Recreate Your Fave Book Cover Challenge
Inspired by the Getty Museum’s art challenge, the New York Public Library is helping people have some fun while isolating at home with their own challenge: recreate your favorite book covers! Share your new book covers on social media using the hashtag #BookCoverDouble–and don’t worry if you don’t want to show your face. As the recreators of Jurassic Park and Running With Scissors have shown, there’s plenty of faceless options.
Chelsea Handler Gives Book Recs Her Way
Chelsea Handler has always been a lover of books, starting with childhood trips to the library with her mom, and her passion has only continued as an adult as she seeks to always learn new things. The author and comedian has taken to Instagram to recommend books using the hashtags #GetLitWithChelsea #NakedLit. The second hashtag is because Handler is naked holding her recommendations over her private parts. Check out her book recommendation photos and video book reviews–is it still NSFW if we’re working alone on our sofa in PJs?
App News
The Library of Congress announced the LOC Collections app, which puts the national library’s digital collections on your iPhone or iPad–Android users’ version is forthcoming. Along with having the digital collection at your fingertips wherever you are, the app also allows you to curate your own personal galleries and share. Anyone else remember when you had to physically go to a library, and only had access to whatever they had in the building?