[books] - Penguin Modern Classics Obsession Part Two
Cara Barer Photographer (3 galleries worth)
Laser-cut art book by Olafur Eliasson
The E. Lingle Craig Preservation Laboratory - Repair and Enclosure Treatment Manual
If you read Kurt Vonnegut when you were young
swissmiss: feel like rearranging your books? that's a horrifying stack.
How and Why Wonder Books. i can smell them already.
Venezuela's four-legged mobile libraries
[Thanks for the prod netami. regular irregularity shall resume shortly...)
[books] - Bibliochaise
Bookshelves - 30 of the Most Creative Designs
How to Make a Handbag from a Book
[books] - Hot Library Smut and the babeswithbooks blog
BibliOdyssey: The Heart Bulletin, Alvin Lustig's covers, Spirit Books, and Otis Artbooks
Penguin book covers and TheBookDesignReview's Favorites of 2006
Thomas Allen's Book Art and Scott Teplin's Book Art
25 Greatest Science Books of All Time (and the 51 best magazines of all time)
[books] - The Agrippa Files
A batch from the always excellent BibliOdyssey:
The Heart Bulletin
Alvin Lustig
Otis Artbooks
Opera Omnia scientific illustrations
Pierre Ouvrard Master Bookbinder
"Covers is dedicated to the appreciation of book cover design."
Kircher’s Mathematical Organ. It's a swiss army lectern!
[books] - Ware's Candide. Chris Ware does fabulously detailed illustrations. I'm not a fan of his writing, but I love his artwork.
a new novel by Paul Ford of Ftrain.com is out: Gary Benchley, Rock Star
also, Adam Greenfield's new book: Everyware : The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing
Flickr: Photos tagged with library and The Bookshelf Project Pool (via)
I've been reading With Borges, Griffin and Sabine, and Going Postal, and rereading Good Omens and Haroun and the Sea of Stories.
[books] - Commonplace books, "a book in which noteworthy quotations, comments, poems, etc, are written".
The Whiskey River Commonplace Book
more online examples: Identity Theory, The Constant Reader, Scott McLemee, Risa, Bret Mulligan, Watermark, boren.nu
Maya's Micronomicon. the notebook is a crypticly dense compilation of diary, quotes, sketches, notations and lists.
articles: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library: Exhibitions, Yale Bulletin, Residential College Tips, U of Delaware
meta: The Lyceum, j.jacobs
see also: Marginalia (images)
[audiobooks] - The Medium is the Massage - Marshall McLuhan (1968). one of the greatest books ever. this is the vinyl variant. (previously linked origin of title)
Greylodge also hosts audiobooks of
... Neuromancer by William Gibson (as read by gibson) and The Man in the High Castle By Philip K. Dick (bittorrent).
... the The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - The original radio series (Primary and Secondary Phases), The Tertiary Phase, and The Quandary and Quintessential Phases.
...Manufacturing Consent - Noam Chomsky and the Media (1993) (search for 'chomsky' at chomskytorrents for lots more audio and video)
...The Day the Universe Changed - James Burke (host of the tv show Connections)
also by James Burke, a fun, high-paced, 1 hr lecture on The Knowledge Web (gets rolling at about the 7 minute mark (streaming realaudio only))
... also lectures by Hunter S. Thompson - Boulder CO, 1977
and Douglas Adams - Parrots, The Universe and Everything
plus see How to enjoy audiobooks : Lifehacker
[books] - eBay Motors: 1968 GMC Gernstenslager Bookmobile. oh. oh. ow. want. (via the scrummy writeup at hooptyrides)
BBC - Rewriting the rules of publishing. About Lulu.com, which sounds like one of the better Self-publishing, Print on demand ventures.
old, but related: in 2002, the Internet Archive Bookmobile let you print and bind your own (public domain) book (article). The idea has since spread to developing countries. And hopefully soon, to a library near you.
At one Swedish library, you can borrow books - and a lesbian (via)
it can go on my list alongside everything from emigre and thedesignersrepublic.com, and everything by the two publishers that make me drool at my local bookstore currently: phaidon and taschen.