Gooooooood morning, Apocalypsia!
- Looking to order some books but don’t want to use non-tax-paying, worker-exploiting Amazon? Bookshop.org shares with small stores and is doing some pandemic extras;
- On working from home with kids: survive over thrive;
- Margaret Atwood dishes on our new future;
- Authors with books similar to the current pandemic, like Chuck Wendig;
- Time to tackle your to-be-read pile;
- Like most other jurisdictions in countries not headed by yellow haired halfwits, TPL is closed — but here is a primer on how to still check out books;
- Very real effects of pandemic: B&N warning of layoffs;
- FOLD, the literary diversity extravaganza in the Toronto area, is going fully online;
- Britain’s indies are doing everything to help;
- Here’s a novel approach: the whole bookstore to yourself for an hour;
- Publishers are trying to entice with bunker discounts (go buy some books);
- CBC is going all corona, all the time, even locally;
- Scribd has opened their library for free;
- So has LibraryThing;
- Can’t find anything on Scribd or LT, you picky, picky snoot? The Paris review just launched a new search by author index;
- Here’s what the Italian book lovers are doing to survive;
- A short story competition in Ireland for kids cooped up at home;
- Imagine all the good that can come of this situation. Example:
