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Lew Jaffe's blog, Confessions of a Bookplate Junkie will delight ... bookplate junkies. Closer to to home, the rather more sober UK-based Bookplate Society site is worth a visit.  Add a comment

The Dennis Wheatley tribute site has the most comprehensive web-based bibliography of the author, and should be of particular interest to those trying to identify true Wheatley first editions.  Add a comment

'Books, Baguettes & Bedbugs' by Jeremy Mercer, is an account of his time at the legendary Paris secondhand bookshop, Shakespeare & Co. The review in the Times, by Terence Blacker, gives a flavour of the book and you can take a virtual tour of the shop  Add a comment

James Bond fans will find anything and everything Bond related at CommanderBond.net.

Rare Book Review (was Antiquarian Book Review) "the world's leading magazine for bibliophiles" have relaunched their website.

Paperback collectors should check out PAN Books, a celebration of the first 21 years and the Penguin Collectors’ Society.

Readerware Corporation has released an updates for the entire line of Readerware products, bringing them to versions 2.90. The applications in the Readerware line are utilities designed for bibliophile book cataloging...more

The Miniature Book Society is planning their annual Conclave at the Hilton Hotel in Bath, England starting on Friday, September 3 and running through Monday, September 6, 2004...more

Richard Evans Lee's weblog - Books do Furnish a Room - about life and his bookshop in Durham (North Carolina) is worth returning to.

If endless e-mails requesting free book valuations are getting you down, you might find this amusing. You may also think that their Beekslayers mailing list a worthy successor to the late, great, BiblioMANIA.

I seem to have bought a lot of antiquarian books recently and have found the Roman Numeral & Date Conversion site invaluable.

Ephemera has been very popular in the salerooms of late, particularly historic letters and manuscripts. If "Printed material of passing interest" is your thing, the UK Ephemera Society and The Ephemera Society of America, are sites you should visit.

The long awaited new issue of the IOBA Standard now live.

The Fifth International Edible Book Festival, April 1st - 5th...more

Recently published, 'The Toby Twirl Adventure Books - 'A Collector's Guide'. tobytwirl.co.uk. Read our review

The Bookologist is a new free twice-monthly e-mail list for booksellers.

"Today being a slow day, I let myself start one more Bookworm Game. Wouldn't you know it, several bonus words lined themselves up early, always a good start for a good score. Three or four hours later, and..."