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BookFinder.com

BookFinder.com connects readers to over 40,000 booksellers from around the world with an open marketplace for all their online book shopping needs.

BookFinder.com, the open marketplace for books online is produced by 13th Generation Media, of Berkeley, California. The company was founded by a couple of recent University of California grads with a taste for grassroots-driven ecommerce, and afflicted with severe cases of bibliophilia. BookFinder.com's goal is to provide fellow readers unbiased real-time information about books available online.

Rather than selling books ourselves, our team of high-tech book geeks has worked to create a truly useful free book search tool for all kinds of readers. BookFinder.com is a one-stop search site that lets users view the collections of over 40,000 sellers of new, used, rare, and out-of-print books. The forty million titles available comprise the largest book catalog available anywhere, either online or offline. [check it out]

Thanks to Library Juice! 

Thank you to Library Juice for the recognition.

But it is a library, isn't it? 

Carrollton libraries shed bookish image by Micharel A. Lindenberger

Ask Joel Lunde what he remembers about the libraries he frequented as a youth, and he doesn't have to think long: "Old, dirty, dungy and dated."

"What I remember most were the rules: No chewing gum. No food. And no beverages in the library," he said.

But finding himself with a few hours between meetings last week, the 37-year-old salesman popped into the newest branch of the Carrollton Public Library. His jaw dropped.

"I was shocked," Mr. Lunde said. "It was like I walked into a Barnes & Noble ‚ with the computers, comfortable chairs and even a coffee shop. I've never seen anything like this before." [read more]

One step forward, four steps back? 

On January 10, 2002, First Lady Laura Bush proposed a $10 million dollar initiative to recruit a new generation of librarians.

Yet, in his first year in office, President George Bush cut federal funding to libraries by $39 million dollars.