— Robert Darnton has a thought-provoking essay on Google Book Search in the most recent New York Review of Books, in which he compares the modern information economy to that of the Enlightenment.

— The Guardian’s excellent series on the 1000 novels you must read is, indeed, available online.  Check it out!

— Jeremy points out a massive Ebay autograph forgery scam as well as Obama’s first executive orders related to Presidential records policies.

— The Cynic Sang points out that Google Maps has teamed up with the Prado to display extremly high-resolution photos of fourteen paintings.  I checked this out and it is really cool; you can get close enough to see individual brushstrokes and tiny cracks.

— William found something wonderful in the back of a book.

— From the Book Cover Archive, Great War Dust Jackets.

— Via Morbid Anatomy, images from a French hypnotism manual.

— Also from the Guardian, Virginia Woolf on reading.