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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Mark Hooper

Catch of the day: Books in blog form

Everyone's a blogger these days. There's something Warholian about it, which only makes b>I Blogged Andy Warhol the more sublime. What makes this blog work is the simplicity of the idea - b>Andy Warhol's Diaries archived online.

It's an idea so simple you wonder why no one's thought of it before. But of course, they have. Several people in fact. There's b>Samuel Pepys' real-time diaries, or the DIY jackanory style of the b>Charles Dickens podcasts, as read by the typically Dickensian Nathaniel Tapley.

And that's without heading into the murky waters of the literary MySpace tribute pages - one of the best of which is that for b>Oscar Wilde (who lists b>Jane Austen, b>Rudyard Kipling and b>Mark Twain among his friends).

And if that's not enough for you, there's always b>Dante's Virtual Tour Of Hell to keep you occupied ...

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