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Video: official trailer for Kelley Armstrong’s Bitten TV series | Quill & Quire

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Canadian cable network Space has released the official trailer for Bitten, a television-series adaptation of Kelley Armstrong’s 2001 debut novel.

Published by Random House Canada, Bitten follows Elena Michaels, a Toronto journalist who also happens to be the only existing female werewolf. The fantasy novel turned Armstrong into a best-selling author and kicked off her popular 15-title Women of the Otherworld series. Bitten premieres on Space Jan. 11

via Video: official trailer for Kelley Armstrong’s Bitten TV series | Quill & Quire

London book benches: are you sitting comfortably? | The Guardian

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Visitors to London will able to enjoy books in a new way next summer – by sitting on them. Benches resembling giant open books, the volumes ranging from Kenneth Grahame’s Wind in the Willows to George Orwell’s 1984, will be installed at various sites in the capital for a stretch of 10 weeks.

London Book Benches

Read: London book benches: are you sitting comfortably? | Books | The Guardian.

How Braille Was Invented | Gizmodo

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Braille Alphabte

Braille was invented by a nineteenth century man named Louis Braille, who was completely blind.

Braille’s story starts when he was three years old. He was playing in his father’s shop in Coupvray, France, and somehow managed to injure his eye. Though he was offered the best medical attention available at the time, it wasn’t enough—an infection soon developed and spread to his other eye, rendering him blind in both eyes. While a tragedy for him, had this accident not happened, we wouldn’t have braille today.

There was a system of reading in place for the blind at the time, which consisted of tracing a finger along raised letters. However, this system meant that reading was painfully slow and it was difficult to discerning by touch the relatively complex letters of the alphabet. As a result, many people struggled to master the embossed letter system.

Read the rest of the story: How Braille Was Invented | Gizmodo

World’s most expensive printed book sells for $14.2 million | AFP

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This Video Game Could Revolutionize Publishing—and Reading | The Atlantic

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When the Best Books of 2013 are listed, the most important may not make the cut. Thats because the most exciting literary innovation of the year is not a book at all, but a video game for iPad and iPhone. Device 6 is a metaphysical thriller in which the world is made almost entirely from words. Playing it is like reading a book—except, in this book, the words veer off in unexpected directions, rather than progressing in orderly fashion down the page. When Anna, the game’s protagonist, turns a corner in the narrative, the text does too, swerving off to one side at a right angle, forcing the player to rotate the screen.

More in this story about other innovative gaming apps that have a literary angle. Read: This Video Game Could Revolutionize Publishing—and Reading | Rowland Manthorpe | The Atlantic.

Can Book Clubs Thrive in the Digital Age? | Mashable

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When most people think of book clubs, they picture intimate gatherings in living rooms or libraries. People rarely imagine a book club as a collection of GIFs, memes, fan fiction and cosplay, all of which are staples of how readers respond to media in the Internet era. But a new Tumblr blog, Reblog Book Club, wants to give the traditional book club a digital update.

While bloggers have previously hosted book clubs on Tumblr, Reblog Book Club is the first book club that’s founded and moderated by Tumblr itself. Rachel Fershleiser, the microblogging platform’s director of literary outreach, launched the club in September as a way to engage a passionate and diverse online community, but faced challenges in organizing a discussion group.

Read more:  Can Book Clubs Thrive in the Digital Age? | Mashable

The Book as App: Multi-Touch Ebooks and Their Future in Libraries | Nicole Hennig

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Best Books: 36 Reads For Every Personality On Your List | HuffPost

  • Class Clown
  • The Optimist
  • The Giver
  • The Fitness Buff
  • The Old Soul
  • The Chef To Be
  • The Introvert
  • The Extrovert
  • The Business-Oriented

The Readers: Books for Every Personality | ChaptersIndigo

  • Inside
  • The Trendsetter
  • The Foodie
  • The Rebel
  • The Man
  • The Inspired Woman
  • The News Junkie
  • The Book Clubber
  • The Geek
  • The Traditionalist

7 Books That Are Perfect For Introverts | HuffPo

Here Is The One Perfect Book For Every Single Myers-Briggs Type | HuffPo

Need to figure out your M-B type? Check out: What Myers-Briggs Personality Type Are You? | LifeHacker or the MBTI Personality Types Socioeconomic Infographic.

 

 

Book this librarian | The Hindu

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Pushpendra Pandya

Pushpendra Pandya, a resident of Vasai in Mumbai, works six days a week as a copywriter. On Sundays, though, he hires a cab and travels to different localities in the city, collecting books from those who have either no need for them, or no space to keep them.

Last month he started a crowd-sourced library, and has since built a collection of 1200 titles with help from friends and strangers. The idea for the library came to Pandya in March last year when he started a book sharing arrangement with friends.“Just like we would share notes in college after bunking class to cover up, we started swapping books. I thought it could be taken to a larger audience,” says Pandya, who calls himself an old-fashioned book lover. “In spite of being in such a crowded city, people feel lonely here. You need some company sometimes, and books have been the greatest company for me so far.

Read the rest of the story: Book this librarian | The Hindu.