The results of my six-year-old daughter playing with my label maker when I brought her to the shop Saturday.

From Reuters:
Now experts at the Heidelberg University library say dated notes scribbled in the margins of a book by its owner in October 1503 confirm once and for all that Lisa del Giocondo was indeed the model for one of the most famous portraits in the world.

Bibliopolis, who make Bookhound (the database program I use), has put together a fantastic aggregator of bookselling blogs. Great layout, slick design. Hmmm…Don’t see me on there though….

Ian, I see your strangely mesmerizing video of making ones own vacuum tubes and I raise you one oddly beautiful and poignant video of melting chocolate bunnies by Sander Plug.

It dawned on me yesterday, now that the holidays have calmed down, that Thanksgiving marked the one year anniversary of my taking over the shop. It’s my one-year birthday as an open shop. In honor of this momentous occasion, I offer:
18 THINGS I’VE LEARNED THIS YEAR (Or: 2007, A Bookseller’s Year in Review)
1) I [...]