While reading an e-book copy of
War and Peace on his Nook, North Carolina blogger Philip
noticed a minor glitch in the text: "It was as if a light had been Nookd in a carved and painted lantern." He ignored it and moved on, but then encountered a similar error shortly thereafter. As it turned out, the word "kindle" had been systematically replaced by "Nook" throughout the whole book.
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posted by BlackLeotardFront
on Jun 1, 2012 -
67 comments
The Jules Verne Collecting Resource. If you're a Verne fan or a book collector at all, this site is an absolute treasure. There are pictures of almost every single edition of
his works,
major and
minor, as well as everything even slightly Verne-related, including:
movie posters,
matchbooks,
autographs,
playing cards,
cards for stereoscopes,
postcards he sent,
board games, Jules Hetzel's excellent
covers and
posters for his work (
more here, and
this one is amazing),
the man himself, and god knows what else - pretty much everything.
If it's not here, it's
somewhere else, like the
extraordinary maps which adorned some editions, or the
virtual library with links to all of his works, the
many, many incredible illustrations therein, and even one
scanned manuscript (in French, obviously). Hope this makes somebody's day as much as it made mine.
posted by BlackLeotardFront
on Feb 25, 2007 -
16 comments
