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Bookish Tools: You Are What You Read

December 12, 2010 – 10:50 am

So, I love this.
Scholastic has a site called You Are What You Read. The idea is that adults will go in and post their “bookprint” or the 5 books that have most shaped their lives.
What is really fun is that a TON of different celebrities have listed their top 5 most influential books.  You can [...]

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Bookish Tools: Book Sale Finder

September 27, 2010 – 8:09 am

I’ve been getting emails from booksalefinder.com for a long time and cannot believe that I haven’t told you about them yet.
Their site is sort of ugly and crappy, but their service is so very useful.
If you go to their site, there is a map of America.  Click on your state, then your area and see [...]

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Bookish Tools: Flashlight Worthy Books

January 3, 2010 – 8:14 am

I’ve been watching this site for a couple of months and I’m totally obsessed with it.
As I admitted in my last post, I am a list keeper. I  love lists in general.  This site, Flashlight Worthy Book Recommendations, is chock full of lists.
Some of them are your standard bookish lists, “Best Book Club Selections of 2009″ [...]

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Bookish Tools: 5ft Shelf Update

December 30, 2009 – 2:31 pm

I tooted this site’s horn awhile back.
In the post, I made the comment that I wished there was some way to “friend” each other or get updates on your friends’ shelves.  The founder of the site replied to my post, saying that it was in the works.
Well it is up and ready now!
The way that [...]

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Bookish Tools: ReadPrint

November 30, 2009 – 7:44 am

I know that since a lot of the books that have been released online, 1,000 sites with free books listed have popped up.  For me these have never been overly appealing because the sites are so cluttered and set up so poorly.
This morning, I stumbled upon ReadPrint.  The design is simple and sleek.  There are [...]

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Bookish Tools: 5 Foot Shelf

November 20, 2009 – 10:49 pm

I found 5ft Shelf by accident the other day while looking for new book blogs.  It was love at first sight.
The idea is this:  In 1909, the president of Harvard said that everything that makes up a full liberal education could fit on a 5 foot shelf.  He went further, saying that by reading 15 [...]

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