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Do you like fast cars?

650 horsepower,  0-60 time 3.6s, top speed 211 mph.

If you have to ask how much, you can't afford it.

If you have to ask why, you don't deserve it.

[Via Autoblog]

NYPL Digital Gallery

NYPL Digital Gallery:

NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 275,000 images digitized from    primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public    Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books,

printed ephemera, and more.

Rescued by Stephen King

Rescued by Stephen King:

Ron McLarty wrote an 800-page novel at age 24. When publishers showed no interest, he wrote another and another. After the third, a novel called "The Memory of Running," he finally gave up sending manuscripts to publishers.

Then last September -- after a lonely 35-year literary odyssey involving a thoughtful audiobook producer, a small-town librarian, and novelists Danielle Steel and Stephen King -- Ron McLarty got published at age 56.

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Via CNN.com - Entertainment

Turning pages without cracks or tears

The British Library has put 10 of its greatest and rarest literary treasures, from the Lindisfarne Gospels to the world's earliest dated printed book, the Diamond Sutra, on to the internet.

Tony Blair yesterday hailed the project, Turning the Pages, as a "magnificent example" of what the internet could achieve.

Turning Pages

Guardian Unlimited | Online | Turning pages without cracks or tears

Alexandria on the Internet

Amazon today launched a new feature which allows you to search EVERY WORD in the inside text of more than 33 million pages in 120,000 books, with more to be added.

Just enter a search term in their regular search box to see it in action. Pretty amazing stuff.

[Amazon]