Well, ironically, I am able to post more here on the slow connections of the central Ontario internets than I was on the blazing highspeed of Toronto, in part because I have some actual time—I don’t have to worry about the kids running into traffic or being abucted or anything, though I did recently hear banjos playing in the woods. I wonder what that’s all about…?

Moby announces book trailer winners

Harvard and Stanford working to bookless libraries

File under, Well, Duh: Books in home as important as education level of parents in predicting intelligence of kids

New e-reader, the Novel, actually looks good

… Which is good because ebook sales are waaaay up

Does a growth in number of indy booksellers bode well for industry?

More protesters try to arrest Karl Rove (I suggest he starts touring around with a sound technician to play a waa waa waaaaaaa effect every time this happens)

Wimbledon has poet laureate

Gizmodo says your iPhone/iPad is made in a hell factory

Amazon venturing into translation

B&N counters with entering vantiy publishing

Rock tour or book tour?

Attention Nerdly Ninjas: Neil Gaiman has written a Dr. Who episode. End communication.

Stephen Fry seeks most beautiful tweet

NYPL gets in on Improv Anywhere Ghostbusters prank

TKaMB turns 50, gets unpronounceable acronym

More on this “flarf” thing all the kids are talking about these days

Smash your Kindle, ask the hippies…?

…No, no.. Just test it out in college! (Does it come with a beer-proof coating? Because I suspect that will be the main weakness, if not)

First Lady lit—stupi-tastic

Do you like the new Waterstone’s logo? A whole bunch of people don’t

PW throws in with Scribd

Pop-up particle physics? Muon-o-licious!

Will ebooks kill the rare book dealer?

Youth edition of Obama’s book to be published by RH

Location of brain’s language centres refined