- From BibliOdyssey, a very cool collection of board game images.
- Bookseller Steven Schuyler has an excellent dispatch from the Boston Book Fair over at boersenblatt.net.
- Polish archaeologists have identified the remains of Nicholas Copernicus, partially based on a DNA comparison of bones buried in Frombork Cathedral with hairs taken from a book from Copernicus' collection now at Uppsala University.
- In the Boston Globe, Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow writes on the current debate over whether the Internet is having a "narrowing effect" on scholarly research.
- The BL's Sloane Printed Books catalogue is now (partially) online - basically a Legacy Library done differently. You can't browse? What madness is this?
- Philly's mayor is trying to close 11 branch libraries, and yesterday people took to the streets in protest.
- Richard Cox has an excellent and very timely short essay on books and their future.
- Ian used the new online doohickey Typealyzer to test out a few book-blogs, including this one.
- Friday was Voltaire's birthday, and the NYPL's Jessica Pigza marked the day with a relevant post.
- From Paul Collins, some very cool botanical sample books, a pointer to his Slate piece on mailmen who don't deliver the goods, and a note that his forthcoming book, The Book of William: How Shakespeare's First Folio Conquered the World, is now available for preorder on Amazon. It's set for release in July.
- For the WSJ, Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim lists a few rare books on early America.
- The OCLC Wars continue, and Jessamyn points out a very good rundown of the case over at Stefano's Linotype.
- Nina Burleigh was on NPR this week talking about her book on biblical forgeries, Unholy Business.
Reviews
- In the NYTimes, Steve Jones reviews Bert Hölldobler and E. O. Wilson's new book, The Superorganism.
- In the Washington Post, David Brown has a review and discussion of John Hessler's The Naming of America.
- In the NYRB, Tim Flannery reviews Richard Fortey's Dry Storeroom No. 1. [not full-text online]
