http://kimbooktu.wordpress.com Gadgets for book lovers Sat, 12 Jul 2008 22:26:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Summer is the time of the book fair. Well, there are book fairs all year round, but in The Netherlands most of them are during the summer. We visited two of them recently and I thought it would be nice to give you a small photo impression. I wonder if ... http://kimbooktu.wordpress.com/2008/07/12/dutch-book-fairs/ Nancy Johnston writes for “Read Street”, the blog for readers hosted by the Baltimore Sun. She wrote a nice piece about this blog recently. Click here to read it. She also asked me my Top 5 favorite book gadgets. Click here to read that article. Thank you, Nancy! http://kimbooktu.wordpress.com/2008/07/12/kimbooktu-interviewed-2/ How cute! I want one, I want one! One of Kimbooktu's readers e-mailed a link to this fantastic reading light. The design is quite simple, if you are creative you could even make one yourself. Click here to learn more. Thanks to Sarah for the link! http://kimbooktu.wordpress.com/2008/06/25/reading-light/ Recently I have noticed that a new collection is growing in my library. The shelve, or now shelves, that holds books about books is growing faster then any other shelve or category. I do not only like to read, I like to read about books as well. This can be ... http://kimbooktu.wordpress.com/2008/06/25/books-on-books/ The people of The Design Files did an interview with book artist Nicholas Jones. I thought you might be interested in his work and what he has to say about it. You can read the article here. http://kimbooktu.wordpress.com/2008/06/19/interview-with-a-book-artist/ It's old, so you probably know it. I did not and I found it very funny. http://kimbooktu.wordpress.com/2008/06/19/bill-clinton-library/ Used books and library books can house some hidden treasures. AbeBooks has a fun article about the stuff people find in books. You can read the story here. http://kimbooktu.wordpress.com/2008/06/12/book-treasures/ Or better: snow every day of the year! This bookcase is beautiful. If will not be easy to house books in it without damaging them or putting them in a strange position all together. But the case looks great, I have got to say. It would work great as a ... http://kimbooktu.wordpress.com/2008/06/06/snow-in-summer/ 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 ... http://kimbooktu.wordpress.com/2008/06/05/kimbooktu-in-favorite-blog-top-10/ 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 ... http://kimbooktu.wordpress.com/2008/06/01/bookish-blog-links-update/