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  1. A Digital Shift: Libraries, Ebooks and Beyond - Cory Doctorow

    Original video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=nZFg-uq5zBA

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  2. The Whole Library In His Hands | The Story

    Dick speaks with Brewster Kahle, who is collecting copies of all the books he can from around the world.

    http://www.thestory.org/stories/2012-05/whole-library-his-hands

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  3. Karen Lord - ABC Conversations with Richard Fidler

    Karen Lord grew up in Barbados on a steady stream of books, but one of her favourites was an encyclopaedia of legends and folk stories from around the globe.

    http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2013/03/05/3703885.htm

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  4. Opening The Book

    The book has stayed pretty much the same for over 500 years: a bunch of paper pages between covers. It’s been both finite and easily grasped. But our digitally-connected world is forcing us to re-imagine what books could be.

    Participants in the program:

    Bob Stein, founder and co-director of The Institute For the Future of the Book, New York.

    James Bridle, writer, publisher, editor, technologist, London.

    Hugh McGuire, founder of pressbooks and libravox, co-editor of Book: A Futurist’s Manifesto, Montreal.

    Kylie Mirmohamadi, professor of English, La Trobe University, Melbourne.

    Sue Martin, professor of English, La Trobe University, Melbourne.

    http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/episodes/2013/02/25/opening-the-book/

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  5. Science Weekly podcast: Royal Society science book prize | Science | guardian.co.uk

    This week’s show is dedicated to a discussion of the six books shortlisted for the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books.

    Next week the winner of the prestigious Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books will be announced. Previous winners have included Jared Diamond (twice), Stephen Hawking, Steve Jones, Bill Bryson and Stephen Jay Gould.

    To discuss the merits of the shortlisted books (see below), Alok Jha is joined by one of the prize judges, Kim Shillinglaw, who is commissioning editor for science and natural history at BBC TV, and by science writer Ruth Francis, formerly of head of press at Nature Publishing Group.

    During the course of this week the Guardian will review all the books online. We’re also giving away two complete sets of the shortlisted titles in our usual science trivia competition.

    • The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker
    • The Hidden Reality by Brian Greene
    • The Information by James Gleick
    • My Beautiful Genome by Lone Frank
    • Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer
    • The Viral Storm by Nathan Wolfe

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/audio/2012/nov/19/science-weekly-podcast-science-book-prize

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  6. America’s Facebook Generation Is Reading Strong : NPR

    Young Americans are reading more than just status updates and 140-character tweets. A new study by the Pew Research Center shows that among 16- to 29-year-olds, 8 in 10 have read a book in the past year. That’s compared with 7 in 10 among adults in general.

    http://www.npr.org/2012/10/23/163414069/americas-facebook-generation-is-reading-strong

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  7. Depression-Era Evil: Gothic Horror In A Haunted Land : NPR

    The Night of the Hunter is a much-loved film, but author Julia Keller says the book it is based on is even better —€” a forgotten masterpiece. Do you have a favorite book that became a movie? Tell us in the comments.

    http://www.npr.org/2013/01/01/161408688/depression-era-evil-gothic-horror-in-a-haunted-land

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  8. The future of the cookbook is up in the air

    What’s the future of cookbooks in our shelves and kitchens when that essential recipe is just a mouse click away? We talk to a long-time publisher and a self-confessed ‘foodie tech head’ about what sells on paper and what doesn’t anymore. Is there room for peaceful co-existence between the digital world and that dog-eared, food-stained tome we hold in our hands, or is the cookbook relegated to being a gift that no longer gives?

    http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/rnfirstbite/will-technology-kill-the-cookbook3f/4171736

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  9. Lois McMaster Bujold: Crime Scenes Tend to Be Book-Free Zones | Underwire | Wired.com

    The author of the Vorkosigan Saga talks about biotechnology, cryonics and women’s liberation.

    http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/12/geeks-guide-lois-mcmaster-bujold/

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  10. Guardian Books podcast: Writing and illness | Books | guardian.co.uk

    A look at literature in the sickroom, with Sarah Manguso, Robert McCrum, and a report on how reading itself might help recovery

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/audio/2011/feb/11/writing-illness-books-podcast

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