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One of my bugbears at work is tatty, out-of-date books not being weeded from the library shelves. Many of my colleagues hate to do away with anything but who wants to read a brown paged, dog-eared something from 1974? When I was in the branches I was quite ruthless and weeded constantly. Now I've found a blog that vindicates my stance.
The
Awfullibrarybooks blog is a collection of the worst library holdings. "The items featured here are so old, obsolete, awful or just plain stupid that we are horrified that people might be actually checking these items out and depending on the information. This blog contains actual library holdings. No specific libraries or librarians are named to protect the guilty. Check your shelves, it could be you".
As an EXCELLENT example of their craft, read
this entry (the picture is a taster) - it contains a dire warning about what happens when you don't follow a regular weeding program . . .
Trawling through my blog feeds this morning I came across this in the (often hilarious)
Bookninja blog :
Another of my favourite blogs is the
People Reading blog, the author of which travels around taking photographs of people reading, mostly in San Francisco. (Sadly there haven't been any posts there for several weeks and I am missing it). Anyway, as well as the photo and the title of the book being read, there is usually a little blurb about why they chose that book, their favourite books and authors. Don't know why, but I find the whole thing fascinating.
It all got me to wondering about favourite places to read. My favourite place is in bed, and that's not only because we are still waiting for the man to return the furniture he has been renovating
for the past 8 months!
For the dog lovers . . . this
blog post on Oddee gives the stories of 10 of the most amazing dogs.
My favourite is the one at No. 6 about the Border Collie - go the Dereks!!!!
From the November 08 edition of Reader's Digest found on the lunch room table . . .
When he received a bound diary as a gift, my eight-year-old son was mystified. "Mum, what am I supposed to do with this? The pages are blank."
"You write down interesting stuff that happens to you," I said.
"So it's like a blog . . . on paper?"
