“In March read”
12 weeks ago by M.Leddy
“In March read the books you’ve always meant to read”: a WPA poster.
books
reading
WPA
12 weeks ago by M.Leddy
“People are getting rid of bookshelves”
february 2012 by M.Leddy
J.L. Sathre on unning a bookstore.
books
bookstores
february 2012 by M.Leddy
Barnes & Noble v. Amazon (2)
february 2012 by M.Leddy
The New York Times reports that Barnes & Noble bookstores will not stock Amazon-published books.
books
bookstores
february 2012 by M.Leddy
Barnes & Noble v. Amazon
january 2012 by M.Leddy
“Using the bookstore to sell e-books makes it unnecessary to go to the bookstore, except to use it as a library or life-sized catalogue, or to have coffee.”
books
bookstores
january 2012 by M.Leddy
Print as the new vinyl
january 2012 by M.Leddy
From an e-mail by an “industry insider”: “Long-term there’s no future in printed books.”
analog
books
digital
vinyl
january 2012 by M.Leddy
“Inside Amazon’s warehouse”
september 2011 by M.Leddy
“Only one of the employees interviewed described it as a good place to work.”
Amazon
books
work
september 2011 by M.Leddy
Banned Books Week
september 2011 by M.Leddy
Celebrating the freedom to read.
books
censorship
reading
september 2011 by M.Leddy
Overheard
september 2011 by M.Leddy
“I hate books that you have to read from cover to cover.”
books
bookstores
overheard
september 2011 by M.Leddy
Borders to close
july 2011 by M.Leddy
“For months now, the online welcome message from my nearby Borders has seemed tinged with pathos.”
books
bookstores
july 2011 by M.Leddy
A secret location on the Upper East Side
july 2011 by M.Leddy
A three-minute film by Andrew David Watson about a used-book store in a Manhattan apartment.
books
bookstores
NewYorkCity
july 2011 by M.Leddy
Romney Wordsworth, obsolete
july 2011 by M.Leddy
Fifty years ago, a world without librarians and libraries was the stuff of a totalitarian nightmare. Now it seems that we’re closer to living in The Twilight Zone.
books
library
television
july 2011 by M.Leddy
Two goose books
june 2011 by M.Leddy
In 1994, George Bodmer made a picture book for his daughter. And now she has made one for him.
art
books
june 2011 by M.Leddy
“Share Curiosity. Read Together.”
april 2011 by M.Leddy
With apologies to H.A. Rey, Margret Ray, and the gummint.
books
DavidFosterWallace
reading
april 2011 by M.Leddy
Most frequently challenged books
april 2011 by M.Leddy
“The logic of book-banners would seem to dictate that the Penguin House itself be closed to children, no?”
books
culture
reading
april 2011 by M.Leddy
Amazon Kindle with Euphemism
april 2011 by M.Leddy
Amazon has introduced a cheaper Kindle with Euphemism.
books
reading
april 2011 by M.Leddy
Garry Wills review
march 2011 by M.Leddy
Of Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly’s All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age.
books
classics
march 2011 by M.Leddy
For dummies
march 2011 by M.Leddy
A Google search that led someone to Orange Crate Art: the mixed up files of Mrs basil e. Frankweiler for dummies.
books
Google
reading
march 2011 by M.Leddy
A Borders executive on Borders
march 2011 by M.Leddy
Six reasons for Borders’ bankruptcy
books
bookstores
march 2011 by M.Leddy
Borders files for bankruptcy
february 2011 by M.Leddy
The Wall Street Journal reports that Borders Group Inc. has filed for bankruptcy.
books
bookstores
february 2011 by M.Leddy
Borders and bankruptcy
february 2011 by M.Leddy
“It’s sad: everything the company has done to bring in more money seems to give the dedicated reader less reason to feel good about going to Borders.”
books
bookstores
february 2011 by M.Leddy
On One Morning in Maine
november 2010 by M.Leddy
Elaine Fine's favorite book from childhood
books
childhood
reading
november 2010 by M.Leddy
BUCK TO READING: DROP DEAD
november 2010 by M.Leddy
No books in this principal's school!
books
education
reading
november 2010 by M.Leddy
Students and books
october 2010 by M.Leddy
The appeal of paper
books
college
education
reading
technology
university
october 2010 by M.Leddy
The Lonely Phone Booth
september 2010 by M.Leddy
For wistful 4- to 8-year-olds
books
children
NewYorkCity
telephone
september 2010 by M.Leddy
Ernie Pyle in the Library of America
august 2010 by M.Leddy
World War II writing, from the Library of America
books
writing
august 2010 by M.Leddy
The Old Trading Post, Lisbon, New Hampshire
july 2010 by M.Leddy
Tracking down a bookstore from a postcard in a library book
books
bookstores
postcards
july 2010 by M.Leddy
"[T]he social value of reading"
june 2010 by M.Leddy
Verlyn Klinkenborg on what the iPad and Kindle do to the social value of reading
books
reading
technology
june 2010 by M.Leddy
Roger Lathbury and Hapworth 16, 1924
april 2010 by M.Leddy
How the publication of a Salinger novella came to naught
books
fiction
Salinger
writing
april 2010 by M.Leddy
Brookline Booksmith
april 2010 by M.Leddy
Independent bookstore, just outside Boston, fate up in the air
books
bookstores
Boston
april 2010 by M.Leddy
Jay Bennett (1912–2009)
april 2010 by M.Leddy
He wrote one of the best books of my youth
books
childhood
fiction
rea
april 2010 by M.Leddy
Children, “best readers in the world”
january 2010 by M.Leddy
Novelist Katherine Paterson on her readers
books
childhood
children
fiction
reading
january 2010 by M.Leddy
Clifford Hicks’s new Alvin Fernald novel
december 2009 by M.Leddy
Alvin Fernald forever
AlvinFernald
books
childhood
children
CliffordHicks
fiction
december 2009 by M.Leddy
Library book returned after fifty-four years
december 2009 by M.Leddy
To the Jersey City Free Public Library
books
library
december 2009 by M.Leddy
Walt Mossberg reviews the Nook
december 2009 by M.Leddy
“It's not fully baked yet.”
books
reading
technology
december 2009 by M.Leddy
David Pogue reviews the Nook
december 2009 by M.Leddy
A “bad case of Ship-at-All-Costs-itis”
books
reading
technology
december 2009 by M.Leddy
Princeton students and the Kindle
october 2009 by M.Leddy
“I hate to sound like a Luddite, but this technology is a poor excuse of an academic tool,” said Aaron Horvath ’10, a student in Civil Society and Public Policy. “It’s clunky, slow and a real pain to operate.”
analog
books
digital
reading
technology
october 2009 by M.Leddy
Enric Jardí on type
september 2009 by M.Leddy
Good book marred by awkward translation and typographical errors
books
typography
september 2009 by M.Leddy
You know you’re really an English major of a certain age when . . .
august 2009 by M.Leddy
you immediately recognize T.S. Eliot’s Complete Poems and Plays: 1909–1950 (1971) on the bookshelf behind the interviewees on MSNBC’s Hardball.
books
poetry
television
tseliot
august 2009 by M.Leddy
THE MAIN TITLE
august 2009 by M.Leddy
"Experimental layout by Jan Tschichold, 1948"
books
design
Penguin
august 2009 by M.Leddy
Reading and not reading in Jersey City
august 2009 by M.Leddy
Excerpts from Helene Stapinski's Five-Finger Discount
books
NewJersey
reading
august 2009 by M.Leddy
Nabokov's index cards, coming in November
august 2009 by M.Leddy
Publishers Weekly review of the unfinished Nabokov novel
books
indexcards
Nabokov
reading
august 2009 by M.Leddy
Books and guns
august 2009 by M.Leddy
"What guns are for some people, books are for me."
books
reading
august 2009 by M.Leddy
Nicholson Baker and the Kindle
august 2009 by M.Leddy
"This was what they were calling e-paper? This four-by-five window onto an overcast afternoon?"
books
reading
technology
august 2009 by M.Leddy
Florida Citrus responds
june 2009 by M.Leddy
The Florida Department of Citrus has responded to Alissa Hamilton's book Squeezed: What You Don't Know About Orange Juice: "The basic principle of orange juice processing is similar to how you make orange juice at home."
books
culture
food
orangejuice
june 2009 by M.Leddy
"So cheap, so accessible"
may 2009 by M.Leddy
Reading on the Kindle: books as disposable objects
books
reading
may 2009 by M.Leddy
David Barringer on books
may 2009 by M.Leddy
"A book is like a body part, and when you die and your connection to the book is broken, the book dies a little, too."
books
reading
may 2009 by M.Leddy
Review: Squeezed, the orange juice book
may 2009 by M.Leddy
Review of Alissa Hamilton's Squeezed: What You Don't Know About Orange Juice
books
culture
food
orangejuice
may 2009 by M.Leddy
Buy Indie Day
april 2009 by M.Leddy
Friday, May 1, supporting independent bookstores
books
bookstores
april 2009 by M.Leddy
Smell of Books™
april 2009 by M.Leddy
"a revolutionary new aerosol e-book enhancer"
books
humor
reading
april 2009 by M.Leddy
From the Doyle edition
march 2009 by M.Leddy
You can't do this on the Kindle: a page from my college paperback of T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets
books
reading
paper
poetry
technology
TSEliot
march 2009 by M.Leddy
No Kindle for me
march 2009 by M.Leddy
"The craving for content-on-demand seems to miss the ways in which one might want to go back to a book — one's own copy of it — over time, as it accumulates annotations, as it begins to show wear, as it turns into a record of one's reading and one's life experience. And how does one inscribe a gift book on the Kindle?"
books
reading
technology
paper
march 2009 by M.Leddy
Dickens on the Kindle
january 2009 by M.Leddy
"Distractions abounded."
books
Dickens
reading
technology
january 2009 by M.Leddy
Good news, bad news about reading
january 2009 by M.Leddy
From the National Endowment for the Humanities: fiction up, overall reading down
books
fiction
reading
january 2009 by M.Leddy
JANUARY (WPA Art Project)
january 2009 by M.Leddy
A Year of Good . . . . Reading Ahead
art
books
reading
january 2009 by M.Leddy
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