It’s currently possible to remove DRM from ebooks encrypted by any of the DRM schemes except the Apple Fairplay DRM scheme.

Ann Arbor resident Erin Stead has won the 2011 Caldecott Award for best illustration of a children's book for her book A Sick Day for Amos McGee. This award is given annually by the American Library Association. The charming picture book, written by Ms. Stead's husband Philip, tells the story of what happens when the zookeeper calls in sick. The animals know what good care he takes of them so they try to reciprocate the favor. Picture a group of zoo animals taking a city bus across town to the zookeeper's home.

The challenge with the North American city is to create a walkable city without giving up the car. My belief is that we are so wedded to cars that if you wait for better urbanism to give up cars then you will wait a very long time indeed.
That's what my book is about: reconciling the walkable city and the car. It has taken me decades to accept such a bizarre notion. But it's what I see.

Before you mail another check to Save the Children or join the Peace Corps, read this book. Michael Maren shows that the international aid industry is a big business more concerned with winning its next big government contract than helping needy people. The problem isn't a lack of charity missions in the Third World, but that the best intentions of these idealists are often inadvertently destructive, thanks to a deadly combination of their naiveté and the willingness of native elites to exploit them. Maren spent many years in Africa living this life. This is a splendid, literate, muckraking memoir of his experiences.

Search is among the most disruptive innovations of our time. It influences what we buy and where we go. It shapes how we learn and what we believe. This provocative and inspiring book explores design patterns that apply across the categories of web, e-commerce, enterprise, desktop, mobile, social, and real time search and discovery. Using colorful illustrations and examples, the authors bring modern information retrieval to life, covering such diverse topics as relevance ranking, faceted navigation, multi-touch, and mixed reality. Search Patterns challenges us to invent the future of discovery while serving as a practical guide to help us make search applications better today.

I hope that this book will stimulate your mental metabolism with a rich and multi-faceted degustation menu. Sampling the 'dishes' prepared for this urban smorgasbord will take you on a tour de force covering a great range of timely and significant topics and issues such as sustainability, digital identity, surveillance, privacy, access, environmental impact, activism, participatory planning, and community engagement. The book exposes research accounts which seek to convey an appreciation for local differences, for the empowerment of people and for the human-centred design of urban technology. Both contributors and coverage are international. They are not limited to cases based in Europe and America only. Rather, I purposefully sourced chapters covering Asia, Africa and Australia by a most engaging and prolific group of authors not afraid of presenting challenging and controversial ideas.

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Title What's Wrong with the World
Contents The homelessness of man -- Imperialism, or the mistake about man -- Feminism, or the mistake about woman -- Education, or the mistake about the child -- The home of the man - Three notes

on the dangers of reading in the bookstore

Economist Paul Courant was the provost of the University of Michigan when it decided to be the first and boldest partner of Google for the library scanning project that has become part of Google Book Search.

ScoutPal quickly gives you up-to-the-minute values on your cell phone for books and merchandise listed on amazon.com; wireless lookups can also optionally report marketplace prices from abebooks.com and PriceGrabber.com, as well as lookup by title or Library of Congress Catalog number. For instant database lookups on a Pocket PC (cell phone connection not required), we offer ScoutPalDB.

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(we end up fixing some set of books that get damaged by our kids so that they go back into circulation at the library right away)

Finally, in-house book repair should not be seen as a solution to book damage. We know that a certain percentage of our collection will wear out each year. An element of an effective book repair operation should be an examination of the causes that generate repairs. While some causes, such as the absence of environmental controls, may be impossible to change, increasing staff and users' awareness of how books should be handled will aid in decreasing the number of books needing repairs. A responsible conservation operation should be run in tandem with a program to increase public and staff awareness of the need for responsible general collections book handling.

The new owners plan to expand the available space in our flagship Shattuck store by these renovations. They will use this extra space to substantially expand the stores stock of both new and used books at the store. In addition, we have leased space on San Pablo Ave so that we can greatly increase the number of high quality scholarly used books for sale through a modern "brick and click" store model. We are thus extremely interested in paying top dollar for high quality libraries!

some nice stuff here -

seattle public library blog about books; you library-school people will recognize the "readers advisory" genre

very nice 1960s book designs in typewriter fonts

The library worked with Logghe to produce an online version of the book. And when he visited the library to speak about the book and the online exhibit, his talk was recorded and made available for download (as video or audio-only) from the library’s po

collection of library photos - 300+ comments in blog thread

Against market trends, Dzanc Books is a small publisher poised to succeed, hiring staff and expanding quickly. And that may be because it sprouted from a blog rather than a traditional printing press, and it is certainly web-savvy.

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the Internet will not bring us a universal library, much less an encyclopedic record of human experience.

The basic idea is to give each page a Web page that collects all the information about that book. Books have never had "a first class place on the web." They've been distributed across publishers' Web sites, etc.

The Amazon Pittsburgh Libraries Linky is a Greasemonkey script that inserts status information from the Allegheny County Library catalog into book listings from Amazon.com.

How Postmodern Consumer Capitalism Threatens Democracy, Civil Education and the Public Good

As you might expect, the book features eclectic and rare book illustrations derived from many digital repositories, accompanied by some background commentary. It is not simply a regurgitation of what is here in the archives, although about two thirds of t

I know not what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay al

Proceedings of the Third Communities and Technologies Conference, Michigan State University 2007

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This book is delightful. It has what I always think of as ‘quality.’ It is literally a gastronomic curiosity, and delicious to read, and very titillating as well.”—M. F. K. Fisher

Sodders' exhaustive research has turned up vivid and personal accounts of these 1871 fires, and she reprints them in the book. In all, the October fires probably killed no more than 200 persons, but they made 18,000 homeless, or one out of every 100 resid

By way of clarification, then, it should be made clear that the list bears no resemblance whatever to the actual English major at Rutgers. Indeed, the list contains a great number of works and authors that are not currently taught at Rutgers at either the

books sorted so that their titles tell a story; awesome. The Sorted Books project began in 1993 years ago and is ongoing. The project has taken place in many different places over the years, ranging form private homes to specialized public book collections. The process is the same in every case: culling through a collection of books, pulling particular titles, and eventually grouping the books into clusters so that the titles can be read in sequence, from top to bottom. The final results are shown either as photographs of the book clusters or as the actual stacks themselves, shown on the shelves of the library they were drawn from. Taken as a whole, the clusters from each sorting aim to examine that particular library's focus, idiosyncrasies, and inconsistencies — a cross-section of that library's holdings. At present, the Sorted Books project comprises more than 130 book clusters.

book search tool. compare w/librarything? link to librarything?

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Blogging, podcasting and other social media are profoundly disrupting the mainstream media and marketing industries. Paul Gillin’s The New Influencers explores these forces by identifying the influencers, their goals and their motivations. The book also

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detailed pen-in-hand review of Taleb's "Black Swan" manuscript

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brilliant hack to let you search through a library collection for books based on the color of the cover. as noted by kevin yezbick. still rough around the edges

put in a book, get recommendations for more books. appears to be supported by amazon click-through sales, no sign of a library anywhere

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I saw Lou today, and he was quite certain that he had his own publishing company

scanned from out-of-copyright works; thought of Tozier's Distributed Proofreading when I saw this.

Yesterday I came across a truly gorgeous book of photographs by Candida Höfer titled, Libraries, a title which pretty much says it all, because that is just exactly what it is, one rich, sumptuous, photo of a library interior after another. It’s like p

Michele Norris talks with three fourth-graders and their principal about the downsides and benefits of a packed schedule. She also talks with child development expert David Elkind, whose latest book is The Power of Play.

this way I can happily read, tag, and return books and not fear losing them.

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this is old news, but the NYC secretary who cooked all of Julia Child's recipes has a book coming out

How I fill up pages in my paper notebooks, and the difficulty of capturing that paper electronically