Digg - What the Internet is talking about right now http://digg.com/tag/books Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:42:10 +0000 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:42:10 +0000 15 The only excerpt from Questlove's book that you need to read. http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/06/18/questlove_on_roller_skating_with_prince_an_excerpt_from_his_new_book_mo.html http://on.digg.com/15fwDZW Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:34:13 +0000 The late Steve Jobs took center stage Monday in the latest twist in the Apple antitrust trial on ebooks. http://www.businessinsider.com/mysterious-steve-jobs-emails-hang-over-apple-trial-2013-6?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2Falleyinsider%2Fsilicon_alley_insider+%28Silicon+Alley+Insider%29 http://on.digg.com/11M2Kzh Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:50:33 +0000 JPEG image compression is lossy. Every time you edit and save a picture, some of the original content is lost. But it's difficult to see that with the naked eye, so I compressed Shakespeare instead. http://www.tomscott.com/romeo/ http://on.digg.com/17fKZk6 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 03:28:10 +0000 A new form of DRM developed in Germany alters words, punctuation and other text elements so that every consumer receives a unique version of an eBook. http://torrentfreak.com/new-drm-changes-text-of-ebooks-to-catch-pirates-130616/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Torrentfreak+%28Torrentfreak%29 http://on.digg.com/1bKwFN1 Sun, 16 Jun 2013 17:47:24 +0000 Cue, Apple's senior vice president of Internet software and services, says he had to convince Jobs to pursue iBooks, and he only had a couple months to make it happen before the iPad announcement. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57589254-37/steve-jobs-initially-didnt-want-an-ibookstore-eddy-cue-says/ http://on.digg.com/13IBHGQ Thu, 13 Jun 2013 22:21:09 +0000 A quick look at a book that catalogues all the treasures museums don't display. http://www.messynessychic.com/2013/06/13/secret-museum-the-treasures-they-dont-display/ http://on.digg.com/12JAZOf Thu, 13 Jun 2013 20:49:13 +0000 The book is better than the movie. Or TV show. And the movie is inevitably better than the video game, right? It's an article of faith: The first thing is the best thing. But it's not so clear that's the case with HBO's "Game of Thrones" and its source material, George R.R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire." http://www.grantland.com/blog/hollywood-prospectus/post/_/id/79360/the-new-gods-vs-the-old-is-game-of-thrones-better-as-a-show-or-a-series-of-books http://on.digg.com/172XZJK Wed, 12 Jun 2013 18:01:19 +0000 Whenever disaster strikes Superman’s Metropolis, it seems that the first building damaged in the comic book city is the Daily Planet – home to mild-mannered reporter Clark Kent, his best buddy Jimmy Olsen, and his gal pal and sometimes rival Lois Lane. http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/design/2013/06/the-architecture-of-superman-a-brief-history-of-the-daily-planet/ http://on.digg.com/11VW9RV Wed, 12 Jun 2013 17:00:32 +0000 Anne Frank was born June 12, 1929, 84 years ago today. http://www.latimes.com/features/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-anne-frank-birthday-20130607,0,2324748.story http://on.digg.com/11voaj4 Wed, 12 Jun 2013 16:04:14 +0000 Books are screened out if they include too much profanity, anti-American or extremist themes, or “too much sex and violence,” the chief librarian said. Still, “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” made it through the filter. http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2013/06/14/books/review/16savage-slides.html http://on.digg.com/11vLflN Wed, 12 Jun 2013 15:51:01 +0000 On April 9, 1959, the U.S. kicked off its own space age by introducing the country to its first astronauts, known as the Mercury Seven. Their story is well known, but the story of their wives is often overlooked. http://www.npr.org/2013/06/12/189555137/with-space-bound-hubbies-astrowives-became-first-reality-stars http://on.digg.com/12lDl4t Wed, 12 Jun 2013 15:01:18 +0000 Is Obama Big Brother, at once omnipresent and opaque? And are we doomed to either submit to the safety of unthinking orthodoxy or endure re-education and face what horrors lie within the dreaded Room 101? http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/06/so-are-we-living-in-1984.html http://on.digg.com/19nzfvM Wed, 12 Jun 2013 12:04:57 +0000 Sometimes a word travels through such a twisted path to get to its modern meaning that all you can do is scratch your head and wonder how civilization manages to keep itself going. http://listverse.com/2013/06/10/10-everyday-words-with-unexpected-origins/ http://on.digg.com/13wNx8w Wed, 12 Jun 2013 01:21:48 +0000 Comics are literature, and this is the canon. http://www.buzzfeed.com/summeranne/60-comics-everyone-should-read http://on.digg.com/12eZxgx Tue, 11 Jun 2013 21:40:14 +0000 Thanks to the ongoing National Security Administration surveillance scandal, George Orwell's "1984" is enjoying a surge in popularity, landing at No. 4 on Amazon's list of "Movers and Shakers." http://www.latimes.com/features/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-nsa-surveillance-puts-george-orwells-1984-on-bestseller-lists-20130611,0,5672562.story http://on.digg.com/19lPfyk Tue, 11 Jun 2013 19:27:23 +0000 With more than 300,000 books published yearly in the United States alone, editors and publishing companies have to be discerning about what titles they choose to release. Although not every author’s masterwork is cut out for The New York Times Best Seller list, there are some books that are just so downright bizarre that it’s hard to imagine anyone reading them at all. http://mentalfloss.com/article/50925/11-weird-books-really-exist http://on.digg.com/168mXn1 Tue, 11 Jun 2013 12:44:22 +0000 The best way to learn classic cocktail recipes. http://laughingsquid.com/an-illustrated-guide-to-cocktails-50-classic-cocktail-recipes-tips-and-tales/ http://on.digg.com/19j20cZ Tue, 11 Jun 2013 01:32:22 +0000 You're a criminal. Deal with it. http://kottke.org/13/06/you-commit-three-felonies-a-day http://on.digg.com/11CIUtz Mon, 10 Jun 2013 15:39:04 +0000 Why does our perception of time change so dramatically from season to season and year to year? http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/books/2013/06/claudia_hammond_s_time_warped_reviewed.html http://on.digg.com/114b9Ov Fri, 07 Jun 2013 15:45:14 +0000 With bookstores in Japan overflowing with manga, novels and non-fiction, it takes a lot to stand out and get noticed. However, with the advent of the three styles of book stacking we’re going to show, it’s impossible for passersby not to stop and take a gander at these literary works. http://en.rocketnews24.com/2013/06/03/the-avant-garde-art-of-book-stacking-in-stores-of-japan/ http://on.digg.com/14l54OB Fri, 07 Jun 2013 13:52:56 +0000