Reading, Books, and Libraries

The Future of Reading (A Play in six Acts)
Quotes pulled from various sources, including 1984 and Amazon's Kindle Terms of Service, that draws parallels between the control of information in a big-brother society and the control of reading materials under electronic licensing agreements.

Road to Tycho
Short story about a future society where use of reading material (and other information resources), is severely restricted in order to collect create personal profiles and collect payment for every reading of a work.

Can you spot the Library?
Pictures of a couple of libraries that have incorporated "books" into the exterior facade of their building.

This Into That
The phrase "book furniture" taken literally--individual shelves to entire bookcases made out of books. This site was shared with me when I was back in library school, but had lost the link until it came across a listserve this week.