Kindle users will be able to borrow books from Amazon – but only in the US
Users have to subscribe to Amazon’s movie streaming service to borrow books from the Kindle library.
View ArticleThe Daily Fix: Thursday
Your essential evening round-up of the day’s biggest news, plus the bits and pieces you may have missed…
View Article500-year-old world map discovered between geometry books at German library
“Sensational” discovery of new version of map which was the first to use the name ‘America’.
View ArticleLibrary moves Lance Armstrong books to fiction section
The Manly-based library have taken a firm stance on the athlete in light of recent revelations.
View ArticleLibrary book returned by borrower… 55 years late
It was handed back to a New York library with a cheque for $100 to cover the fine.
View ArticleThe most borrowed book from Dublin libraries this month…
It was picked for the Dublin: One City Book choice to mark the centenary of the 1913 Dublin Lockout.
View ArticleOuter fence line near G8 venue breached following protest
A G8 Not Welcome march took place this evening at 6pm. At 9pm, an outer fence line was breached.
View ArticleBeastie Boys’ Sabotage video, recreated in a library
It’s everything we dreamed it would be, and more.
View Article13 of the hardest things about being a book lover
Do you read a lot? Come be with your people.
View ArticleLaw student writes angry letter to classmates for eating in class
Your noisy, smelly lunch is impeding their education.
View Article100 years of reading: Rathmines library
The library, built in 1913, has hosted the likes of Douglas Hyde, WB Yeats and Hannah Sheehy Skeffington. (And it was also an air raid shelter).
View ArticleMan arrested in connection with book theft at National Library
A large number of books and pamphlets, some of which are of historical value, were discovered at a house in Clonsilla.
View ArticleProtests at plan to turn 109-year-old library into dole office
Residents of the Dublin suburb of Balbriggan say plans to move the town’s Carnegie library will be a massive blow to the area.
View Article10 books to read before their film versions are released this year
Look like a smarty pants in front of your mates, and get ahead of the curve.
View Article11 inarguable reasons real books will always be better than e-books
We laugh in the face of your technological advances.
View ArticleNational Library evacuated after basement fire
But all is ok now and no collections were damaged.
View ArticlePoll: Do you still read books?
E-book readers are growing in popularity but are you happier when you can actually turn the pages on that page-turner?
View ArticleOne of the oldest surviving copies of all four Gospels is in Dublin
The manuscripts are believed to have been discovered in Egypt in 1929.
View ArticleCo Carlow has the sassiest librarians in the country
Look at this poster. Would YOU want a fine off this crowd?
View ArticleRead 90 letters James Joyce wrote to his family
Spoiler: Lots of the letters were about Finnegan’s Wake. And they weren’t all in English. Classic Joyce.
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