Esses dias estou meio preguiçosa, atabalhoada com tantas coisas para fazer e pensar, então não vou falar muito...| I'm kind of lazy this days, with so many things to do and think, so I'm not going to talk much...


Campanha "Preferência Para Leitores" | Campaign "Preference for Readers"


Imprima seu adesivo e saia colando por aí. | Print it and stick it everywhere.

Via Livros e Afins.


Esculturas com Livros | Booksculptures

Bacana demais! So cool!



By the artist Mike Stilkey.

Via Boeken Dingen.

Literature for Free

Internet should help us getting in touch with other literatures, but we know it's not always like this. Anyway, exceptions are growing:

- This month issue from the Words Without Borders brings Modern Chinese Literature translated into English (and some Spanish and Romanian as well).

- The American Small Beer Press is publishing a collection of short stories by John Kessel for free download, under creative commons. You can do with it almost whathever you want, including reading. (Source: Boing Boing)

And for read all this PDFs you can use Skim (if you're a Mac user). I've already read some books with it. Yes, I bring my laptop to bed to read before going to sleep...

Through the The Bonefolder website (see the previous post) I run to this acronym, LOCKSS, which stands for Lots Of Copies Keep Stuff Safe. Cool name, isn't it? And it "is an international non-profit community initiative that provides tools and support so libraries can easily and cost-effectively preserve today’s web-published materials for tomorrow’s readers".

Open Letter on Print on Demand

Official statement by Amazon.com at 31th March.

According to booktwo.org: "Yes, they’re serious, and yes, they’re bad people."

The future of the book in 1984

Nicholas Negroponte, one of the creators of MIT Media Lab, talks about the future of the book in 1984 (around the 8th minute). Then the future was the Internet, but Internet is already there for 10 years and the book keep going. How the next future of the book will look like? Maybe, the future of the book is the book itself.

Por trás de cada livro tem uma história...

Pirate Coelho

Paulo Coelho, o autor brasileiro bestseller internacional, se disfarçou de Pirate Coelho e está disponibilizando os seus livros para download na Internet. "No Vasco", como diria um amigo meu. Veja a nota sobre o assunto no site do Ministério da Cultura (e tb veja um vídeo dele falando sobre Internet e livros) e confira o blog do Pirate Coelho aqui.

Paulo Coelho, the international bestseller Brazilian author, disguised as Pirate Coelho, is making available all his books to download. For free! You can watch a video of him talking about books and Internet here.

Via Livros e Afins

Menino Maluquinho

Post só para os falantes do bom e velho português. Ler o Menino Maluquinho sentada no sofá aqui nos gélidos e distantes Países Baixos foi tudo de bom! Obrigada pela dica, Sasse.

D-Lib Magazine...

... it's a publication from the D-Lib Alliance about Digital Library Research. The January/February issue is already online.

The Futures of the Book According to Penguin

"In this future everyone is a publisher, but where are the editors?"

Thanks, Janneke!

Reading

ILLUSTRATION: PHILIPPE PETIT-ROULET

Interesting article in the New Yorker Magazine about literacy, reading, reading habits and etc. The author's (Caleb Crain) blog (Steamboats Are Ruining Everything) also worth a visit or a subscription.

Antipodes

The reading revolution is already happening, but not here. In Japan Half of The Top Selling Books are Written in Mobile Phones.

Via booktwo

Goodbye, textbooks; hello, open-source learning

It's not new, but it's very interesting.

Via Bernardo.

Future reading

A nice article about the reading in the digitization era in The New Yorker.

Via Print is Dead

Brasil Digital

Digitalização e arquivos digitais (em Bibliotecas e em editoras) são assunto diário no meu curso aqui e por conta disso estou indo atrás de projetos no Brasil nessa área. A Biblioteca Nacional tem alguns projetos interessantes, como a Biblioteca Nacional sem Fronteiras, todos sob o guarda-chuva da Biblioteca Nacional Digital. O triste é que são sites chatinhos de navegar, os sites não conversam entre si e cada um trabalha de maneiras diferentes. A única coisa que têm em comum é o fato de que o usuário é obrigado a instalar "readers" na própria máquina para poder visualizar os arquivos, que também tem que ser baixados... Detalhe: cada projeto exige um "reader" diferente. Pelo menos os programas (que eu baixei) são apresentados em versões para Mac e até Linux. Pena que esses sites não são mais divulgados, mas mesmo se fossem acho que as pessoas desistiriam rapidinho de usá-los... Uma pena.

BookGlutton

BookGlutton is a reading community that will be available to the public next month.

Via if:book


P.S.: Apparently if you register yourself in the site, after a couple of days you receive a password to use it. At least it worked for me, but I don't know if they have a limited number of passwords to give away...

Paper

Conhecida no mundo inteiro por seus pneus, a japonesa Bridgestone apresenta um "papel eletrônico" de 0,29mm de espessura. A tela flexível exibe até 4.096 cores. É a tecnologia "Quick Response Liquid Powder Display" (QR-LPD). A exibição aconteceu na sexta-feira (26), numa feira em Yohohama. (Foto: AFP)

Via Globo.com

Longtail wars: How book publishing suddenly has the upper hand with some of the biggest technology companies in the world

"... the publishing industry today is in a position rarely if ever experienced before; we suddenly have the upper hand."

By Evan Schnittman, Vice President of Business Development and Rights for the Academic and USA Divisions of Oxford University Press.

Via TeleRead

Bill's Linotype

Such a nice video that also helps to understand how linotype worked.

Um vídeo banaca que também ajuda a entender como funcionava o linotipo.

Printing on demand

"Print-on-demand technology might not produce beautiful books, but it provides access to physical texts that otherwise wouldn't exist."

In theblogbooks in Guardian Unlimited