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The 20 Most Beautiful Bookstores in the World (via Flavorwire)

By the Branta Webcrawler • Feb 2nd, 2012 • Category: Branta Recommends, From the Interweb, Recommended Artistic Consumption, Travel

Why publishers should give away ebooks

By the Branta Webcrawler • Jan 30th, 2012 • Category: Brave New World, Editor's Picks, Recommended Artistic Consumption, eBook Shelf

The only technology you need to read a print book is the eyes you were born with, and print continues, for the moment, to be the leading format for books. If you start giving away downloads with print copies, you shake things up in a pretty big way.
Nicholas Carr - Rough Type

“For Rohinton Mistry I would make the most amazing new drink I have just discovered: an ice-cold salty lassi with toasted cumin, cilantro, and hot chile and whole milk yoghurt; served on crushed ice. Unbelievably refreshing!”
Kathy Peterson/CBC Books

Literary Games for Bored Book Nerds

By the Branta Webcrawler • Jul 8th, 2011 • Category: Editor's Picks, From the Interweb, Ha Ha, Recommended Artistic Consumption

[Dwight Garner of NY Times writes] “Many people flee from games they fear will be public I.Q. tests or will expose gaps in their literary knowledge.” So true. Which is why we at Flavorpill would like to introduce a few games into your summer repertoire, so you have something to do if you’re bored at your beach house (or more likely, during the long train ride to a beach).
Kathleen Massara/Flavorwire

Typewriter Pillow!

By the Branta Webcrawler • Jun 20th, 2011 • Category: Editor's Picks, From the Interweb, Ha Ha, Recommended Artistic Consumption

Girls, pick your bedtime reading with care

By the Branta Webcrawler • Jun 5th, 2011 • Category: Advice, Editor's Picks, Essays, Lists, Reading Horror(s), Recommended Artistic Consumption

Although I hadn’t yet learned about saying no to the patriarchy, I was too shy and awkward to be a princess, and I ditched the plan of becoming one altogether when I read LM Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables. I read the Anne books so many times that I felt as at home in turn-of-the-century Prince Edward Island as in 1980s suburban north London.
Samantha Ellis/The Guardian/Observer