Tuesday, July 17, 2007
New Address, New Look!
On The Same Page has moved to a new address: http://sweetwaterlibraries.com/sclsblogs/readeronthesamepage/. The blog has been accepted by the Sweetwater County Library System and will look different but have the same focus and mission; sharing information about libraries, books, reading and related technology. Thanks for all the contributions and look for more exciting things to come!
Saturday, July 14, 2007
Would Libraries be Created Today, if There Weren't Any?
If Public Libraries Didn’t Exist, Could You Start One Today?
Raise your hand if you hate libraries.
Even though this blog doesn’t enable me to peer through the screen into your living room (yet), I am guessing there aren’t a lot of raised hands out
there. Who could possibly hate libraries?
Here’s one guess: book publishers. I am probably wrong on this, but if you care about books, hear me out.
Read the discussion started by Steven Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner here.
Raise your hand if you hate libraries.
Even though this blog doesn’t enable me to peer through the screen into your living room (yet), I am guessing there aren’t a lot of raised hands out
there. Who could possibly hate libraries?Here’s one guess: book publishers. I am probably wrong on this, but if you care about books, hear me out.
Read the discussion started by Steven Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner here.
Harry Potter - Green?
Going Green, One Blockbuster Book at a Time
July 13, 2007
By Kimberly Maul
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows may have the largest first print-run of a book ever, but at least it is going green. Scholastic previously announced that the book will be printed on paper that contains at least 30 percent post-consumer waste fiber and 65 percent of the paper used in the printing will be certified by the Forest Stewardship Council.
Read entire article at the Book Standard
Here are a few numbers to consider as anticipation builds for this unprecedented publishing phenomenon:
• 12 million — Total number of books in the first U.S. printing, the largest first printing of any book in history, beating out the runner-up by 1.2 million books. The runner-up was 2005's Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, which had a first printing of 10.8 million copies and sold 6.9 million copies in the first 24 hours of its release, making it the fastest-selling book in history.
• 65 percent — The percentage of the paper used in the U.S. first printing of Deathly Hallows that will be certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), making Harry Potter's seventh installment the largest purchase of FSC-certified paper to be used in the printing of a single book title. All of the paper will contain at least 30 percent post-consumer waste fiber.
• 100,000 — Deluxe edition sets of Deathly Hallows available in the U.S., featuring an exclusive wraparound jacket and full-color frontispiece by illustrator Mary GrandPré, along with a foil-stamped slipcase. List price for the deluxe edition is $65, compared to $34.99 for the regular book, although both prices are being deeply discounted by many booksellers.
• 37, 10 and seven — The number of libraries, cities and weeks for the cross-country Knight Bus National Tour sponsored by Scholastic. The tour features a triple-decker purple bus decorated like the magical bus Harry rides in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Fans can add their thoughts about the series to a video journal when the bus stops in their town.
• 1,700 — Fans who will get to meet Rowling for a midnight book-signing party at London's Natural History Museum on July 21. Five hundred lucky winners, chosen at random, will also attend her midnight reading prior to the signing. And seven of these fortunate youngsters will be from the U.S., courtesy of an online sweepstakes from Scholastic (www.scholastic.com/harrypotter).
• 325 million — Total sales of the first six Harry Potter books to date, worldwide. • 120 million — Number of Harry Potter books in print in the U.S. alone.
• $3.5 billion — Total gross worldwide for the Harry Potter films (so far).
• 138 minutes — Reported running time for the film version of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, to be released in the U.S. on July 11. Not bad, considering the length of the book (870 pages).
• 12 — Number of Harry Potter stamps to be released by the United Kingdom's Royal Mail. The stamps will feature the cover art from Bloomsbury's British editions of all seven novels, as well as the Hogwarts school crest and the emblems for each of its four houses.
• $265 million — Expected cost to build "The Wizarding World of Harry Potter," a theme park set to open at Universal's Orlando Resort in 2009. Visitors will be able to immerse themselves in the village of Hogsmeade, the mysterious Forbidden Forest and, of course, Hogwarts castle. "The plans I've seen look incredibly exciting, and I don't think fans of the books or films will be disappointed," Rowling says of the project.
You can read more from BookPage here.
July 13, 2007
By Kimberly Maul
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows may have the largest first print-run of a book ever, but at least it is going green. Scholastic previously announced that the book will be printed on paper that contains at least 30 percent post-consumer waste fiber and 65 percent of the paper used in the printing will be certified by the Forest Stewardship Council.
Read entire article at the Book Standard
Here are a few numbers to consider as anticipation builds for this unprecedented publishing phenomenon:
• 12 million — Total number of books in the first U.S. printing, the largest first printing of any book in history, beating out the runner-up by 1.2 million books. The runner-up was 2005's Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, which had a first printing of 10.8 million copies and sold 6.9 million copies in the first 24 hours of its release, making it the fastest-selling book in history.
• 65 percent — The percentage of the paper used in the U.S. first printing of Deathly Hallows that will be certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), making Harry Potter's seventh installment the largest purchase of FSC-certified paper to be used in the printing of a single book title. All of the paper will contain at least 30 percent post-consumer waste fiber.
• 100,000 — Deluxe edition sets of Deathly Hallows available in the U.S., featuring an exclusive wraparound jacket and full-color frontispiece by illustrator Mary GrandPré, along with a foil-stamped slipcase. List price for the deluxe edition is $65, compared to $34.99 for the regular book, although both prices are being deeply discounted by many booksellers.
• 37, 10 and seven — The number of libraries, cities and weeks for the cross-country Knight Bus National Tour sponsored by Scholastic. The tour features a triple-decker purple bus decorated like the magical bus Harry rides in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Fans can add their thoughts about the series to a video journal when the bus stops in their town.
• 1,700 — Fans who will get to meet Rowling for a midnight book-signing party at London's Natural History Museum on July 21. Five hundred lucky winners, chosen at random, will also attend her midnight reading prior to the signing. And seven of these fortunate youngsters will be from the U.S., courtesy of an online sweepstakes from Scholastic (www.scholastic.com/harrypotter).
• 325 million — Total sales of the first six Harry Potter books to date, worldwide. • 120 million — Number of Harry Potter books in print in the U.S. alone.
• $3.5 billion — Total gross worldwide for the Harry Potter films (so far).
• 138 minutes — Reported running time for the film version of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, to be released in the U.S. on July 11. Not bad, considering the length of the book (870 pages).
• 12 — Number of Harry Potter stamps to be released by the United Kingdom's Royal Mail. The stamps will feature the cover art from Bloomsbury's British editions of all seven novels, as well as the Hogwarts school crest and the emblems for each of its four houses.
• $265 million — Expected cost to build "The Wizarding World of Harry Potter," a theme park set to open at Universal's Orlando Resort in 2009. Visitors will be able to immerse themselves in the village of Hogsmeade, the mysterious Forbidden Forest and, of course, Hogwarts castle. "The plans I've seen look incredibly exciting, and I don't think fans of the books or films will be disappointed," Rowling says of the project.
You can read more from BookPage here.
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
World eBook Fair
July 4th to August 4th
Download Your Selections From 3/4 Million Total eBook Files Available. World eBook Fair will have tons of titles but will not have new titles or many that you are used to seeing.
They are currently offering free access for the month of July. Join the World Public Library and view all of the World eBook Fair titles all year long.
Download Your Selections From 3/4 Million Total eBook Files Available. World eBook Fair will have tons of titles but will not have new titles or many that you are used to seeing.
They are currently offering free access for the month of July. Join the World Public Library and view all of the World eBook Fair titles all year long.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
'Phoenix' Rises in 4,285 Theaters
July 11, 2007
By Gregg Kilday
Moviegoers shouldn't have to search far to find Warner Bros. Pictures' Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, which opens today nationwide. The film plans to work its magic in 4,285 theaters, the widest domestic opening ever for a Warners movie, and it will employ more than 9,000 prints in North America.
Read the entire article at Book Standard.
Look at the movie at local theatres : http://www.sweetwaternetwork.com/entertainment/movies/
July 11, 2007
By Gregg Kilday
Moviegoers shouldn't have to search far to find Warner Bros. Pictures' Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, which opens today nationwide. The film plans to work its magic in 4,285 theaters, the widest domestic opening ever for a Warners movie, and it will employ more than 9,000 prints in North America.
Read the entire article at Book Standard.
Look at the movie at local theatres : http://www.sweetwaternetwork.com/entertainment/movies/
Sunday, July 8, 2007
Simple Genius by David Baldacci
Michelle Maxwell, a tough competent ex-Secret Service agent, and Sean King, a strong good-looking, connected risk taker form an unbeatable investigative team. Normally of a robust nature, Michelle is having uncharacteristic emotional problems stemming from an unconscious repressed memory. Sean finds work investigating the death of a mathematical genius at a Virginian think tank, coincidentally across the river from a highly secret CIA property. The reader is compulsively drawn into the discovery of an autistic young girl left alone by the death of her father: the genius Monk Turing. Sean is joined by the emotionally compromised Michelle to investigate yet another suspicious death on the grounds of the think tank. Babbage Town, modeled after Bletchley Park where code breakers worked on German transmissions during World War 
II, form the colonized area for a computer programming think tank, or is it?
David Baldacci weaves a complex story of intrigue with likable characters, to pull the reader though the intrigue of Washington back door politics, the CIA, questionable interrogation tactics, quantum computers, the history of Camp Peary; an unacknowledged CIA property, and psychological mysteries of the personal kind.
While the book is fiction, David Baldacci uses some interesting references to real people. Charles Babbage (a name also popping up in the movies "Rain Man" and "National Treasure") is considered the father of the programmable computer. Alan Turing was a code breaker working in Bletchley Park and a genetic predecessor of the fictional Monk Turing. David Baldacci creates Champ Pollion, director of Babbage Town from real life Jean-Francois Champollion, a French linguist who worked on deciphering Egyptian codes. The Beale Cipher is an unsolved code believed to reveal an 1800's buried treasure. The idea for Simple Genius originated from the Beale Cipher mystery.
II, form the colonized area for a computer programming think tank, or is it?David Baldacci weaves a complex story of intrigue with likable characters, to pull the reader though the intrigue of Washington back door politics, the CIA, questionable interrogation tactics, quantum computers, the history of Camp Peary; an unacknowledged CIA property, and psychological mysteries of the personal kind.
While the book is fiction, David Baldacci uses some interesting references to real people. Charles Babbage (a name also popping up in the movies "Rain Man" and "National Treasure") is considered the father of the programmable computer. Alan Turing was a code breaker working in Bletchley Park and a genetic predecessor of the fictional Monk Turing. David Baldacci creates Champ Pollion, director of Babbage Town from real life Jean-Francois Champollion, a French linguist who worked on deciphering Egyptian codes. The Beale Cipher is an unsolved code believed to reveal an 1800's buried treasure. The idea for Simple Genius originated from the Beale Cipher mystery.
Friday, July 6, 2007
From American Libraries: Biblioteca Santiago in Chile
Biblioteca Santiago in Chile
A student filmed and produced this wordless musical video (3:58) that showcases the many types of services and activities available at the public library in Santiago, Chile. The art gallery, reading rooms, storytime, internet terminals, martial arts class, the graphic novel collection, the café, even the restrooms are featured....YouTube, June 1 What a great library!
A student filmed and produced this wordless musical video (3:58) that showcases the many types of services and activities available at the public library in Santiago, Chile. The art gallery, reading rooms, storytime, internet terminals, martial arts class, the graphic novel collection, the café, even the restrooms are featured....YouTube, June 1 What a great library!
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