful original artwork on their website. They have selected two organizations … Continue reading
Wild Horses
Chances are if you have ever visited Sweden you came home with at least one souvenir Dala wooden horse. When American street artist Shai Dahan moved to Sweden a few years ago to live and work, he decided that the … Continue reading
Not Available in Paperback
The Louisiana State University Special Collections Library has recently announced an exciting new acquisition. This is a rare copy of Hartmann Schedel’s The Nuremberg Chronicle, printed in 1493 in Germany, in the city that gives the work its name. This incunabula represents one of … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Libraries, Maps, Writing
Tagged Germany, Incunabula, Publishing and Printing
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