Ok, folks. Below is the START of a list of library/librarian-ish tumblrs. Please, if I’ve missed you or your tumblr bff, just drop a note in my ask or email. I’ll throw this in a link on my homepage and I’ll eventually sort by alpha, maybe even by type.
Celebrarians. Word.
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I love obscure words that apply to me. :)
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Amazing Stage Filled With Gigantic Fairy Tale Books via @mymodernmet
Touted as one of the world’s largest music festival, Tomorrowland is known for their unique fantasy amusement park setting. This year, an entire stage was filled with a library of gigantic fairy tale books to create a sort of magical country.
More at mymodernmet.com
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"I love libraries. I love walking through the stacks, immaculate and ordered, reading title after title, and wondering how each might change me. Because, inevitably, everything I read changes me in some way. I see a book and I think, will this one make me a little bit sadder? A little more realistic? Maybe I will see more beauty in all of humanity, maybe more violence and destruction. Thinking of all the possibilities words hold makes me feel so strange, so profoundly respectful towards something so seemingly simple as words on a page."
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Tumblarians
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Postertext
Hang your favorite book on the wall with the book’s text, arranged to depict a memorable scene from the book!
Best literary posters ever.
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Suggested by: sherlockian-rhapsody
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Mary Shelley’s ’Frankenstein’ - Bookbinding by Dimitri
“I wanted the binding to convey the essence of the story, that its mere view could tell you what’s inside, to be intrigued by it. And what would be more iconic for the specific book than to be bound from leather scraps stitched together? I searched at the drawer where I keep leftovers of the leathers I use and took up random pieces. I wasn’t picky, I even chose some with minor stains, and most of the pieces vary in their texture, from smooth to porous to buffed ones. I wanted something a bit “messy” and just a hint gross.
Last but not least, I wanted something really special for the endpapers, so I found some anatomy notes from 1830 and Voila!”
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An important quiz for our times.
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» John Green's tumblr: Why Libraries Are Different From Piracy
Yesterday on twitter, I expressed annoyance with the hundreds of people who send me emails or tumblr messages or whatever to let me know that they illegally downloaded one of my books, as if they expect me to reply with my hearty congratulations that they are technologically sophisticated enough…
