Today is the anniversary of the first printed book, in 868. §

This is some pop-up book.

DineToRead.ie was last week’s TuesdayPush. Seems like a rather well done book club website with regular Real World events. Book clubs aren’t for lonely housewives, honest §

Watch people buying books live. (via @sesdublin)

10 books people lie about having read. I’ve read 1984, Ulysses and Dreams from My Father. Not read War and Peace, The Bible, Madame Bovary, Midnight’s Children, In Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust, The Selfish Gene. I started A Brief History of Time but couldn’t get into it (overhyped?).

Please don’t add multimedia to eBooks. I want to read them on low-power eInk devices with batteries that last weeks. Please don’t add interactive features, I stopped reading Choose Your Own Adventure books when I was 12. Please just give me dead-tree books on eInk. Simple. I’ll pay. §

Annoying when fantasy fiction is mixed in with science fiction. They are quite different, not just elves dressed in lycra with lasers instead of swords. §

Best books of 2008 from Amazon. §

An excellent list of science fiction books. Hyperion is one of my all time favourites, as is Grass. §