Have you ever wondered where books come from?

uispeccoll:

zwischendenstuehlen:

Well then, let me show you, because that’s what I do for a living.

Right now, it’s this time of the year, and the little ones have just freshly hatched:

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You’ll notice they’re still blind and naked when they hatch. So I make them little coats to keep them warm during their first winter:

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See how they happily line up to put them on:

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See? Better. Now they’re ready to go and explore the world.

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And if they make it through the winter and we take good care of them, they will grow up to be strong and wise like their older fellows:

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So, in case you were ever wondering, now you know.

This is adorable.


Tags:

#books #adorable

ladysmaragdina:

encontrate:

thisispureinsanity:

candlejack:

WHAT IS THIS

WHAT IS THIS

WHAT

IS THIS A LIBRARY IN A THEATRE

ALL OF MY DREAMS HAVE JUST COME TRUE

oh. oh my god.

this is genuinely the most beautiful thing i have ever seen

This is a book store called El Ateneo in Buenos Aires, Argentina! You can have coffee while sitting on the stage. One of my favorite places in my city.

I adore this place.


Tags:

#books #pretty things #places I should go

This is what the internet is for…

justice-turtle:

neil-gaiman:

Do not hesitate. Go to this link.

Then gaze at the book titles, and marvel.

(I don’t actually think I need to read any of them. It just makes me happy knowing they exist.)

You know, I bet I could identify the publication decade of… a lot of these books, just from their cover designs. Maybe not all, but most. (My parents are both bibliophiles; I’m a spreadsheet-o-phile. Guess who got to do the cataloguing? *g*)

Am I the only one who thinks that, say, “Building a Fire Truck” (looks like a children’s book) and “An Intellectual History of Cannibalism” (doesn’t) aren’t that odd? I want to read those.

“How to Teach Physics to Your Dog” is not literal; it’s a physics-for-dummies-type thing with a framing of him conversing with his dog (who can talk because it’s only a framing device). I read the author’s blog on occasion, so I’ve heard of it before.

I was going to say “How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found” was a novel and also not literal, but after looking it up it seems to be a different book by the same name that is literal. Now I kind of want to read that too. (Not to actually do it, just to see what he’s got to say.)


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#reply via reblog #books