Houston high school library throws out books, makes way for coffee and couches. http://tumblr.com/xr4yw2fbc # Rosemary Williams documents everything she owns, in "Belongings." http://tumblr.com/xr4yw2dkd # "Tongue" bookmark: http://tumblr.com/xr4yvjvdq # Claim: "Amazon's amateur book-reviewing becomes vicious free-for-all." http://tumblr.com/xr4yv6do2 # A book … Continue reading →

BoingBoing finds "delightful" science fiction story lurking in a review of $6800 speaker cable http://t.co/6oF85GN # Intel commissions futuristic stories for internal planning; "unique literary project" – Boing Boing http://t.co/M8lllTY # Photographer Hong Hao's "My Things" project, arranging 20 years … Continue reading →

'The Novelist's Lexicon': 77 writers each choose 1 word that "creates a window their work." http://lat.ms/b0LWfe # Art project goal: "Object That Remains A Dream" (Pics) – @PSFK http://t.co/V0M1bkL # DailyLit, a service that let’s you read books by email … Continue reading →

"Collector extraordinaire Lisa Congdon" on collection-a-day project, which is great. http://etsy.me/8YjRGr # Maud Newton's desk! http://t.co/238nk15 # A renaissance rooted in technology: the literary magazine returns http://t.co/2Aqomtc via @guardian # Via @nprnews: Doodle Your Way Out Of Writer's Block | … Continue reading →

More new titles added to our Book Shop: http://significantobjects.com/bookstore/ # Unusual vintage laboratory photos – Boing Boing http://t.co/oZdgetO [Is Josh's latest VISTA contraption depicted here? Perhaps, perhaps.] # Horribly disfigured porcelain dolls – Boing Boing http://t.co/hqh9Zc9 # Book cover postcards: … Continue reading →

RT @YoungAmerican S.O. contributor Todd Levin on Jordan, Jesse, Go http://bit.ly/aSEVSe # Via @nprnews: Sci-Fi’s Cory Doctorow Separates Self-Publishing Fact From Fiction | http://t.co/zy84Q3t # Stuff found in used books, collected and blogged: http://www.forgottenbookmarks.com/ # 50 most hated characters in … Continue reading →

Lamps that look like books: http://tumblr.com/xr4mlh5pg # Only a few hours left to back Hypothetical Development project on Kickstarter… http://kck.st/dqyDpC # T-shirts of vintage book covers – Boing Boing http://t.co/JdjqrVO via @boingboing # Chris Wright's paintings of commonplace objects that … Continue reading →

Case Studies in Successful Self-Publishing: "To Slow Down the Time" – The Awl http://t.co/DCKSx6I # Horse Bust + Beth Lisick story, our last Root Division-benefit auction. Heating up, ends today. http://bit.ly/blKnf5 # Marriage, Memories, and 'The Morning News': Rosecrans Baldwin … Continue reading →

Let me say it again with the right hashtag: Our first ever live event TONIGHT, part of @litquake. Details: http://bit.ly/dtAM6f #LitCrawl # Our first ever live event TONIGHT, part of @litquake. Details: http://bit.ly/dtAM6f #litquake # "4" Angel + Story by … Continue reading →

NYC folks: Go to the release event for @jimhanas collection “Why They Cried.” http://bit.ly/a60jvy Sounds fun! # Very large book cover archive: http://bookcoverarchive.com/ # New Republic looking for “literary intern.” http://bit.ly/cDFWzT # Books added to our “store” all the time. … Continue reading →

“Bookshelf” wallpaper. http://tumblr.com/xr4jpdjmr # Fun interview by Paola Antonelli w/ S.O. co-founder Rob Walker includes nice mention our project, plus a bunny picture. http://bit.ly/a9Tlbl # iPad app based on typewriter. http://bit.ly/dDi2ct # “The strange afterlife of authors’ book collections,” Boston … Continue reading →

DON’T FORGET: On October 9th, from 6-7 p.m., as part of Litquake’s Litcrawl, SIGNIFICANT OBJECTS will present its first live event: An Evening of Remarkable Stories about Unremarkable Things featuring Rob Baedeker, Chris Colin, Miranda Mellis, Beth Lisick, and Katie … Continue reading →

Toronto Star on dating/social sites that match by taste in books and the like. http://bit.ly/9ADO4a # Grumbler assesses NYT article claiming "social stigma" attached to reading books in public. http://bit.ly/cUZiir # Climb Inside Bookshelf Tower http://tumblr.com/xr4gn8y9n # Mushrooms + 40,000 … Continue reading →

How to turn a book into a book rack. http://tumblr.com/xr4gfwuwr # "Odd website where people photograph themselves feeding food to inanimate objects." http://bit.ly/9qlWiq # Atlantic on book about pre-Kindle "reading revolution," The Book In The Renaissance. http://bit.ly/bmTHov # Salvation Army … Continue reading →

Objects with “no physical use-value” but that serve “cognitive” needs. http://tumblr.com/xr4fv1wi7 # How to “upcycle” a book into a planter. http://tumblr.com/xr4fuwiug # Smithsonian videos of old “animated” books, via Boingboing. http://tumblr.com/xr4fug4lg # The 15 Most Overrated Contemporary American Writers by … Continue reading →

Book Sculpture by Federico Uribe http://tumblr.com/xr4fa2wvp # “Copyright free books summarized w/ Word 2008’s AutoSummarize 10-sentence function.”: http://tumblr.com/xr4f9ujho # 1940′s Seaman’s Savings Bank. So cool. I’d love to read a story about it! http://tumblr.com/xr4f9ug70 # S.O. contributor Michael Atkinson 8/13 … Continue reading →

Mulling “cover” design for ebooks. http://tumblr.com/xr4epbifu # “Art” of filling a bookshelf entails “a lamp, a sailboat and a few small pictures.” http://tumblr.com/xr4ekuh2z # Latest on the Salinger bio co-written by S.O. contributor David Shields: http://bit.ly/b3A2rg # Concord Free Press’s … Continue reading →

Rachel Axler (@rachelaxler)’s play SMUDGE, which enjoyed its off-Broadway premiere this past January, was  just published by Samuel French. http://bit.ly/bqwJlS # NPR story on unpublished Kafka (http://n.pr/de0hbT) misses Monkey Puppet angle. Dara Horn story: http://bit.ly/afuxj2 # Not speaking Italian, must … Continue reading →