Replace the Kindle with (gasp!) a Book on Its Side?

The UK's Guardian newspaper is reporting the "newest" thing in books, an innovation that has already taken, according to the article, Holland and Spain by storm.

The new "flipback" book will remind those of us who are old enough to have been there and done that of the kid's novelty flipbook, with which the reader got to see a mini-movie by flipping the pages quickly and watching the image change.

The "flipback," however, is meant to be held in the palm of one hand where it stays open and supposedly is easy to flip from page to page.  It's easily apparent that this book of wafer-thin pages is no Kindle, or other eBook.  It is, however, the pet rock of the book set.

It's one claim to fame so far?  From the headline on the article, it is getting the Guardian reporter the attention he craves.

How Can Librarians and Cyberlibrarians Save Us All?

Author Marilyn Johnson in her new book This Book Is Overdue: How Librarians and Cyberlibrarians Can Save Us All has decided to tell us.  After reading The New York Times review of the book this morning, I decided this was a must buy.  And Amazon provided a Publishers Weekly starred review as well.  (Having been a PW reviewer for about 15 years and knowing how much extra trouble reviewers go through to make something a starred review, I sat up and took more notice.)

Being the very, very happy owner of a Kindle, I immediately bought a copy (delivered in under a mouse's breath) and will read it after I finish the Lynn Kurland and Betty Neels novels that are in the queue before it.