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Ernest Cline speaks at the Warner Bros. “Ready Player One” panel on day three of 2017 Comic-Con International in San Diego. Richard Shotwell, Invision via The Associated Press Roberto Ontiveros The Dallas Morning News Ernest Cline’s 2011 debut novel, “Ready Player One,” a kind of Willy Wonka-meets-“Tron” adventure story, validated the digital diversions of gamers …

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – For the third time in little more than a month, someone has either vandalized or broken into a popular Philadelphia coffee shop in Germantown. Police responded to Uncle Bobbie’s Coffee & Books on the 5400 block of Germantown Avenue, around 11 p.m. Thursday for a report of a break-in. When police arrived, …

Time to stock up on books. After almost six months of crisis mode (or what I think of as zombie apocalypse mode), Westbank and Laura’s libraries will be closed the week of Labor Day, Sept. 6-13. When we resume service on Sept. 14, the reserve pickup hours will change. The hours are currently 1-4 p.m., …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday his former national security adviser John Bolton will have broken the law and face criminal liability if a book he has written about his time in the White House is published. Trump told reporters that Bolton knows he has classified information in his book, and …

Penguin Randomhouse From INGREDIENTS by George Zaidan, published by Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC. Copyright © 2020 by George Zaidan Eating clay (or other minerals) to detoxify potentially dangerous food is arguably the very first thing we did as a species that could be considered “processing”: …

The world is going through a major crisis, and people are encouraged to stay within the bounds of their home to stay safe from Covid-19 pandemic. Books are considered a man’s best friend. So, in such distressing times, it is a good idea to indulge in some of the literary masterpieces to learn about some …

As the virus devastates tax revenues, states must follow balanced-budget laws. In February, Ohio was running a $200 million budget surplus. Then the coronavirus pandemic struck, and two months later — as tax revenue plummeted and public health expenses skyrocketed — the state was facing a $777 million hole. Gov. Mike DeWine, a Republican, ordered …

One day in the autumn of 2015, a small but significant change was implemented at the Instagram offices in Menlo Park, California. Employees arrived at work to discover the rubbish bins under each desk had disappeared. The bins had allowed people to work efficiently – no one had to stand up to throw away a …

“There were no design conventions for the earliest home computers, no rules for how they’d look,” says Alex Wiltshire, author of Home Computers, a new book that explores the rapidly changing face of the household machine between its birth in the 1970s and the 1990s. A world away from the devices used today, the computers …

Waterstones is facing a backlash after members of staff said they had not been provided protective equipment to serve customers as hundreds of its stores remained open despite the coronavirus outbreak. Employees of the bookselling chain said they had not been provided hand sanitiser and had been discouraged from wearing face masks or gloves as …