I’ve written several times about Maran Illustrated and their online eBooks including the following posts. I started with…Maran Illustrated Yoga eBook available online for FREE!. I then added updates:
Maran Graphics Family Gives Away the Store (or at least the books)
Maran Illustrated Student Library is Now Online
More Maran eBooks available online for […]
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John Mutter, editor-in-chief, of the Shelf-Awareness newsletter announced their 3rd anniversary via the newsletter. If you aren’t familiar with the newsletter these highlights will help you become more familiar. You may sign up for the FREE newsletter and see back issues at Shelf-Awareness.com
“Yesterday marked the third anniversary of our first issue. […]
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Picked up an interesting book yesterday at Goodwill called, “Specialty Shop Retailing: How to run your own store - Innovative ideas for retail success”. The copy that I found had a copyright of 1997. Was curious about the author’s business success so I looked up Orange Tree Imports
and found that it is […]
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National Library Week is April 13-17. This is a SPECIAL anniversary of the ‘week’ - the 50th anniversary! There is an interesting philatelic history of it at LibraryHistoryBuff.org.
Visit the ALA (American Library Association) and your public library Websites for more information.
For the latest news on it visit Google News for this search on […]
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Goosebumps HorrorLand #1: Revenge of the Living Dummy
Do your kids or students enjoy the Goosebumps books? If so, they will LOVE the new Website that Scholastic has created for his new ‘HorrorLand’ series. The first two books are now available.
Karen MacPherson of Scripps Howard News Service published a good article about […]
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lifehacker.com had a good post on finding free Books on Saturday. It was sharing a post from FriedBeef.com, Top 10 Best Places to Get Free Books. The comments to the lifehacker post are as good as either of the actual posts. There are lots of ideas here! DailyLit.com even emails […]
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Just received this email from Real Eyes Bookstore:
Dear Literary Family,
We hope you have already marked your calendars for September 6, 2008! The CLF committee has been working hard to bring great authors, awesome bands, and speakers that will bring awareness to the community. As I stated before we are excited to announce Family Dollar as […]
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What exactly IS a ‘Tag Cloud’? Here is some explanation from Wikipedia…
“A tag cloud (or weighted list in visual design) is a visual depiction of user-generated tags used typically to describe the content of web sites. Tags are usually single words and are typically listed alphabetically, and the importance of a tag is […]
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My brother lives in Columbia S.C. and invited me to come down tomorrow to attend the S.C. Book Festival there. It looks like it is going to be great! I am really looking forward to it. I will post an entry about my experience later!
Interested in finding ‘book sales’? Check out Book Sale Finder .com! […]
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The Private Library by Arthur L Humphreys was originally published in 1897
In the book the author sought to convey “What we do know, what we don’t know, what we ought to know about our books.”
An 1903 edition is available to be read on Google Books .
Thanks to From: JaneyP and the Librarian Google Group for […]
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