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Papercuts Welcome: 7 Books You Shouldn't Read as eBooks
Papercuts Welcome: 7 Books You Shouldn't Read as eBooks
By Alex Trivilino
April 23, 2014

Put down your iPhone, iPad, iWhatever for a second, and pick up one of these collections of printed sheets of paper bound together to tell a story. You know, books.

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Celebrate National Library Week with 10 WTF Facts About New York City Libraries
Celebrate National Library Week with 10 WTF Facts About New York City Libraries
By Adina Applebaum
April 14, 2014

National Library Week is about to get stranger than you ever thought it could be.

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The Past as Another Country: Historical Places That Weren't Actually That Great
The Past as Another Country: Historical Places That Weren't Actually That Great
By David Forbes
March 27, 2014

Ancient Sparta, Imperial Rome, 1960s San Francisco — all shit-holes.

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Don’t Let This Never-Ending Winter Get You Down: 20 Motivational Author Quotes
Don’t Let This Never-Ending Winter Get You Down: 20 Motivational Author Quotes
By Michelle King
March 26, 2014

Your Seasonal Affective Disorder may now be chronic, but that doesn’t mean you should quit writing.

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Celebrate St. Patrick's Day with the Tipsy Words of 7 Irish Authors
Celebrate St. Patrick's Day with the Tipsy Words of 7 Irish Authors
By The Illiterate Review
March 17, 2014

Seven Irish writers walk into a bar ...

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Epic Books That Could be TV Miniseries
Epic Books That Could be TV Miniseries
By Robert Balkovich
March 12, 2014

Too grand for the big screen, these books would be just right for a television run.

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Happy Mardi Gras: Literary Characters You Would Love to Party with Off the Page
Happy Mardi Gras: Literary Characters You Would Love to Party with Off the Page
By Freddie Moore
March 04, 2014

What better way to celebrate Carnival than with a parade of characters who know how to get down?

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Book Sword: Marcel Proust, Dylan Thomas, Ian McEwan & More
Book Sword: Marcel Proust, Dylan Thomas, Ian McEwan & More
By Kate Gavino
August 22, 2013

We take literary-minded words and anagram them to find ... deeper meaning? Hidden truth? Happy coincidence?

 

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Directioners: the New Beatlemaniacs
Directioners: the New Beatlemaniacs
By Jake Flanagin
August 21, 2013

Is Twitter rage of One Direction fans the next phase in fandom evolution?

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Strange Finds: “Never Eat Anything Bigger Than Your Head & Other Drawings”
Strange Finds: “Never Eat Anything Bigger Than Your Head & Other Drawings”
By jake goldman
August 20, 2013

A collection of absurd, irreverent one-panel cartoons reminiscent of The Far Side — but this book came first

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