A Kimbooktu reader by the name of Peter Thomas recommended this blog for the Top 10 Favorite Blogs of the British magazine PC Advisor. Thank you so much for that! This blog appeared second on the online list, which is to be found here. Below you can read what was said about this blog.
As you know, the Bookish Blog Links are moving to a different location. (See the post about this here.) I have been updating the new location, to be found here, again. All the blogs as featured on the list on this blog from A to K are now on the new site. I hope to include the ‘fresh’ links you send me as soon as possible. Bare with me, it is a lot of work to copy the hundreds of blogs…
Thank you so much for your patience during our move. The new house is wonderful! Even more so, because I now have an entire room for my books. Click ‘more’ to see some before and after shots. The library is not finished yet, but I wanted to give you an idea.
Since most of the jobs around the house are done now, I will be posting again on the regular basis you are used to. If you see anything that might fit my site, e-mail your suggestion to this address.
We are working hard in our new house at the moment. This is why I have been a bit silent. This Monday is the day of ‘the big move’. Hopefully I have a bit more time to post after that. If our internet provider does not forget to move our subscription.
After we are settled I will work hard to post all of your blog links, home libraries and suggestions for posts. Until then, I invite you to take a look at the new setup for the bookish blogs. I have been working on it behind the scenes. I am moving all of the links, which are hundreds, to another place with its own URL. Since I have to copy past all of your links and descriptions, it is quite a lot of work.
I think it is worth it. Check the new site to see what is new and improved: www.bookishblogs.com. If you own a website, I would appreciate a link. If you like an image (200×162) to go with it, click here.
I absolutely love my bookcases. We bought them at IKEA when we moved into our house three years ago. It started with just a few, but as time went by we needed more of them. Now we have four large cases and two small ones. Since I love the ‘classic’ look, I immediately fell in love with the dark brown Markör series.
After much doubt, we have decided to sell them. I have posted an add on a well known Dutch website. If they sell, we plan on replacing them with the (in)famous Billy bookcase series. Even though my bookcases are absolutely beautiful, we have to keep the future in mind. We need a shelving system in my library on which I can build on for years to come.
If you are from The Netherlands and you are interested in buying one ore more of my beautiful bookcases, let me know! You can find the add here. You can also click here to e-mail me about the cases directly. (You can also see them in ‘action here and here.)
As you may have read (here), I am hosting a creative contest which will end March 1. (I have changed the grand prize a little bit.) The winner gets a feature article on this blog. Kimbooktu will conduct an interview with the artist and state their website and contact information in the article. We will also place a banner for the website of the artist on Kimbooktu. Last but not least, I will have the artwork printed and hung it in my library. I will make a photo to prove it.
Since I know there are a lot of creative people reading this blog, I came up with a suitable contest. I would like you to make some artwork for my library. You have no idea how much you, my readers, mean to me. Since most of you are far away, it would be fantastic to have your spirit in my new library.
Since your art will be hung in our library it has to be bookish and printable. Anything goes, as long as you created it. You can take a beautiful photograph of a library. You can draw a reading person. You can make an abstract painting of a book. You can write a poem. Let your love for books and reading run free!
You can click here to learn more and see the entries. You can send your entries here.
The prizes of this contest are sponsored by:
Update: I have extended the deadline to May 1.
My husband and I bought a lovely house recently. This house will get a fantastic library. All of my beloved books will live in a room of their own as from April 2008. I am already thinking of the design and the furniture. It can be perfect with your help…
What to do
I would like to have a piece of art for my library wall. And I want YOU to make it. I would be very proud to have a piece of art by one of my readers in my library. The piece can be anything. A drawing, a painting, a photograph. But a poem, a photoshopped piece of art, or anything else will be brilliant. I will post the entries with the names and – if wanted – contact information on a separate page. This way everybody can admire your work.
Restrictions
There are not many restrictions. Except that the art work has to be printable. The canvas size has to be 40 by 50 centimeters, or the other way around. You can let your imagination run free, but the piece has to be ‘bookish’. You can depict books, a poem, a scene from a book, a reading person, something around Kimbooktu, whatever. Please send me an image of your work, which is no larger than 500 pixels on the widest, so I can publish it on Kimbooktu. I will contact the winner for the 40×50 image, so I can print it.
The prizes
My husband and I will pick four winners. We will post the names on the 15th of March 2008. The four most beautiful pieces, in our view, will get five Eco-Libris stickers. Every sticker represents a tree which will be planted in your name. (Read more about Eco-Libris in this previous post.)
The winning piece will be printed and hung in our library. We will make a photo to prove it. Kimbooktu will also write a separate post about the image with the contact information and website of the maker, so interested parties can directly contact the artist to buy the artwork.
Disclaimer
Kimbooktu and Eco-Libris can use the pieces of art as send in by the makers on their websites, but not for financial gain. If the artwork is used by any other medium, the laws and conditions of the country of the artist apply. If you would like to use an image, please contact (Kimbooktu for the details of) the maker.
You can send your entries here. (You will find this article and the entries via the image as stated below in the sidebar, or via the blue bar on the top of your screen.)
The prizes of this contest are sponsored by:
Kimbooktu is leaving for a short Christmas holiday tomorrow. I wish all my readers a very ‘gezellige’ (which is Dutch for ‘cozy’) Christmas!
I heard the bells on Christmas Day
Their old familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet the words repeat
Of peace on Earth, good will to men!
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
Kimbooktu has turned one today. On December 21. 2006 I posted the first entry. It has been quite a year. I never thought that making a website about bookish gadgets would be so popular. I only created this blog, because I always wanted to read one. I hoped there would be some other book lovers around who had the same wish. And so there were!
Thank you all so much for your tips, your comments, your wise words and your overall enthusiasm. I cannot tell you how much it means to me. I was overwhelmed when you nominated me for me for the 2006 Best of Blogs award. And that your votes made me win. This is only one of the highlights in the short existence of Kimbooktu.
Below you will find some stats, measured today, about the first Kimbooktu year.
Total Views: 116,606
Best day: 2,955 views on January 4. (thanks to an article in the ALA newsletter)
Amount of posts: 398
Amount of comments: 835
Technorati Authority: 116
Blog reactions noted by Technorati: 391
Google hits on “Kimbooktu”: circa 25.400
