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French photographer Franck Bohbot has created a marvelous series of photographs of the great libraries of Europe - although Harvard Public Library does feature as well - as part of an ongoing project...

Remember that New Hampshire public library which suspended its Tor relay after being approached by local law enforcement (who were tipped off by Homeland Security)? Well, after due consideration (and a...

Be forewarned. This is another John Updike day---when I need to sound so 18th century and anti-new media despite my normal love of technology. Don't tell me to drink another cup...

Late yesterday we posted an item about the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum continuing to gear up to digitize its holdings (including 3-D objects.) Today, we've read that HP is going...
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About that $30M deal between and Amazon and the NYC schools: e-book formats aren’t the only question. How private will students’ book-related profiles be in real life? And will...

Given the scale of library cuts in the UK and elsewhere, and the anger generated by them, it's worth reaching back for a historical precedent that shows just how damaging cutbacks...

For all the effort publishers, reviewers and writers put on the latest best-selling novel, the facts remain that many of us read about (and want) lots of other non-fiction topics.  From...

If you doubt the need for a library-oriented search engine, consider the increasing talk of a pay-per-view approach. Just what we need--a Net full of toll gates. Will Google not only...

From an Overview Paragraph: Since 2006, the BnF (National Library of France) has been responsible for the legal deposit of internet resources. Automatic harvesting is performed 24 hours a day by the...

In California, newly (re)elected governor Jerry Brown has proposed to zero out state funding for libraries. In Britain, government cuts could lead to as much as a quarter of librarians lose their jobs...

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Courtesy of the Kboards, a worrying item about struggling e-book sites and their ability to monetize engagement with Amazon - or not - has...

TeleRead.com is now a static archival site, but we're very much alive at TeleRead.org. Big thanks to Nate Hoffelder of The-Digital-Reader.com, who teamed up on the preservation project with ReclaimHosting.com.