Good Reads readers' faves.

A bookshelf site, like Goodreads, Librarything (and possibly more). Looks good, but I can never remember to update these things.

Syllabus and lectures online.

"Eclipse is a free on-line archive focusing on digital facsimiles of the most radical small-press writing from the last quarter century. Eclipse also publishes carefully selected new works of book-length conceptual unity."

"A collection of ephemera found between the pages of secondhand books" by Miko from MetaFilter.

"Agrippa (a book of the dead) appeared in 1992 as a collaboration between artist Dennis Ashbaugh, author William Gibson, and publisher Kevin Begos, Jr." It included pages that faded over time, and a Gibson poem that "ran from a diskette once before encrypting itself into oblivion".

"A year ago Faber & Faber commissioned me to help with the design of a software system to generate complete & print ready book covers for their new imprint. The challenge proved to be more of a creative than a technical one, as the task given was to build a “design machine” which would be flexible enough to generate a very large (theoretically infinite) number of unique designs, one for each single book ever printed in this range, within the agreed boundaries set by the art direction(s) of Faber design team."

Satirical novel written by a nine year old!

Interesting Twitter-based way of tracking your reading. Though I just sent it a typo-ridden ISBN number. Oops.

I just signed up to this very pretty and slick site to keep track of what I'm reading/want to read. Not sure I'll use the social aspects, but if anyone's already using it, let me know.

Nice little doc on the footnote.

Doug got me this for my birthday. Read it in a day, found it to be good fun but poorly structured and with a complete flop of an ending - reading the reviews after the fact, I'm mystefied by the hype.

Recommended by Stewart Kelly.

Soothing my hangover from the Book Fest launch (including sponsor list opera!) by combing the schedules.

"What does the popularity of nostalgia lit tell us about ourselves?"

Nice shelving system/room divider thingy.

Beautiful book covers.

They're comics! They're books! They're a joyless synthesis of both!

Edinburgh design bookshop.

With PDF files for download.

A review of Borges: A Life, by Edwin Williamson. (Well, kind of a review, more an extended synopsis.)

Creates the illusion of floating books. Nice.

Think I'll be buying this.

The Open Source Introduction to Microeconomics

Includes a chapter on Scots in Poland.

Looks nice, free unles you want to list >200 books, in which case it's $10.

Nice enough idea, but I've entered a whole slew of favourite books and all the suggestions are books I've already read (which is not to say that I'm well read, rather that this site isn't very good. Or maybe too good, I'm not sure.)

Neato. How about providing a feature that allows for downloading a full backup of all photos before adding frippery like this, eh, Flickr?

Nice bookshelf.

That musical baton meme tuned to books.

The pile of unread books, checked off as I finish them.

The fact that I'd quite like to read this book makes me faintly depressed.

I normally say, 'Well, duh' when folk are sacked for weblogging, but this seems like a case of a weblog being used for 'evidence' after a sacking was decided on. Similar thing happened to a friend of mine, with a better outcome.

Welcome to the DNA of literature—over 50 years of literary wisdom rolled up in 300 Writers-at-Work interviews, now available online—fre

Never read her, but interesting/unsurprising to see that she's only the ninth woman to win since 1901.

Nice line: The worst lit bloggers sound like what you'd get if you seated the title characters from ''Heathers'' around the Algonquin Round Table and gave them a photo of Zadie Smith on a bad hair day.

Audiobooks in .ogg and .mp3 from 25¢