May 23rd, 2013
angelamelamud

Seattle-area Once Sold Tales needs to find homes for 500,000 books before their warehouse closes at the end of the month. $1 for paperbacks, $2 for hardcovers, or $1.50/lb.

More details here.

May 22nd, 2013
angelamelamud

Oh, you know, just 10,000 books creating a painting-like nature scene.

[via: My Modern Met]

May 21st, 2013
picadorbooks
Works of art (in this widest sense) are ways of building a meaningful community.
John-Paul Flintoff, How to Change the World
May 21st, 2013
angelamelamud
Because really, what else would you do with a broken fridge? (Image stolen from Lawrence Public Library.)

Because really, what else would you do with a broken fridge?

(Image stolen from Lawrence Public Library.)

May 20th, 2013
angelamelamud
May 17th, 2013
angelamelamud

Sold!

(For more vintage school library posters from the 1960’s courtesy of BuzzFeed, click here.)

May 16th, 2013
angelamelamud

Has your to-be-read pile grown out of control? There is a Japanese word for that!

[via: GalleyCat]

May 16th, 2013
picadorbooks
It is better not to try people, not to force them to desperation…Full bellies breed gentle manners.
May 15th, 2013
angelamelamud
She’d become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read.
May 14th, 2013
picadorbooks

We’re having a Hilary Mantel e-Book saleRead what the New York Review of Books called a “brilliant pastiche of Swift and Joyce.”

May 14th, 2013
picadorbooks
Nobody ever achieved anything except in small steps, one after another.
John-Paul Flintoff, How to Change the World
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