Image by Hi Pandian via FlickrI meant to post this earlier.Pratham Books are available at the Books For Development Stall [Stall no 100] at the Bangalore Book Fair.The book festival is open to the public from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. and the entry fee is Rs. 20. It ends on November 23.Related articles by ZemantaFrankfurt Book Fair Survey: 70 Percent 'Ready' For Digital Books But 60 Percent Avoid E-Books

Financial crisis? Stick the idiot's lantern on The University of Maryland has concluded that "unhappy people watch more TV", while those who reckon they're "very happy" tend to pass the time reading or socializing.…

Boing Boing has a pointer to this wonderful Flickr set with scans of old Scholastic book covers.

Image by jessamyn via FlickrIn an article in the LA Times, Beau Friedlander opines that "... The instant knowledge provided by the Web is invaluable, as is the deeper communion provided by books.""The Internet is a volume in our library," Ackerman says, "a colorful, miscellaneous, and serendipitous one -- but not a replacement for books, and certainly not an alternative to spending time in the world and just paying attention to things." Moulitsas believes it's ...

Image via WikipediaThe Google juggernaut rolls on. It's latest trick is being able to read and understand scanned PDF documents. While Google could always read and index PDF documents created with a text layer, this new trick included OCR to be able to read, parse and index scanned text in a PDF too. Impressive.Via Ars Technica:As announced on the Official Google Blog, the company is now performing optical character recognition (OCR) on documents that it ...

Recently stumbled upon a website called Story Revolution and this is what they do:At Story Revolution we select and source children’s books from second-hand bookstores around India. We choose books that are exceptionally warm and spirited, cherished by children all over the world, and yet often difficult to find in India. Some of these books are only available as imports in second-hand stores, where cartons of books have to be sifted through to find a ...

It has been a while since we've uploaded a book for you to read so here's one called Forever Friends. The original story in Hindi called Dosti Ka Safar was written by Feisal Alkazi. Feisal also worked on this English translation and the illustrations are by Neeta Gangopadhya. This book is © Rajiv Gandhi Foundation – Pratham Books, 2008.Himu and Morinda stood next to each other in the forest and were the best of friends. ...

Via the wonderful booktwo.org blog comes this map where the size of each territory shows the number of new book titles published each year*.“Each new book published is counted only once on this map, regardless of how many copies it sells… A book is defined as having at least 50 pages; a pamphlet has 5 to 49 pages. Publications with fewer than 5 pages are not shown on this map. Worldwide, about a million new ...