Is your country estate lacking a certain something? Do your friends think you're an intellectual lightweight? The good folks at bookdecor.com can help you out. They're selling antique leatherbound books--most of them written in Danish, but also in French and German--by the foot and by the yard.I'm oddly in tune with Book Decor's sales pitch. … Continue reading Books by the Foot
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Dutch Treat
An article in the travel section of today's New York Times takes readers to Amsterdam and the idiosyncratic bookstore Boekie Woekie. The store sells only books by artists--no mass-produced glossy tomes here--and limited-edition prints and photographs. But the store's bestseller isn't a book at all. It's vacuum cleaner bags full of the dust off the … Continue reading Dutch Treat
Sneaky Peek
You may have heard about Scott McClellan's book What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception. It was scheduled for a June 3 release to the public, but a reporter in DC went into a bookstore and bought a copy in advance of its official release date. How does that happen?NPR … Continue reading Sneaky Peek
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