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How To: Catalog Books with Your iPhone

Sarah over at Apartment Therapy Chicago gives 6 simple instructions of how to use your iPhone's ability to scan barcodes to organize your library: "We just discovered a way to painlessly make a digita...

Apple Tablet to Reshape eBook Market?

As rumors about the upcoming Apple Tablet are swirling around, it's hard to tell what is true and what's not. Ultimately, we know that it's coming and that it will change tablets from being a niche pr...

Are You Wondering Which Ebook Reader to Get?

Fall is here and students are back in school. Ebook readers are here to stay and they embody the modern reinterpretation of books The Kindle isn't the only good ebook reader available anymore. Sony an...

Original Refurbished Kindle Available Drops to $150

If you're one of the millions of students getting back to school, or if you just enjoy reading books, and have always thought that spending $300-500 on an ebook reader was too much, then maybe getting...

Flickr Find: A Cluttered Office Done Right

We all want to have those sleek, minimalistic workspaces. An elegant task table with nothing but a power-cord-less laptop, a simple flower arrangement and a cup of coffee weighing it down. But lets fa...

Luciol's Digital Bookmarks Organizes Your Real World Library

While placing bookmarks may seem like an everyday, even mundane, task for some, there's always room for improvement when you make it go digital. In comes Luciol, a digital bookmarking device by Defne ...

Antique Books as a Slim LCD TV Stand?

I was browsing through the new issue of Glamour (it's what Conde Nast is sending me now that Domino is kaputz, plus following cover girl Miley Cyrus is a guilty pleasure), and spotted this interesting...

Two Great Bookshelves: The Good Old US of A and Equations

Bookshelves are fun. I have so many books that they usually overflow any type of bookshelf that I use. They can also hold CDs, DVDs and all sorts of media as well. The trouble is that most people have...

Look! DIY Speakers Hidden in Real Books!

There's something a little puzzling about this messy and less-than-chic bookshelf—and it's not "Why in the world does this person own and display a lava lamp?" No, the head-scratcher is "Where t...

Video Game Titles Fashioned Into Book Covers

We stumbled upon this collection of popular video game titles re-imagined as if they were books and art made of their cover illustrations. We think a bunch of these would make great pieces to hang on ...

Billy's Brother: A Great-Looking Slanted Bookshelf

Shelving is one of the things that can be easily improved in any home. It's something that most people just forget because we all have so much to store. You can either get rid of your extra things, if...