Reading After Grad School (Book Riot)
Grad school changed reading for me in ways I both appreciate and regret. My reading life has a depth to it that maybe wasn’t there before, but not the ease it once possessed.
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Radical Librarianship: How Ninja Librarians are Ensuring Patron’s Privacy (Boing Boing)
Librarians in Massachusetts are working to give their patrons a chance to opt-out of pervasive surveillance.
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Five Best Language Translation Tools (Lifehacker)
When you need to translate one language to another, either just to communicate or because you’re trying to read something, you have tons of options—they’re just not all that great at capturing what the original language really meant without sounding silly. This week we’re looking at five of the best, based on your nominations.
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Does Book Touring Still Matter? (John Scalzi)
When I’m out and about and recount my tour adventures to people (I can reel off my itinerary just about in my sleep at this point), the question often arises about whether all this touring is actually still useful and/or desirable…
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Kindle Daily Deal: Caveat Emptor (and others)
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