Every year I get a statement like this from the British Library / Public Lending Right programme. I'm clearly not going to get rich from library users but it's the most life-affirming indication that the books are getting into people's hands. It's so astonishingly joyous to me that 89 people borrowed a copy of Everything I Know About Life I Learned From PowerPoint.
Even after all these years I'm still fascinated with how print and digital can work together in interesting and useful ways. At the moment, in my head, I've nicknamed this strand of mucking about 'the Paper CRM'. The current experiment is; how do I
Govbins needs completing. Find out what's missing.
I've been a Mark Whitfield fan since the sock club days. He's always doing interesting, slightly off-centre things. The latest is this magnificent little book about ordering food by sketching. A very reasonable £10. Another perfect stocking filler.
This little zine is absolutely gorgeous, full of top notch advice and very reasonably priced. The perfect stocking filler for the charter in your life.
