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Black Books: Bernard's Letter
A very funny clip that begins with a frustrated writer and a letter. It
expresses perfectly the range of emotions that inevitably accompany the
receipt of a rejection letter.
Can You Guess the Book?
This is a first lines quiz that tests your familiarity with first lines from books in a wide variety of genres.
Catalog Card Generator
I love this site that allows me to play around and make my own
catalog cards; I can even create my own version of the Dewey Decimal
System. Choose the “printed” version, add a call number, title and
scribbles and watch as the card, looking quite real, appears. These
would make interesting bookplates.
Fun Trivia: Quizzes: Literature
Do you know books and authors? Well, here’s a place to test
yourself with quizzes on plays, poetry, horror, fantasy, humor and
satire, legends, non-fiction, religious literature, mystery and
detective fiction, literature by region and more. They range from very
easy to tough.
Middle Ages Tech Support
If you have ever had to call the Help Desk or Tech Support in
frustration over a computer issue, you’ll love this fantastically funny
clip about what might have happened when books overtook scrolls.
Something Called . . . B-O-O-K
Author Unknown
Announcing the new Built-in Orderly Organized Knowledge device (BOOK). It's a revolutionary breakthrough in technology: no wires, no electric circuits, no batteries, nothing to be connected or switched on. It's so easy to use even a child can operate it. Just lift its cover. Compact and portable, it can be used anywhere-even sitting in an armchair by the fire-yet it is powerful enough to hold as much information as a CD-ROM disk.
Here's how it works: Each BOOK is constructed of sequentially numbered sheets of paper (recyclable), each capable of holding thousands of bits of information. These pages are locked together with a custom-fit device called a binder which keeps the sheets in their correct sequence. By using both sides of each sheet, manufacturers are able to cut costs in half. Each sheet is scanned optically, registering information directly into your brain. A flick of the finger takes you to the next sheet. The BOOK may be taken up at any time and used by merely opening it. The "browse" feature allows you to move instantly to any sheet, and move forward or backward as you wish. Most come with an "index" feature, which pinpoints the exact location of any elected information for instant retrieval.
An optional "BOOKmark" accessory allows you to open the BOOK to the exact place you left it in a previous session-even if the BOOK has been closed. BOOKmarks fit universal design standards; thus a single BOOKmark can be used in BOOKs by various manufacturers.
Portable, durable and affordable, the BOOK is the entertainment wave of the future, and many new titles are expected soon, due to the surge in popularity of its programming tool, the Portable Erasable-Nib Cryptic Intercommunication Language Stylus...(PENCILS).
Unshelved
This is a comic strip for librarians, but anyone who has visited or lurked in libraries or lived with a librarian will also enjoy it.
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