Caring for Rare Books
In this age of the Kindle and its ensuing host of other e-readers, we lovers of the printed page must appear increasingly antiquated to all those e-book addicts who walk around with thousands of digital copies of books on a single device weighing less than 1 lb. While that’s all very well and good, and I do a lot of reading on my iPad using both iBooks and the Kindle App, for me, nothing can compare to the experience of a real, solid book. I have quite an assortment of leather bound editions and hardbacks that have accumulated over the years. In some cases I have obtained copies of very rare books that are no longer in print and more than 100 years old. Taking care of books that are this old is important.
How to Ruin 50 Books Fast
What happens when a couple of guys hash out the details of 50 classic works of literature and pop lit, then try cramming the most important parts of them into a short, 4-minute clip? I don’t have a lot I can say about it without spoiling it for you. This is a hilarious, witty jaunt through some of the best books ever written that attempts to ruin them all with spoilers faster than you can flip a page. It’s very creative, extremely funny — but also, successful, and that means that if you do intend to read any of the books you’re about to hear all about, it would probably be best to skip this video until after you’ve caught up on your reading.
New Books
- Arms race and nuclear war / David P. Barash.
- Boston architecture, 1975-1990 / Naomi Miller, Keith Morgan.
- Bad blood : the Tuskegee syphilis experiment / James H. Jones.
- Novels and stories / Zora Neale Hurston.
- Fear and loathing in Las Vegas : a savage journey to the heart of the American dream / Hunter S. Thompson ; illustrated by Ralph Steadman.
