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6 days ago by Keonyn

I’ve always been a bit of a Civil War buff, so it was only natural that I should read this book. After being a bit disappointed by my last read, I decided I needed a book that I knew I would enjoy, and this was the clearest choice when scanning my shelf of books yet [...]

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21 days ago by ajenakom

วันว่าง ๆ ผมกะว่าจะมาแนะนำบลอกของห้องสมุดต่างประเทศที่ผมทำลิงค์ไว้ในหน้าบลอก Raw Librarian ของผมให้ทุกท่านได้รู้จักกันมากขึ้นน่ะครับ อันจะเป็นการช่วยย่อยและดึงองค์ความรู้มาเสนอแบบ Direct Sale กันเลยทีเดียว แต่ไม่รู้ว่าจะได้สาระจริง ๆ อย่างที่ว่าไว้หรือเปล่า วันนี้ลองเข้าที่ LibraryCrunch ครับ เห็นบร ...

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37 days ago by Libby

Congratulations to Kavya Shivashankar for winning the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Watch this video by the incredibly talented and imaginative Evelien Lohbeck. Oh my goodness. My dorm room certainly never looked like Maximilian Sinsteden's dorm room. View the film from the 1930's on Yale's You Tub ...

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40 days ago by molnarandras

After the MicroBlogging project, I start a new one. It is RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification). Of course the most important in this project that how can we use this technology in the library. The number of the digital documents growing rapidly, but the traditional books will never die. (I hope) So ...

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69 days ago by Alisa

circa 1933 What I wouldn’t give for 95 cent books today. Of course, it’s not quite as good a deal as it first appears to the modern tightwad. In 1933, 95 cents was anywhere from $15.78 to $99.11 in today’s dollars. (Comparing dollars across the ages is tricky, see why here.) $15.78 makes this yummy ...

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94 days ago by Chad W. Post

I remember when the Modern Library first published Iraj Pezeshkzad’s My Uncle Napoleon a few years, but this review by Bryn Haworth makes it sound really interesting. (When Byrn writes about the book itself. The stuff about today’s Iran is good, but this novel sound intriguing to me for other, more ...

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101 days ago by Widmerpool

Lydia Kiesling Hallo, friends. I would like to apologize for the dearth of entries in the past week, and to make an exciting announcement. “IRL,” my name is Lydia, and I have done three guest posts under that name for fancy literature blog The Millions. (This is not a secret, obviously; I have linke ...

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109 days ago by Widmerpool

[Sir] V[idiadhar] S[urajprasad] Naipaul I think it is pointless to condemn books solely because the writer was some variety of wretch. But I have done so if I think it will create a smoke-screen for the fact that I did not understand the book. If I liked it, I am inclined to be more relaxed, to make ...

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111 days ago by Widmerpool

Sinclair Lewis Is at The Millions.

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114 days ago by Widmerpool

Vladimir Nabokov Lolita is a Big Deal. Since the day it first appeared in its unobtrusive green wrappers it has given rise to a sustained, high-pitched keening sound — the sound of everyone freaking right out. It has inspired people to write essays with many words in them. It has inspired people to ...

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