It's been a busy week. This is vacation week for the schools, and a lot of kids have been in the library working on their projects. During their vacation. Imagine.

I feel bad that my postings lately have just been repeating things I've seen elsewhere, but it's just been that kind of a week. However, this is neat:

A friend of mine forwarded me a link to a "library staircase" built into a London apartment. I want to build a second floor on my house just so I can have one of these (more photos.

And here's a few more interesting book-related oddities, from growabrain:

• World's Cutest Bookend
• Photographic Cut-Outs Appear to Prop Up Book Ends (Feb, 1940)
• Alphabet Bookends
• Elaborated bookends by Timothy Richards
• The New Jersey Repertory Company has a new musical called Bookends, about the bookish friendship and partnership of rare book dealers Leona Rostenberg (1908-2005) and Madeleine B. Stern. (From Fade Theory)
• Books To Go

I especially like the last one. I tried to build something like that myself once, but it didn't come out nearly as well or practical.

Posted under Uncategorized on Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 at 9:52 am, by Brian Herzog. Post and comments available via the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.