Books Found in Interesting Places

Ran across two interesting articles today and ironically they were both about the return of a book after 60 years or more later.
One of the books was a book of art compiled by Hitler for a planned musuem, the ‘Fuhrermuseum’.  The book was removed from Hitler’s home and is to be returned to Germany in [...]

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Shelf-Awareness.com intruduced me to an article in the N.Y. Times, “Target Can Make Sleepy Titles Into Best Sellers“. The post on Shelf-Awareness.com said, “In the last few years, Target has become “a tastemaker for books” through its book club and the Bookmarked Breakout program, both started in 2005, the New York Times wrote. The programs [...]

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The Library of Congress Blog posted the following:
“The Library of Congress often provides Bibles from its vast
collections for the use of Members of Congress during their swearing-in
ceremonies. But it is not every day that a president-elect makes the
same request for his inauguration. It is rarer still when that Bible is
the same one upon which Abraham [...]

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Read a good book (you already know how to do that)
Register it here (along with your journal comments), get a unique BCID (BookCrossing ID number), and label the book
Release it for someone else to read (give it to a friend, leave it on a park bench, donate it to charity, “forget” it in a coffee [...]

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bookcrossing
n. the practice of leaving a book in a public place to be picked up and read by others, who then do likewise.
(added to the Concise Oxford English Dictionary in August 2004)
The information above and below is from the Website of BookCrossing.com
“You’ve come to a friendly place, and we welcome you to our book-lovers’ [...]

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