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	<title>Running After My Hat &#187; Books as Books</title>
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		<title>Swept Away by (and for) Books</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My Old Kentucky Blog recently highlighted two of the films nominated for this year&#8217;s Oscar in the short-animations category. One of them really struck me, and I think it will really strike you as well &#8212; if you are someone who&#8217;s ever had a little jolt of excitement at opening a new book&#8230; or dreamt of adding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writerly Distractions and Neuroses: Fiction and Word Counts</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 17:25:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Image: "Doodle with Measuring Tape," by Bryan Reyna] I came across an interesting site this morning, called Renaissance Learning (subtitle: &#8220;Advanced Technology for Data-Driven Schools.&#8221; In general, Renaissance Learning is a resource for (as you might guess) teachers and other educators. One area of the site, the Quiz Store, peddles quizzes about specific books. What interests me today [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Love Story Between (vs. Within) Book Covers</title>
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		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/10/a-love-story-between-vs-within-book-covers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 14:46:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spike Jonze&#8217;s short film Mourir Auprès de Toi (To Die By Your Side): Spike Jonze: Mourir Auprès de Toi on Nowness.com. Read about it &#8212; and watch a brief making-of film &#8212; at Brain Pickings. (And I should probably add, &#8220;&#8230;of course.&#8221;)]]></description>
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		<title>Making an Illuminated Manuscript</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/07/making-an-illuminated-manuscript/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 14:27:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art & Photography]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the category of &#8220;Things Our Ancestors Did to Humble Us,&#8221; this mini-documentary [UPDATE: a little over six minutes long] from the J. Paul Getty Museum: (If you go to the page at the ArtBabble site where I found this, you might also like some of the &#8220;related videos&#8221; in the right sidebar there.)]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>A Conspiracy of Pages</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/06/a-conspiracy-of-pages/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 12:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Etching: "The Hall of Planets," by Erik Desmazières, #5 in a series of eleven illustrating  an edition of "The Library of Babel," by Jorges Luis Borges; click to enlarge] From whiskey river: The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust in them; it was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Books Beyond Books</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/12/books-beyond-books/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 17:35:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The whole e-books vs. traditional books debate spins crazily about one question: What is a book, anyhow? Let&#8217;s pursue that question a step further: What is a reader? Science-fiction (etc.) author Cory Doctorow tackles both questions in a very interesting project of his, called With a Little Help. It&#8217;s a self-published &#8220;book&#8221; &#8212; an anthology [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unbanning Books Month</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/09/unbanning-books-month/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:58:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Reviews]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Miriam Forster, of the charmingly monikered Dancing with Dragons is Hard on Your Shoes blog, has issued a challenge to writers (and readers!). It springs from an annual event sponsored by the American Library Association, called Banned Books Week. From the ALA site: Held during the last week of September, Banned Books Week highlights the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;ll Take a Used Copy, Please</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/07/ill-take-a-used-copy-please/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/07/ill-take-a-used-copy-please/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 12:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Partial amazon.com screen capture, July 9, 2010] Funny thing is, for some books &#8212; not all of them &#8220;great&#8221; ones, either &#8212; I might actually hesitate before deciding to go the cheap route, even with a price spread as broad as this. (I&#8217;m talking about you, you thick-page, large-format &#8220;children&#8217;s&#8221; book on natural history whose [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buh-Bye, Book-Buying Guilt!</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/06/buh-bye-book-buying-guilt/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/06/buh-bye-book-buying-guilt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 17:08:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Missus has a refrigerator magnet which features a head-and-shoulders hand-tinted photo of a wealthy, hoity-toity society-matron sort of woman; the text alongside says, &#8220;&#8216;Frugal&#8217; is such an ugly word.&#8221; (Ha!) Like many people, I suppose, I have great ambivalence about acquiring ever more Stuff. Examined closely, expressions like Wow, that would be so cool! [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Touch and Enter</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/05/touch-and-enter/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/05/touch-and-enter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 19:28:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a comment on yesterday&#8217;s Towel Day post, Marta said: The miracle of the towel! The man who realized this was a man to be reckoned with indeed. That got me thinking: how cool it would be to come up with a&#8230; a something &#8212; an in-joke, an idea, a catchphrase, a little fictional detail, [...]]]></description>
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