November 06, 2013 » MobyLives! Archives

Here’s the thing about ereaders: they are a technology that depends on their exclusive status. They’re really not for everybody, you know? It’s only the young and strong and forward-thinking… Read more »

Technology

Microsoft commissions a sci-fi anthology of stories inspired by...Microsoft — Liam O'Brien
How to keep repackaging Agatha Christie — Simon Reichley
Reading service aims to create the "YouTube of storytelling" — Chad Felix
Your bad habit is Collins Dictionary's word of the year — Zeljka Marosevic

Library Lions honorees are greeted by protestors at the NYPL

Claire Kelley

Opposition to the Central Library Plan was out in force at the annual Literary Lions 2013 gala on Monday night. As trustees, patrons, and guests climbed the steps to the… Read more »

A new awards show for British book design

Christopher King

Design competitions have always been controversial affairs—after all, the standard for excellence is so subjective that the results will always be skewed by the personal tastes of whoever the judges… Read more »

Love, Nina: the confessions of London literati’s nanny

Zeljka Marosevic

In 1982 a 20-year-old woman moved from Leicester to London to take up the occupation of nanny to two boys, to help out their single-mother. She remembers the house was… Read more »

Oklahoma to install library vending machines in under-served areas

Nick Davies

A library system in Oklahoma has announced plans for a vending machine that will be good news for local night owls/bookworms. Soon, a cool new innovation, the library vending machine,… Read more »

Melville House Books

November 6, 2013

Ereaders are for everybody!….with some exceptions

Sal Robinson