Category Archives: funny
John Hodgman has some great ideas for repurposing bookstores
This Daily Show segment where Jon Hodgman discusses Borders (it starts at the 7:57 mark) was aired nearly a week ago, but in my defense, Borders officially gave up the ghost nearly a month before that, so it’s not like … Continue reading
Posted in Borders, business, comics, funny, online, publishing
Tagged bookstores, borders, business models, comedy central, digital publishing, george r. r. martin, humor, john hodgman, misery, thomas hardy
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Paper sculptures in Pottermore video are beautiful, make book hard to read
Don’t loan J.K. Rowling any first editions! The author of Harry Potter doesn’t just love ebooks now, she hates printed books. Why, look at the lengths she’ll go to deface one in her new video announcing her HP ebook venture: … Continue reading
Posted in authors, funny, ideas, illustrations, online
Tagged animations, books as art, harry potter, paper, pottermore, print, sculptures, spiders, stop motion
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Borders employees amuse Internet with snarky sign humor
Buzzfeed has a fun/sad page of 13 different signs recently found in Borders stores across the U.S. Some of them convey the sort of opinions you imagine bookstore employees are usually forced to keep private, which is always fun to … Continue reading
Posted in Borders, business, funny, online
Tagged bankruptcy, borders, employees, funny, humor, photos, pics, signage, signs, store closing
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90-second “A Wrinkle in Time” is like a Spark Notes video made by tiny, insane actors
The problem with old age, or Internet overdoses, or vitamin B12 deficiency (that’s today’s health story), is that you forget the classics. For example, I know Charlotte was a spider, but did she save her pig-baby from a bejeweled Hobbit? … Continue reading
Posted in announcements, books, contests, funny, online
Tagged childrens books, classics, clips, comedy, contests, film festivals, humor, kids, libraries, literature, newbery, nypl, summaries
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Is a Kindle bullet proof? There’s one quick way to find out.
“Can a book save your life?” That’s what Tom Shillue of the literary journal Electric Literature asks in the clip above, and you can tell he should be taken very seriously because he does that TV news journalist walk toward … Continue reading
Posted in authors, books, funny, hardware, Kindle 2, offbeat, online
Tagged bullets, firing ranges, franzen, funny, guns, journals, Kindle 2, literature, moody, silly, videos, will it blend
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My favorite childhood book of all time is now an iPad app
[And now a quick interruption from Kindle posts...] In my opinion, there is one book that surpasses all others in children’s literature, and it involves Grover insisting that you do not turn the page. In fact, that’s pretty much all … Continue reading
Posted in Apple iOS, apps, books, funny, news
Tagged Apple iOS, apps, childrens books, classics, ebooks, grover, ipad, kids, monster at the end, muppets, sesame street
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A reminder that not everyone likes to receive a book for a gift
That Kindle holiday ad now running on U.S. television warms me like a cup of hot chocolate, but I suspect it’s something of a Christmas miracle. For contrast: Once, while I was working at a mortgage company back in college … Continue reading
"The Onion" releases 5 exclusive Kindle books for $2.99 each
If you enjoy the silly fake news and editorials of The Onion–my favorite thing to see is when really uptight strangers make the mistake of thinking a story is real and go bananas denouncing it–then you’ll be happy to know … Continue reading
Posted in deals, ebooks, funny, publishing
Tagged Amazon, current events, exclusives, fake news, humor, kindle, satire, the onion
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