Well, being that this is the end of the month I recommend you pounce on anything you see here that looks particularly interesting, since odds are good these deals won't be long-lived ones. But hey, even fleeting deals are deals, so let's get to it ( Read more... )

I was going to have a review up for you guys tonight, but then the flu came along and said "OH, REALLY?" and I was forced to concede no, not really ( Read more... )

For a lot of us, we're getting into winter blues season. Holidays are over, we're back into the regular drudgery, but spring is nowhere in sight and it's still freaking cold out. It's ok, I've got you covered.


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I'm going to take a wild guess and say that most of you have probably played fruit ninja or one of its many variation or have at least watched someone playing it. As always, the internet is fantastic at taking a bizarre idea and making it even more ludicrous, so for this evening's Friday Night Movie, please do have a live action version of Fruit ( Read more... )

Alright, well, this post is going up a few hours later than usual for the Thursday Deals, but never fear, your free and discounted e-book list has arrived! Rejoice as your wallet weeps! (I haven't decided yet if it's a kindness or a cruelty for me to share all the deals with you. Perhaps a bit of both ( Read more... )

Recently Pew Internet did a survey about the goodness of libraries, how people are using them, and what patrons would like to see offered in the future. There's a bit of data about changes in library use over the past few years, which library services should be prioritized (and it pleases me to see the #1 answer to this was that libraries should ( Read more... )

Jane of Dear Author has put together her 10 predictions for the book world in 2013. She talks about e-books, bookstores, mergers, and has some pretty interesting thoughts on where publishing might take us in the next months. I suspect she's right about e-book sales starting to level off a bit (they're currently just over 40% of publishing sales ( Read more... )

This week's Friday Night Movie is a bizarrely cheerful and incredibly catchy song/cartoon about some of the most creatively stupid ways to die imaginable. I'm pretty sure most of these deaths could earn you your very own Darwin award, but the whole thing is such a strange combination of cute, catchy, and macabre I had to inflict it on you all ( Read more... )

It's Thursday, and if you've been around here for any length of time, you know what that means: awesome e-book deals! So dig in and find yourself something shiny and new to read at a fabulous sale price. You know you don't have enough books. You can never have enough books.Normal disclaimers apply. All links go to Amazon. Some deals may be ( Read more... )

You know what I haven't done lately? Sent you over to snicker at some awful library books. Whether they're outdated, offensive, or just plain bizarre, librarians Mary and Holly collect them and share them all with us, complete with commentary and sometimes excerpts. What makes the collection even more hilarious (and terrifying) is that ( Read more... )