‘Book Bites’ for Wednesday 8th April 2009

Trick Photography with Books & Magazines – The busy beaver bloggers over at Abe’s Reading Copy Blog always seem to point me in the direction of some great bookish material and today Kathleen added another great’ heads up’ to the list. This time it’s a post over at toxel.com which shows a bunch of pictures set up to incorporate the faces in books and magazines with the people posing with them. Don’t have a clue what I’m talking about? I don’t blame you :o ). Just get yourself along to toxel.com and prepared to be amazed. Thanks Kathleen!

World Digital Library launching on April 21st – As if we aren’t lucky enough to have so much world information at our fingertips already, The World Digital Library Project is about to give us a whole lot more learning material. I”ll let them tell you what that ‘material’ consists of in their own words:

The World Digital Library will make available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from cultures around the world, including manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, architectural drawings, and other significant cultural materials.

Sounds insanely exciting doesn’t it? It certainly does to me, not least because exploring world culture is one of my driving passions. I can’t wait (as I’m sure many of you can’t either), so thankfully it isn’t too long until launch – 13 days and counting. Wahoo! ::via The Guardian

‘Book Bites’bringing you tasty bite-size morsels of bookish news and delight, from around the web.

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Rob, a self-confessed bibliophile, is without any hope of rehabilitation. He gets unnaturally excited over anything book-shaped, and if book sniffing were a crime then he would have been locked up years ago (which wouldn't bother him in the slightest provided his cell was lined with books)

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