When Linklog migrated on to the side of the books blog front page – and into Delicious – a few months back, the plan was to have weekly roundups. This, finally, is the first one. So let's go through some staple categories:
• Fun with criticism: how F Scott Fitzgerald got the most out of his first people; John Self on the funny (or at least tragicomic) side of Thomas Bernhard; a poet's henges; Virginia Woolf, Patricia Highsmith and others considered as children's authors; a key to Victorian paperbacks in one short, link-filled paragraph.
• Fun with words (remember Zembla?): a comma in the wrong place; the origins of the fanboy; Twitter as a linguistic corpus; a truly remarkable pun on a famous line in Tacitus.
• Fun with ebooks: another publisher runs into anti-anti-Kindle anger; Kindle bestseller lists are adjusted to fit more conventional definitions of the word "sell"; publishing's "iPod moment", in a "here come the pirates" way.
• Just plain fun: books on fictional billboards; Bronte action figures; "It's a book, Jackass".
