Looks like the folks at Google were wondering just how many books there are in the world. As of last Sunday, and by their count, that number is almost 130 million. Take a look at their blog entry about this project; they go into all the details of how they came up with this number, [...]

The Huffington Post just came out with a great picture collection of the most WTF cookbooks! They are hilarious! Visit their posting for the complete collection. ¡El Huffington Post acaba de sacar una colección buenísima de los libros de cocina más incongruentes! ¡Están buenísimos! Visite su sitio para ver la colección completa.

I know this will be rather blasphemous to a number of book lovers, but oh well, here are some beautiful pieces of art made out of books. Sé que esto será más bien blasfemo a un número de amantes de los libros, pero bueno, aquí hay algunas hermosas piezas de arte hechas de libros. // [...]

This Argentinean artist, Raul Lemesoff, has transformed an old car into a mobile library. His rolling library named Arma de Instrucción Masiva ( Weapon of Mass Instruction) aims are spreading peace through literature. Este artista argentino, Raúl Lemesoff, ha transformado en un carro viejo en una biblioteca móvil. Su biblioteca rodante llamado Arma de Instrucción [...]

My friend Patrick just send me a link to this cool rolling library! Danish architect David Garcia knows that traveling with books is complicated because they are so heavy, so he came up with this clever design that allows the user to carry half a ton of the books while reading them. I like the [...]

Every so often a new story turns up about some good Samaritan returning books that have been due for decades and decades. Well here’s a similar story involving a former USA president! It seems George Washington checked out two books from the New York Society Library in 1789 and failed to return them. By now [...]

This is a great tongue-in-cheek video about the latest “organizational bio-optical device, known by its commercial name as, Book.” Just imagine, this revolutionary device functions with no cables, needs no recharging, or batteries. “Book” can store hundred of bits of information, it is easy to use, and environmentally friendly! This video was originally produced by [...]

Fahrenheit 451: A Novel by Ray Bradbury My rating: 3 of 5 stars This is one of those books I always heard about, but hadn’t actually read, so I finally got around to it. This short novel follows “fireman” Guy Montag as he begins to question the society he lives in, and its emphasis on [...]

Jeff Howe has a large following on Twitter  – @crowdsourcing – and is trying to get as many people as possible to read the same book and discuss it. Sounds like a great social experiment. Right now the top choice for the book is Fahrenheit  451. To get the full details of this project read [...]

My father just forwarded me an email he received from AbeBooks.com which gathered the top 10 books written by librarians. Here is the content of the email and their selection of books. AbeBooks loves librarians. Librarians love AbeBooks. (And we think everyone else loves librarians too aside from the bean-counters who keep cutting their budgets.) [...]