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e-books are bad for you?

Rikki — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 14:48:15 +0000

While stumbling around the net I came across this short article about how bad e-books are for your brain – supposedly. Should I be worried, ?

This is the original (longer) article on The Christian Science Monitor.

Which book to read today?

Rikki — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:37:43 +0000

If you are unsure what to read today you might want to have a look at Whichbook. Choose the content, length, etc. with various sliders and see what suggestions whichbook comes up with. It links to an excerpt and lists similar books as well. Worth a try if you are desperate.

Read at Work! Now it’s even easier.

Rikki — Sun, 31 May 2009 06:49:33 +0000

I stumbled about this absolutely brilliant website yesterday. If you want to read at work, but are afraid that you get caught red handed, just have a look at Read at Work! It looks like Windows XP and all texts are organized in folders on the desktop. Emily Dickinson or F. Scott Fitzgerald as Powerpoint presentations need a bit getting used to, but they do look pretty impressive to your boss, I bet.

“Boys fix things. Girls need things fixed.” Is that so, now?

Rikki — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:34:49 +0000

Today I stumbled around a bit and found an extraordinary book along the way. The owner of My blahg posted this book called “I’m glad I’m a boy! I’m glad I’m a girl!” from 1970 (that’s the most amazing thing about it. It should be from the 50s really). You can have a look at all the pages over there.

A lot of people got worked up about it in the comments, how chauvinistic, sexist, discriminating, yadda, yadda it is. I just think it’s very amusing.

Anyway, some really funny lines are the ones I used in the title of this post or “Boys are policemen. Girls are metermaids.” “Boys can eat. Girls can cook.” “Boys build houses. Girls keep houses.” Yeah, you didn’t know that, did you? Isn’t that just awesome? This absolutely made my day. I’m easy to please, aren’t I.

I stumbled upon… # 5

Rikki — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:52:01 +0000

A few nice and interesting web sites I found on the net.

The top ten literary hoaxes
Find out more about some stories too good to be true.

Untitled
A poem

The saddest bear of all
A short story with beautiful illustrations

Two sentences
Too bad they are only two sentences. I’d like to know more now.

A beautiful revolution
Doodles "buffeted by misery, dejection and angst, are tentative explorations of social and deep psychological disquiet." (The Big Issue, UK). Not to be missed!

I stumbled upon…#4

Rikki — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 17:20:43 +0000

Today I stumbled upon…

An anthology of Middle English Literature. You can spend hours and hours there. Lots to discover.

What do Harry Potter and Luke Skywalker have in common? Find it out here.

If you use Windows Live Writer, this might be helpful:

I stumbled upon…#3

Rikki — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:14:05 +0000

Today I stumbled upon…

this Fortune cookie. Love it.

Want to hide something? How to make a hollow book to create a little place for your screts.

Just some Handsome books to look at.

Don’t like the happy Disney fairy tales? Here are some Gruesome fairy tale origins with not so friendly endings.

Lots of free books can be found at manybooks.net. Among them is one of my favourites, "The enchanted April". They are all downloadable in a lot of different formats.

I stumbled upon…#2

Rikki — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:36:08 +0000

Today I stumbled upon…

…an entry about the book "Bibliotheken" (Libraries) by Candida Höfer at The Nonist. The book contains photos of libraries from all over the world. The pictures are pure eye candy. On top of it the book contains an essay by Umberto Eco, a treat in itself.

If you would like to know more about Edgar Allen Poe, go to Knowing Poe.

No time to read at home? Nothing to do during your your commute? Receive books in small installments by daily email or RSS feed from Dailylit.

Want to create your own bookmarks by folding beautiful paper? Here are two videos with how-to’s for Origami bookmarks
Origami bookmark 1
Same bookmark, but animated video

I stumbled upon… #1

Rikki — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:58:36 +0000

I only discovered stumble upon recently and found some interesting things through it, that’d like to share.

The Forbidden Library. There I learned the most astonishing fact about "The Lorax" by Dr. Seuss. The book was challenged in some California town school district for criminalizing the foresting industry. Truth is: "The Lorax" is a book every child should know, the earlier the better.

The 100 best novels at the Modern Library. They have two lists, the board’s list and the reader’s’ list. Imagine my surprise when I discovered on the reader’s list "Guilty Pleasures" by LKH among books like "The Great Gatsby", "I, Claudius" or "A town like Alice". Guilty Pleasures? This must be a cruel joke!

If you would like to display your books UNDER a shelf instead of on top of it, go to Instructables for the instructions on how to build an inverted book shelf.

The fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm can be found here. If you dare to read them, that is. After all the fairy tales were restricted to sixth to eighth grade classes at an Arizona elementary school in 1994 due to its excessive violence, negative portrayals of female characters, and anti-Semitic references (source: Forbidden Library).