Did you know that when stacked up the manuscript of Gone With the Wind was taller than its 4' 9 1/2" author Margaret Mitchell?or that Leo Tolstoy's wife copied the manuscript of War and Peace by hand not once, not twice but seven times!It is stories like these that make up Who the Hell is Pansy O'Hara?, a new book by the husband and wife team of Jenny Bond and Chris Sheedy."When you understand the ...

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Amazon's acquisition of ABE continues to be a big topic of conversation among online booksellers. Dealers are still attempting to read the tea leaves and divine Amazon's ultimate intentions for ABE and its subsidiaries (Library Thing, Bookfinder, etc.). On the Bibliophile List, discussion of late has turned to the fates of previous Amazon acquisitions, specifically Bibliofind (an early competitor to ABE), and what these might tell us about Amazon's plans. During this recent back-and-forth, Marion ...

Library of Picture Books in Iwaki City. Designed by Tadao AndoThe folks at BestCollegesOnlin... have put together a list of the 25 most modern libraries in the world.The list is divided into three sections; architecture, technology and innovation, and digitial collections. The libraries are listed in no particular order.Here are their choices and comments:Architecture Library of Picture Books in Iwaki City of Fukushima Prefecture: This library challenges the old ideas of what a library space ...

With no more campaigns to raise money for it seems that the Bush machine has set its sites on the Bush Presidential Library.In the spirit of Sacha Baron Cohen the Sunday Times of London arranged and recorded an interview between a leading GOP activist Stephen Payne and two men thought to be acting on behalf of the exiled former president of Kyrgyzstan.Payne, who also sits on the Homeland Security advisory board, is heard offering meetings ...