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Ugly fonts may boost reading comprehension; to double space or not to double space; the 202nd anniversary of Edgar Allan Poe's birth; origins of modern physics in Dante's Inferno; and other news.
Checking out every single book in England's Stony Stratford library; today is Thesaurus Day; app is the American Dialect Society's word of the year for 2010; Black Ocean tattoos its customers with free lifetime subscriptions; and other news.
Stieg Larsson's partner may finish writing the author's uncompleted last novel; Neil Gaiman will appear on an episode of The Simpsons; Las Vegas reckons with being the country's fifty-second most literate city; the Oxford American Summit for Ambitious Writers; and other news.
The nation's third poetry-only bookstore opens in Boulder, Colorado; new (and old) California Governor Jerry Brown proposes cutting the state's entire public library budget; an ancient letters app from the British Library; a European Commission report warns of a possible "digital Dark Age"; and other news.
The Salinger estate settles with a Swedish author; door-to-door bookselling in Brazil; an iPad book app for three-month-old babies; Borders announces the impending closure of its Tennessee distribution center; and other news.
Donald Rumsfeld's memoir will be released the same day as McSweeney's Donald; Paulo Coelho banned in Iran; a roundup of the Consumer Electronics Show; the most important contemporary fiction writer; and other news.
David Foster Wallace studies grows in the academe; Trent Reznor to score Stieg Larsson film adaptation; British Library releases literary artifacts app; the Story Prize short list is announced; and other news.
Poems on the Underground celebrates twenty-five years; the ubiquitous trend of changing nouns into verbs; Canada's Key Porter Books goes out of business; Barnes & Noble has its best holiday sales season since 1997; and other news.
Scotland seeks a new poet laureate; James Franco is set to direct film adaptations of two major literary works; benefit readings for Dean Young and Charles Bock; Borders faces certain bankruptcy or a merger with Barnes & Noble, according to one financial expert; and other news.
Waterstone's announces twenty store closures in the U.K.; Snooki's novel released today; e-books outsell their print counterparts on the USA Today best-seller list; Nancy Pearl is named Librarian of the Year; and other news.
