SF Tidbits for 1/30/09
By John DeNardo |
Friday, January 30th, 2009 at
12:09 am
- Interviews & Profiles:
- Drawn! interviews Shaun Tan, who is also profiled on Omnivoracious.
- Joseph Mallozzi interviews Jeff Vandermeer.
- @NewsMiner: David Marusek (Mind Over Ship).
- @Los Angeles Times: Star Trek director J.J. Abrams (part 1), who says that the reboot is true to the original, but also a “completely different experience”. I don’t care as long as it’s good.
- Tor.com serves up some more free wallpaper featuring art by Gregory Manchess and Stephan Martiniere.
- Meanwhile, io9 posts a decent gallery of Pulp SF Book Covers.
- Free Flash Fiction: “The Fallen Angel” by Mike Resnick. [via Fred K.]
- Free Excerpt: Read the first 9 chapters of Eric Nylund’s new book, Mortal Coils.
- Neil Gaiman really digs the button. The video was shot in Gaiman’s home. I would gladly give him many, many buttons in exchange for his library room.
- Amazon prepares to launch new Kindle reader. No details yet on what’s new. [via Bookninja]
- William Shatner remembers Ricardo Montalban. Quite fondly, I might add. Get a room! Oh, and Shatner re-attempts his famous “Khaaan!” yell. Epic fail on that one.
- The Website at the End of the Universe points to this article on How to Stop Accumulating Books. Yeah, as if.
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I always find the articles about controlling your library to be funny. They all talk about having piles of books you haven’t read yet and you should cull the ones you don’t really have an interest in. I currently have 5 books in my apartment I haven’t read yet. Two are library books, one of which is an anothology of novellas I am part way through, one is book about Marc Chagall I’m reading a chapter at a time, one I started and wont finish b/c of excessive vulgarity, and one I borrowed from my dad and haven’t gotten to reading yet. Since my personal library is easily over 300 books, I think that’s a pretty good ratio, don’t you?
One of the points made in the article is why keeps books you might want to read on hand if you can borrow them from the library? While I do use the library a lot, I like to have a lot of books on hand for the many times I want to read something and the libabry is closed, or I’m sick, or I just don’t want to take the time to go to the library and find it. Also, if they’re part of a series it’s sometimes hard to get the whole thing from the library.
Two rules I do go by for culling my library are 1) If I haven’t even wanted to read it for 2 years, it’s time to go and 2) Kkeeping a book for appearance’s sake isn’t a good enough reason to hold onto something I don’t read.