- In Cramped Japan, the iPad Is the Home Library – BusinessWeek Book-scanning start-ups making it big in Japan.
- The Smell of Books The Smell of Books: "Lignin, the stuff that prevents all trees from adopting the weeping habit, is a polymer made up of units that are closely related to vanillin. When made into paper and stored for years, it breaks down and smells good. Which is how divine providence has arranged for secondhand bookstores to smell like good quality vanilla absolute, subliminally stoking a hunger for knowledge in all of us."
- Authors finding digital readers want their Kindles signed Chalk one up for digital souvenirs (sort of).
Stop Press for February 11th
February 12, 2011
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