Now This Is a Bookmobile!

The history of mobile libraries. This article (mostly photos) is cool. Fun to look through the wheels of time. The below pic is from the German Robi mobile but there are pix of many others through the ages. Check it out.

eReader Comparison Guide

Ok...so I just created this eReader Comparison chart for my library and decided that someone in blog-land may benefit from it as well...it's as up-to-date as it can be at this moment (including Amazon's big announcements this past Thursday).

eReader Comparisons

Frugal and Far Out Ideas

Now these solutions are brilliant...

The Fall Book Preview of Cross-Under Reads - Entertainment - The Atlantic Wire

Lately I've been very impressed with the quality of Young Adult fiction titles coming out. The storylines are so much meatier and captivating that the audience has expanded to include a much broader range of readers than when teen books were written in my youth (80s).

The following is a nice blog of teen titles with cross interest to the adult readership world. Which ones would interest you?

The Fall Book Preview of Cross-Under Reads - Entertainment - The Atlantic Wire 

 

 

Teen Reads

The Top 100 Best Teen Novels

From NPR...a list of the supposed best teen novels written. Many are current and while some of them are indeed very well written, we are questioning whether they will stand the test of time...

What are your thoughts? Which have you read? Which are you dying to get your hands on?

David A. Bell: The Bookless Library | The New Republic

The Bookless Library - The Future?

Looking forward to Fall

Here's the poop on the fall TV line-up. Which series are you saddest to see go? Which ones should have gone? And which ones gave you a deep sigh of relief to see had made the cut? See the full list from our friends at @huffingtonpost .

Looking forward to "Once Upon a Time" returning for sure, but also "New Girl", "Happy Endings", "Fringe" and "Grimm". 

Why can't they please just let "The Office" go - it has way jumped the shark...so sad.