Reading a Book is Reading a Book — Peter Ginna has another thoughtful post on about the Random House e-book rights controversy (which better articulates some of what I was trying to get at here).
A Decade of Fear — David Ulin, book editor of The LA Times, looks back at the last 10 years (and forward to the next).
Book Lovers Never Go To Bed Alone — a Tumblr collection of bookshelves (via index//mb)
Hello, I’m Robot! — A somewhat surreal — but definitely awesome — Soviet kids’ book at A Journey Round My Skull…
And…
Russian Artists and The Children’s Book 1890-1992 — 512 pages, full color with over 1100 images. Written and privately published by Albert Lemmens and Serge Stommels in The Netherlands. Yours for only $195 plus shipping (seen at The Daily Heller).
And…
Three Designers from Moscow — MyFonts interviews Russian type designers Vera Evstafieva, Alexandra Korolkova and Elena Novoselova.
And… Thinking of MyFonts…
…They’ve just released the rather lovely exljbris slab serif Museo Slab. Regular Museo Slab and Museo Slab Italic are free downloads.
The Book Design Review‘s Favourite Covers of 2009 — All good choices. Go vote. Now.
And… Have I mentioned just how incredible Peter Mendelsund’s new Foucault covers are…? I did? OK. Just want to make sure…
Grief, wish the Russian artists and children’s book were more accessible. The descrip sounds fabulous. Great collection of type, images and links this post.