A Load of Library...

Mull on these whilst I am away...

• WorldCat is stepping up and out with a freely accessible beta... Search for books and "find in a library near you"... also available as a handy toolbar....
• Neighborhood Bookstores (in Washington state and well you may ask, "why should I care?") that offer their Best Picks...
• If you have been waiting for the digital version of Manliness: For Young Men and Their Well Wishers, get yourself over to the Nineteenth Century in Print: The Making of America in Books and Periodicals from the Library of Congress...
• Check out Book Mooch, a new free exchange for used books... and enjoy their awesome illustration above...
• Why I Can't Stop Starting Books... a New York Times Sunday Book Review piece on the disease that fills your nightstand with 5, 6, 27 books you haven't finished yet...
• A comic called Pearls Before Swine addresses writing books for children...
• and here's a vintage piece from YouTube... No Cookies in the Library...