There have been some...

hotels I've mentioned before with book themes.

First was the Library Hotel, where each room has a unique dewey decimal designation.

Another was the Algonquin Hotel, where they offer a Kindle loaded with the visitors favorite ebooks.

Now there is Inn BoonBoro, author Nora Roberts hotel, where each room relate to a literary couple.

All I can say is that one of the most relaxing visits I've experienced was in a hotel that happened to be in a foreign country [not many bookshops offering English titles], actually had a library where people left their books for future visitors. Yup, I read one while sitting in a hammock on the beach and left a one behind.

Books/eBooks do a vacation good.

There have been some...

interesting articles about books, ebooks, authors - basically, all things tome-related, this past week. Here they are as noted in my twitter account:

An author's view on bailout request from WSJ and some good suggestions of how to do it better - http://tiny.cc/3gopD

An interesting find in the historical sex/BDSM lifestyle - quite a surprise: http://tiny.cc/HABvv

Oh man, when they are needed most, things are not looking so good for libraries - http://usat.me/?34027456.

Dear Author has a great article up on what should be in an eBook-some of it is really obvious, but isn't done-why? http://tiny.cc/excfE

The perfect set of bookshelves as designed by Stijn Disscheroux - http://tiny.cc/5XrhI

A fabulous example of purple prose romance - Steve Martin and Stephen Colbert reading Danielle Steel - http://tiny.cc/LmTCi