Around the Horn

January 12, 2005

I’ve been noticing some of the fantastic pages that libraries and museums have put up for their book exhibits. Here’s Czech book covers of the 1920s and 1930s and Civil War maps from the Library of Congress, for example.

Fans of audiobooks will enjoy this essay by the pseudonymous Thomas H. Benton at the Chronicle of Higher Education. Link via OPTR.

Thinking about getting rid of some books? This Ask Metafilter thread has lots of suggestions on where to donate your books.

For a year, I was a bookstore employee who blogged, so the story of this book clerk in the UK who got fired for blogging hit pretty close to home.

created The Millions and is its publisher. He and his family live in New Jersey.