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Are E-Readers Greener than Books?
The New York Times

A study recently released by the San Francisco-based Cleantech group sought to determine the environmental impact of replacing your books with the Amazon Kindle. See their findings after the jump .....

Simple Green: Share Your Books

Finished a book this weekend and placed it on the growing stack of books on our bedside table. The book would've normally gone to the bookshelf, but it's overflowing. We've got a book problem: we eith...

Art School Girl
Vintage Book Paper Goods

We recently spotted Art School Girl’s cute Heart Keys at our favorite local flower shop, Asrai Garden. Intrigued by the clever keys laser cut from vintage book covers, we checked out Art School Girl...

Mark Bittman's Advice on Meat-Eating
Blogging NPR

Confession time: Mark Bittman, author and food writer for the NY Times, is our new go-to guy. For Christmas, we received How to Cook Everything, and have literally referenced it every single day since...

Look! More Decorating with Books

Ever since we came across this idea for decorating with books, we've been hunting and scheming for a good way to display a few covers from some of our vintage paperbacks -- all of which were acquired ...

Green Tip: Throw a Book Swap Party

A good friend of ours recently returned to Texas after a lengthy stay on our couch. Before she left, she raided our bookshelf and grabbed five titles she'd been wanting to read. We have a lot of bo...

Simple Green: Use the Library

Let's start with disclosing that we're avid readers. Like super-avid-have-fights-with-the-bf- over-the-light-being-on-oh-my-gosh-gotta-check-out-Gregory's-post on-reading-lights kind of avid. We lik...

Green Decorating: With Books

When it comes to decorating, we think supporting artists is crucial. However, we're also partial to decorating with found objects, produce and other organic materials....