Eye Candy

More of the world's 20 most beautiful bookstores can be found here.

It all makes sense now.

Sweet nerdery

In celebration of National Library Week, book-themed cakes are the featured Sunday Sweets on Cake Wrecks this week. My favorite is this wonderful one inspired by Terry Pratchett's Tiffany Aching books:




There's also a post on Hobbit-themed cakes.

book shirts!

Another place to spend my money once I win the lottery! Vintage book cover T-shirts from Out of Print.

I want this one for Nico:

Hee!

http://xkcd.com/788/

I love these pajamas

Usually the google keyword ads that pop up in my email inbox range from absurd to useless, but the other day one actually caught my eye. It was an ad for pajamas printed with the dinosaurs from Jane Yolen's How Do Dinosaurs... kids' book series:


The books are super cute (my favorites are How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight? and How Do Dinosaurs Get Well Soon?) and the illustrations are great. I really love the idea of a pair of pjs to match a favorite book.

  

J'adore

The joke's on you, narrow-minded cur!

Holy crap, this is awesome.

Book Autopsies

This stuff by paper artist Brian Dettmer is ridiculously cool:

O Christmas Tree

via LISNews

I'm not a huge James Joyce fan...

...but this is pretty ridiculously cool:  Twitter performance of Ulysses, chapter 10.

I have always imagined that heaven will be a kind of library (Jorge Luis Borges)

And I suspect it will look something like this:


This is the Real Gabinete Portugues De Leitura, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, as pictured in 20 of the World's Most Beautiful Libraries. Neil Gaiman (yes, really) was kind enough to post a link to the article on Twitter with the tag "libraryporn." I believe I would actually weep if I was standing in some of the libraries pictured in the article.


Also, the fabulous and ridiculously funny Cake Wrecks did a feature recently on cakes inspired by books, which possibly equals the library porn post in awesomeness, albeit a different genre of awesomeness.

"Bookish Landscapes" on Things Look Like Things