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03.07.08.
Private detectives
hunt for late library books
Private detectives are being drafted in by Norfolk County Council
to track down people with unpaid bills for overdue library books
and school transport
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Rowling blow
to plans to age-band books
Publishers’ plans to make all children’s books carry age guidance
were in tatters last night as JK Rowling came out in opposition
to the move. The support of the Edinburgh-based Harry Potter creator
was welcomed by authors determined to sabotage moves to introduce
age-banding on all children’s titles by the autumn
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Convention
books Superman artist
Superman comic book artist Frank Quitely is one of the guests booked
for next year's Highlands comic convention
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Book arbitrage
In our blitzkrieg assault on a town’s thrift stores, we didn’t bother
with the clothes, shoes, or bric-a-brac. We were interested in books,
and only books. Working methodically, shelf by shelf through whatever
chockablock collection of battered, secondhand bookcases the store
had marshaled to house its collection, we would pull out any title
that appeared to have value
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01.07.08.
Long-lost
journal will stay in NZ
A Dunedin private book dealer says he will not now be selling overseas
a long-lost journal of Edward Jerningham Wakefield, one of New Zealand's
best-known early colonists
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The return
of the bookseller catalog
Publishers might be considering giving up on the printed catalogs
but bookseller catalogs are making a comeback. Since the early days
of bookselling the catalog was the cornerstone of a bookseller's
business. It was the premier sales channel for the trade. They became;
however, an early casualty of online bookselling. Many booksellers
completely abandoned the catalog format while focusing on developing
an online presence. Most of us thought they were no longer necessary.
Now, a little over a decade later, most have returned to the catalog
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Historic
central library in shambles
The biggest library of Hyderabad boasting of majestic architecture
of the Nizam's times now greets its over 700 daily visitors with
crumbling walls, dust-laden books, rickety chairs with seats hanging
loose and book shelves with broken glass panes that make a mockery
of the locks guarding them. The original 'grand' counter is no more
in use because "the ceiling above can fall any time"
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The world
of the used book
“I love inscriptions on flyleaves and notes in margins. I like the
comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned, and reading
pages someone long gone has called my attention to.” So wrote Helene
Hanff, author of 84 Charing Cross Road, the definitive novel about
the lure and grip of used books. Hanff knew the power of the musty
book smell, the red-pen underlines, the bent-down pages that meant
someone, somewhere marked that spot as the phone rang, the baby
cried, or the clock ticked well past bedtime
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