by SB Sarah • Wednesday, July 23, 2008 at 02:03 PM
You know how cats rub their scents on something by stroking their chin and little kitty lips on things? Usually while purring? And it looks like they’re kissing things?
Madill does for books what Deborah Adler did for prescriptions, incorporating design and clarity into something eye catching, inherently useful (from my nooby perspective anyway) and simply amazing.
According to the description page in the website, library books “are lost within themselves and… the cover design has lost it’s presence.... A library is not a bookstore, [sic] books here are stored and classified, not sold; they are sought and they are found.”
Mixing color with the 21 general subject matter classifications, Madill’s system visually updates existing systems with color and centrally-located information. The spine has the classification data; the back has just about every piece of info on a book you could want, from ISBN to publisher.
Seriously. I’m drooling, and I’m not a librarian. That art right there is hot. Librarians, whaddya think?
by SB Sarah • Thursday, August 28, 2008 at 02:23 AM
Cheyenne McCray has 13 ARCs of her new book Dark Magic and these ARCs are looking for homes. Why not with Bitchery members, right? The book comes out in November, so you can get a sneak peek at the story. All you have to do is come up with an answer to the following question: if you could create one fail-safe spell that would be yours to use forever, what would it be?
Me? The ability to wave my hands and have clutter, dirty dishes, and random crap strewn about my house instantly in its place. This particularly applies to the stuffed animals that one of my cats sees fit to “kill” and “present” to us while we’re not home, leaving us with about six or seven “dead” stuffed animals on the kitchen floor every single day.
Cheyenne’s is similar - a wave of one hand, and the house is clean. What about you? What powerful spell would you like to have in your arsenal? Never being late? Never sitting in traffic (oh, I might have to change my answer now....)? Name your spell in the next 24 hours, and Cheyenne will pick 13 winners. Bibbity, bobbity, boo!
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Truthfully, I’d love to have the ability to contact those who’ve passed away—whether one believes in that sort of thing or not (and I’m not saying I necessarily do, just that I really, really hope there’s more, just like one…
I’d want a healing spell, so I could heal myself and others. I keep thinking of the problems that would occur with spells, though, like with the healing spell you’d be mobbed with sick people if anyone found out and…
I’ve always thought a spell to find lost things would be especially useful - particularly since I lose the same things over and over!! (Though in my defense, I’ve yet to leave anything in the fridge...)
I used to read ‘Tam Lin’ every year as my university exams approached to remind myself why I’d chosen to study literature. Every time I read it, I remember that heady sensation of being an undergraduate with difficult flatmates, temperamental…