Shift Buzz The Brevard County Public Library system has removed all copies of the novel from shelves. The reason: “We don't collect porn.”
As if books weren’t cool enough by themselves, they go and put them in these awesome buildings.
http://flavorwire.com/240819/the-25-most-beautiful-colleg...
It's like Heaven, only with more books. E-Readers will never be this pretty.
This day an age of technology we can’t forget the analog internet cafes with dark wood, detailed workmanship, leaded glass windows and tier after towering tier of books â classic historic libraries are a bibliophileâs dream.
I may have popped a literary boner for this concept. Olivier Charles created this digital rendering for an International Competition of Architecture for the Stockholm Public Library. (via cgsociety.org)
Culture Buzz College kids like to take naps. Here's a list of the best places they tend to fall asleep. Add your own favorite spots.
BRB, hugging my bookcase forever. Books are the most wonderful things in the universe.
Culture Buzz Alexandra Wallace is a UCLA student whose unbelievably ill-timed, ignorant, racist YouTube rant against Asians is setting the Internet on fire this week. UCLA's student populace and the Internet at large have responded with typical intolerance, escalating the problem to a point where Alexandra Wallace is receiving death threats. So, another good week for TMI, racism, and overreactions. Well done, team.
Everyone makes mistakes. Especially bookstores. This is a list of the best bookstore fails (or wins, depending on how you look at it).
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/30/library-vending-machine/
It's like a regular library, but with slightly fewer homeless people milling around.
http://www.aestheticoctopus.com/2010/09/19/oh-you-library...
William and Mary's library is where all the best orgies happen.
Sometimes you've just got to dance like nobody's watching. (via:thedailywhat)
http://www.neatorama.com/2010/04/23/circular-bookcase/
Whoa. Thanks to designer David Garcia, you can take your library with you. Probably just around the house though. Don't want to cause an accident.