The Reading Room

...ikten sonra .... - Ali Numan

Ressamın adı Albrecht Durer. Bahsedilen ressim Dua eden Eller. Bu sekilde arama yaparsanız daha net bilgiye ulasabilirsiniz. - Fleur De Lis from BuddyFeed

Congrats! - John (bird whisperer)

Awesome :) - Eivind

SEATTLE — Amazon.com has taught readers that they do not need bookstores. Now it is encouraging writers to cast aside their publishers. Amazon will publish 122 books this fall in an array of genres, in both physical and e-book form. It is a striking acceleration of the retailer’s fledging publishing program that will place Amazon squarely in competition with the New York houses that are also its most prominent suppliers. It has set up a flagship line run by a publishing veteran, Laurence Kirshbaum, to bring out brand-name fiction and nonfiction. It signed its first deal with the self-help author Tim Ferriss. Last week it announced a memoir by the actress and director Penny Marshall, for which it paid $800,000, a person with direct knowledge of the deal said. Publishers say Amazon is aggressively wooing some of their top authors. And the company is gnawing away at the services that publishers, critics and agents used to provide. - CarlC from Bookmarklet

Several large publishers declined to speak on the record about Amazon’s efforts. “Publishers are terrified and don’t know what to do,” said Dennis Loy Johnson of Melville House, who is known for speaking his mind. “Everyone’s afraid of Amazon,” said Richard Curtis, a longtime agent who is also an e-book publisher. “If you’re a bookstore, Amazon has been in competition with you for some... more... - CarlC

The most celebrated living creator of picture books, Maurice Sendak has resurfaced, at 83, with Bumble-Ardy. He says he’s demented, but Dave Eggers finds that Sendak’s uncompromising vision still makes perfect sense. - CarlC from Bookmarklet

Originally shared by RAP on G+.... - CarlC

I'm leaning towards "Drood," since it sounds nice and creepy. - Jennifer Dittrich

"Friðriksson challenges Icelanders to not only consider the negative aspects of American culture, but their own culture as well." - IMMERSE YOUR SELF. from Bookmarklet

Toay feels like the first day in years that I haven't been working on writing a novel. When I took the dog to the market the gulls seemed whiter and the tree shadows more beautiful than usual. Men arranged pylons and filled a hole in Rue Belanger and I did not have to write about them. I did not have to filter anything through my bloody writer's eye, but could just walk through it all like some kind of free person! What did I do today that I've never done before? A bunch of little things. Sewed a patch on the pair of jeans I found on the sidewalk; listened to my new Saraswati mantra on my iPod; took the hand-drum out on the balcony and drummed thank you to the warm sunshine; made a mango and arugula salad and ate the whole thing... - The Real sofarsoShawn from Bookmarklet

I 'stand - The Real sofarsoShawn from iPhone

I never read biographies, always thinking they'd be boring, but someone I respect highly recommends 'em greatly; thereby, I've now started, Kafka's. Read a bit of his writings, so should be interesting. - The Real sofarsoShawn

I just finished a Che biography. That was not boring at all. Let me know what you think of this one. I'm curious how he managed to fill almost 400 pages. - Eivind

I'd like to know what you think about it, too. :-) - Maitani

So far I give this book 4/5, hopefully, it's a genre which intrigues you. Also...if you're wondering, you might recognize, Grayling, from the back pages of the Guardian :) ~ which is how I came to actually read a book of his. - The Real sofarsoShawn

Yes, 4. But it's a collection of essays, not everyone's cup of tea; however, you'll definitely enjoy his ridiculously well-reasoned polemics - The Real sofarsoShawn

Imagine the perfect library book. Its pages don’t tear. Its spine is unbreakable. It can be checked out from home. And it can never get lost. The value of this magically convenient library book — otherwise known as an e-book — is the subject of a fresh and furious debate in the publishing world. For years, public libraries building their e-book collections have typically done so with the agreement from publishers that once a library buys an e-book, it can lend it out, one reader at a time, an unlimited number of times. - CarlC from Bookmarklet

Last week, that agreement was upended by HarperCollins Publishers when it began enforcing new restrictions on its e-books, requiring that books be checked out only 26 times before they expire. Assuming a two-week checkout period, that is long enough for a book to last at least one year. What could have been a simple, barely noticed change in policy has galvanized librarians across the... more... - CarlC

By popular request... we added support for groups inside our iPhone app! It's available since version 1.2. You can see your groups and your friends' groups by going to your profile page. From there it's pretty self-explanatory. Each group will display the description, some details and statistics, and of course the discussions boards, with all the topics grouped by folder. There's also an "Unread Topics" folder which groups (you guessed it) all the unread discussions in that group. The topic page shows all the related comments as well as the ability to add new comments. You can also create a new topic by tapping on the white "+" button on the top right of the folder page, and copy the topic URL in case you need to reference it. (E.g. in an email or any other document.) We hope you enjoy this new widely requested feature - The Real sofarsoShawn from Bookmarklet

One million books, including works by Alan Bennett and John le Carre, have been given away in the UK and Ireland to mark the inaugural World Book Night. They have been distributed at venues including homeless centres, pubs and hospitals in a bid to boost reading. Some 20,000 people were asked to pick their favourite from 25 titles and were then given 48 copies to pass on to friends with their recommendation. - CarlC from Bookmarklet

The BBC Two schedule includes three Culture Show Specials and a premiere of BBC Films' adaptation of Brideshead Revisited. Live broadcasts from World Book Night events in Glasgow, Manchester and London will be broadcast in between the TV programmes. - CarlC

too bad I hate audiobooks - The Real sofarsoShawn

It'd be great if my books for class were audiobooks. :) - Colette

The prelude already gets me: "This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who even, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by war." - The Real sofarsoShawn

This is a very powerful novel. I have always been glad I read it. - Marianne

The title of that book in Norwegian (or German if we want to be fancy :) ) is still used here an expression when we have nothing to report. - Eivind

"But what does it mean to be an Islamic democracy?" - IMMERSE YOUR SELF. from Bookmarklet

To five-year-old Jack, Room is the entire world. It is where he was born and grew up; it's where he lives with his Ma as they learn and read and eat and sleep and play. At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to be asleep when Old Nick visits. Room is home to Jack, but to Ma, it is the prison where Old Nick has held her captive for seven years. ...more - The Real sofarsoShawn from Bookmarklet

I thought Room was very well written and compelling. The characters stayed with me long after I finished. I hope you enjoy it, too. - Fikisha from FreshFeed

anyone else amazed that this was written almost 130 years ago? - !lker yoldas. )°(

"The eight-letter word came top due to the regular placing of an 'E' where the first 'A' sits. Second in the list was 'definitely', which often falls victim to a string of mistakes including mixing up the second 'I' with an 'A'. Another common error is dropping the final 'E'. 'Manoeuvre', which is problematic due to the unusual combination of OE and U, came third and 'embarrass', in which an R or an S often falls by the wayside, was fourth. 'Occurrence' emerged as the fifth most commonly misspelt word due to confusion over the double C and double R." - Kol Tregaskes from Bookmarklet

My seventh grade language arts teacher used to comment that with "separate" you were saved by "a rat." - LB shining

The top 100 books - of all time and of the last year - is out. It shows Dan Borwn's Da Vinci Code is the big seller of the last decade, followed closely by JK Rowling's Harry Potter novels. Interstingly - or distressingly, accordiong to your viewpoint - the world according to Jeremy Clarkson is the 20th bestselling book of all time, measured by the system. But 2010 is the year of Stieg Larsson - his The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and follow-ups easily top the chart. Nielsen Bookscan is the world's largest book tracking service - they collect total transaction data directly from the tills and dispatch systems of all major book retailers. The data covers over 90% of all retail book purchases in the UK – 6,500 retailers in the UK each week. It monitors more than 220,000 different titles selling in a week and the consumer value is on average £30m each week. Nielsen have given us the data which shows: • Book sales since the same time in 1998 • Top 100 books for 2010 • Top 20 fiction, hardback and paperback • Top 20 non-fiction, paperback and hardback • Top 20 children's books. What can you do with the data? - The Real sofarsoShawn

harry potter and twilight.. wow.. i was always glad that I never watched tv now I am feeling happy that I gave up on reading books - yxl

İsmail Tufan değerli araştırmasında ''İndigo, Türkçesi ile "Hintli" kimin elindeyse, ona zenginlik getiriyordu. Bugün petrol neyse, 19. yüzyılın sonlarına kadar indigo oydu. Biz onu daha çok çivit adıyla tanırız. Bitkisel boyarmaddelerin en değerlisi ve en çok kullanılanı. Eskisi kadar olmasa bile, hâlâ önemini koruyor. Onun mavi renk tonunu tutturmak çok zor olduğu için, her zaman değerli boyarmaddeler grubunun en tanınmış üyesi. Burada çivitin çok özel bir hikayesi anlatılıyor.'' diyor, dolayısıyla sadece bu senenin değil çok senenin özel renklerinden olacağı belli 2002-2003 senesinde kotlarda patlamıştı 2007-2008 de yeniden patladı etkisi hala devam ediyor bitmez o. - Ali Numan

↑ ↓ ← → ↖ ↗ - Ali Numan

James Bolivar DiGriz. - Mark H

" Psamathos Psamathides " from Roverandom - J.R.R Tolkien - Alice Cooper

~ this is a sequel to "Merde" which I picked up and was a real awesome eye opener :) Note: rated R for strong language - The Real sofarsoShawn from Bookmarklet

A lot of them are definitely Laugh out Loud funny for sure, & @Bonini, yup though English :) - The Real sofarsoShawn