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Gabriel García Márquez’s Archives Now Online

Posted on December 13, 2017 by Dlachenm

University of Texas bought Gabriel García Márquez’s archive in 2014, and the Harry Ransom Center in Austin has now released the complete digitized collection. This includes rough drafts and manuscripts, unpublished work, notes, letters, and an audio recording of García Márquez’s Nobel…

Tagged with: Archives, Books, digitization, latin american authors, public domain
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First Major Exhibit on Cornell University Witchcraft Collection

Posted on November 21, 2017 by Cristina Pattuelli

Out of the personal library of Cornell University’s cofounder Andrew Dickson White came the Cornell University Witchcraft Collection, which holds over 3,000 objects on superstition and witchcraft in Europe, mostly acquired in the 1880s. “He was interested in people on the margin and the…

Tagged with: Books, cornell, witch, witchcraft, women
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This is what a 16th century e-reader looked like

Posted on May 11, 2017 by Cristina Pattuelli

It’s easy to take thousands of books on holiday with you these days thanks to the e-reader, a device that can store enough books to keep you reading for months. E-readers are especially great for people who like to read…

Tagged with: Books, E-readers, Reading
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Obama’s Secret to Surviving the White House Years: Books (click photo for link to article)

Posted on January 20, 2017 by Dlachenm

In this January 16th article by MICHIKO KAKUTANI from the New York Times, President Obama talks about his vice (books) he uses to deal with the aggravation, confusion, hardship, and the enormous pressure of being the President of the United States of America.…

Tagged with: Books, books to read, Information overload, President Barack Obama, Reading, reading list
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