Category Archives: Books

“Read at Work” and “Dont Click It”

By Chungaiz | Published: July 24, 2008

Read At Work: Dont Click It Two great websites that deserve to be here on TheScrapBook. Play with them yourself to appreciate what they’re all about!

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Vintage Cocktail Books

By Chungaiz | Published: July 9, 2008

Authentic reproductions of vintage cocktail books to be found here at Cocktail Kingdom

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I used to have so many of these as a child – I’m sure they belonged in fact to my cousins in Pakistan, or possibly even my dad. Brilliant artwork on the covers, but the interiors were awesome too (though a bit dated now). Exploring takes of myth and legend of Mongols, Moghals, warriors, gods, [...]

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Books, Books, Books!

By Silver | Published: June 12, 2008

Some real nice additions to the Dashwood Books site.

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ABC3D

By Chungaiz | Published: June 4, 2008

You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video By Marion Bataille

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Out of Print Books – Back due to popular demand

By Kai | Published: June 3, 2008

Faber and Faber launches print on demand classics to make available a large number of titles which until now have been out of print (P-O-D website: Faber finds). The launch was written about in the Guardian Books section (2 May 2008) and talked about on the Today Programme this morning (3 June 2008). The Guardian [...]

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Young Adults Suffer Information Fatigue

By Chungaiz | Published: June 3, 2008

“Young adults experience news fatigue from being inundated by facts and updates and have trouble accessing in-depth stories, according to a study to be unveiled at a global media conference Monday.” USA Today has an interesting article on the way people’s news consumption habits have changed. I for one have all but stopped taking in [...]

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Book Marketing Becomes Interesting

By Chungaiz | Published: May 15, 2008

So we’ve seen Penguin’s foray into the digital 2.0 world with their Google mash-up for We Tell Stories, but they’re not the only ones doing some interesting book marketing. Chuck “Fight Club” Palahniuk’s latest novel, “Snuff” (out May 20th) is being promoted with a series of spoof trailers, for films called “Chitty Gang Bang“, “Wizard [...]

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Obey Orwell

By Chungaiz | Published: May 2, 2008

Shepard Fairey gives George Orwell’s dystopian classics, 1984 and Animal Farm the Obey makeover for Penguin Books. More at Obey Giant. Thanks to Creative Review

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Dashwood Books

By Silver | Published: April 29, 2008

Dashwood Books is an independently owned bookstore devoted entirely to photograph. Specializing in new and rare vintage books, as well as numerous other out-of-print and quality used titles.