New York Public Library has installed a book-on-demand machine and they’ll print any of over 200,000 public domain titles from the Open Content Alliance free of charge for any patron.
The titles include Moby Dick, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and A Christmas Carol. Classics all. Now why oh why can’t we get a system like this going in Ireland?
Paulo Coelho, he of The Alchemist fame, publishes short stories on his blog. The latest is a tale of love, guilt and fear.
It’s worrying how often those three emotions go together. 🙁
“Ginormous” has made it into the latest edition of the Merriam-Webster dictionary. It’s, like, so totally zeitgeist. Although its usage is traced back to British military terminology c. 1948. So perhaps it isn’t as great an example of Americanisation as some would think.