bookofjoe

'If you want to know how I know about every book here, I can tell you! Because I never read any of them.'

Thus does a librarian in Robert Musil's unfinished three-volume modernist novel (1930-1943) "The Man Without Qualities" explain how he easily keeps up with the library's collection.

"Reading, he says, would make him lose perspective on the collection as a whole; to prize a few books by reading them would only make him neglect the others," wrote Rosie Blau in her "Book Doctor" column in the Financial Times.

I am reminded of Truman Capote's remark that you don't have to read books — it's enough to simply have them.

Read volume 1 here.

Free, the way we like it.

Wait a sec — what's that song I'm hearing?

OHIO reads the same sideways

[via Futility Closet]

Unbreak My Heart Paper Clips

I love these.

From the website:

These heart-shaped paper clips are heartbroken when you're not using them, but they'll turn into a complete heart once they're finally clipped onto some paper.

Box of 15: $8.