Your timesink for the day, courtesy of Langaugehat, is Forgotten Bookmarks. A toiler in an American secondhand bookshop discovers all sorts of beautiful printed ephemera – plus the occasional leaf – pressed between the pages of their stock. Instead of displaying it all in the window, as they do in that Crouch End Oxfam, they place the stuff on a blog. With good photographs. Most intriguing so far are the fake – sorry, "novelty" – banknote in the Marquis de Sade novel, the 1914 "What do you think of the war?" postcard in a 1922 hardback, and the flyer for drugs-and-alcoholism sanatorium in a turn-of-the-century Spanish dictionary. Also on this subject: accompanying Metafilter discussion; Abebooks relays stories from its sellers; my previous self.
• Wonders in library-book location.
• Caleb Crain on a Turgenev binge.
• Stephen King versus Stephen King.
• Good questions on the Kindle.
