The modern-day library is a digital hub, community resource center, job-hunting resource, art space and provider of free and open access to information. Read more »
In a small, dusty used bookstore in the middle of Costa Rica one summer, I came across a book of short stories I just had to have. I'd fled to Costa Rica to escape a bad relationship, but he'd come after me. Read more »
Gabriel Levinson, the man behind the Book Bike, is getting ready for another summer of distributing books to Chicagoans young and old at parks and other public venues around the city. Read more »
There are plenty of advantages to eBooks--portability, accessibility, cloud-synced annotation--but there are a number of things that they don’t do nearly as well as print books. Read more »
Transparency isn't only the best disinfectant: it's also a pretty great way to ensure you’ll keep your word. The notion of the New Year's resolution may be eternally quixotic, but it’s also intriguing and hard to dismiss. Read more »
Over at TriQuarterly’s blog, Matt Wood has been documenting his various eReading habits, from RSS to eBooks. It’s an engaging read despite the potentially dry subject matter, most specifically when he speaks about his workflow. Read more »
One of the great promises of digital content has long been its purported eco-friendliness--in the early days of the battle between bloggers and the old-school media, bloggers touted the ecological footprint of blogs, which were surely more green than. Read more »
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