Getting Away With It

I'm David. During the day I work in tech. I go out and visit bookstores on the weekends.

Posts tagged #books

A collection of Things That Make Us Good Adults from the Adulting launch party at Housing Works Bookstore.

The book is Adulting: How to Become a Grown-up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps by Kelly Williams Brown, yet another Tumblr-blog-to-book-deal, and it’s available from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, as well as your local independent bookseller.

Wait sorry I take it back, THIS is Book Deal of The Day!

rachelfershleiser:

EVERYTHING HERE IS THE BEST THING EVER author Justin Taylor’s FLINGS, a collection of new and previously published stories (including “After Ellen,” which recently appeared in The New Yorker) about individuals searching for themselves through a series of vexing relationships, to Michael Signorelli at Harper.

excited!

My point is that I wish we had been able to save the video store. I know the young citizens of the new order don’t miss it, but kids don’t miss anything: they’re kids.
Great Tumblr Book Search: Paul Laudiero has been named the grand-prize winner of The Great Tumblr Book Search, and Chronicle will publish his book (Expletive) Rough Drafts. Think you have a great blog-to-book idea? Chronicle, which has published numerous Tumblr blog-inspired books, says the contest will be an annual partnership.

Book Buzz: Happy 70th Birthday, ‘The Little Prince’

OH HI USA TODAY!

(via rachelfershleiser)

But what the fuck is this (expletive) shit?

The current book situation, here in the villa of no shelf space.

Took some books to Housing Works today, and left with a few new ones.

Back in 1998, when Amazon was just a classic Internet company, full of bits and vinegar, it got into some scrum with Barnes & Noble (more would follow) and issued a press release saying: “Goliath is always in range of a good slingshot.” Real talk! “Your company,” responded Barnes & Noble, “is now worth more than Barnes & Noble, Borders, and all of the independent booksellers combined.” Amazon replied with a memorable one-word press release: “Oh.” It’s not so puckish anymore, because it doesn’t have to be.

thisisgunmachine:

An excerpt from the Gun Machine audiobook, which is read by Reg E. Cathey.

I’ve got some reading to catch up on.

harperbooks:

caterpillarcowboy:

courtenaybird:

Inside an Amazon warehouse (via mager)

I worked the warehouse for half a day in December 2007. It was awesome and exhausting. A computer strapped to my forearm connected to a central server told me where to go and what to do.

This is mildly terrifying.

Incredible.

fuckyeahmanuscripts:

Jennifer Egan’s storyboard manuscript for her Twitter story, “Black Box

As discussed at @codemeetprint’s #twitterfiction event last night. Analog creation of a digital artifact that was also printed in the physical magazine.

Very excited for this. Not long now, yes?

bibliotaku:

yellowdecorations:

Always reblog.

everyone I work with is a punk-ass book jockey

juustsmile-:

violentcurrents:

a-starkid-in-the-tardis:

Merry Christmas book nerds everywhere!

this is the coolest thing i have ever seen

holy shit i want this. someone do this for me. please. PLEASE. 

A very bookternet Christmas tree.

thebookmouse:

incidentalcomics:

Stray Books 

I always wondered how ten more books mysteriously appeared on my bookshelves for every book I finished reading.

I’m currently in the “set them free” part of this cycle.