SHAUN SMITH'S SUNDAY SUNDRIES

A WEEKLY ROUNDUP OF INTERNET CURIOSITIES FROM THE BOOK WORLD

Speed Reading
Can you identify proper English under pressure?

Zapf!
For those interested in fonts but who can't pull themselves away from their Playstations meet Super Mario meets Helvetica. (Yes, a typeface video game.)

Scribbles
From cave painting to cloud platforms, from clay tablets to tablet computers, from scrolls to webs: a brief history of publishing.

Locations
"Ever longed to walk the walls of Winterfell? Dreamt of storming the battlements of the Red Keep? Then you seriously need to reassess your life ambitions. Start a family or something." From Morocco to Croatia to Northern Ireland to Iceland: A travel guide to Game of Thrones.

'nuff said
Librarians with tattoos.

Storage
"James Campbell’s new history of library architecture, with spectacular photographs by Will Pryce, takes us on a global tour of [librairies], from the clay tablet storehouses of ancient Mesopotamia and the beautiful repositories of Buddhist sutra blocks and paper prints in Korea and Japan, to the grandiose designs and multimedia extravaganzas of the 21st century."

Wormhole
When furnishing the bookworm's house...

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SHAUN SMITH is a novelist and award-winning journalist in Toronto, Canada. His young-adult novel Snakes & Ladders was published in 2009 by the Dundurn Group. His book Magical Narcissism: Selected Writings on Books, Writers, Food, and Chefs was published by Tightrope Books in June 2013. shaunsmith.ca