Marilyn Monroe reading Ulysses [pic]

How amazing is Ulysses? Amazing enough to have one of the greatest female star of all time reading it! This is our first time seeing a celebrity reading a classic.

We think everyone should read a classic novel or two, even celebrities.  :)

– Postertext team

Weekly Twitter digest for 2010-08-29

• Website currently under maintenance. We'll be back in an hour or so! #
• Still under maintenance.. #
• Phew – We're now back online! #
• Congratulations @DrewCrisan for being our 200th Twitter follower! Hurrah! #
• Postertext is going to be mentioned on Wired.com! #
• Sorry We're late for this week's new releases These books are many of our staff's favorites so we are putting in extra effort to design them #
• We will be releasing Ulysses, Dracula, War of the Worlds, Time Machine next week! Sorry for the wait. We need these posters to be perfect! #
• We are now working with Collins Booksellers to bring our posters to Australia! Just got off the phone with Jacqui/Jason – what nice people! #
• Ooooh. The Dracula poster is turning out really really well! I really like this one! #
• We've added our Live Chat Support button on all of our webpages instead of just having it on our checkout page. Now it is much more visible! #
• We just completed our Ulysses poster! It's a wonderful, symbolic piece #
• Good morning all! #
• Postertext has been mentioned on Wired.com! http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2010/08/postertext-30000-words-are-worth-a-picture/ #
• Postertext has been mentioned on Wired.com! Read it here http://bit.ly/cgguGq #

Whoa! Building made from thousands of books

This is amazing! An entire structure made from books.

We’ve covered Matej Kren’s amazing feats of book-stacking before, and now his largest book installation to date is on display in Italy at the Museum of Modern Art in Bologna (MAMbo). The piece, entitled “Scanner,” is a gigantic tunnel of books that is meant to inspire reflection, impose greatness, and confuse perspective.

Now that is one impressive book collection.

Read more here: Mind-Blowing Building Built From Thousands of Books | Inhabitat – Green Design Will Save the World

The War of the Worlds book cover collection

Yesterday, we wrote about our discovery of Bookcoverarchive.com. Today, we found a similar idea. Instead of a book cover gallery for all kinds of books, The War of the Worlds Book Cover Collection is dedicated to providing all past and present book covers from multiple countries for the popular book by H.G. Wells.

This cover was our favorite:

Now that is one dedicated sci-fi fan.

– Postertext team

Amazing archive of book covers

This is one of our favorite discoveries so far!

Bookcoverarchive.com is exactly what it sounds. We feel silly even having to explain it, but here it is anyways: It is an online gallery that collects book covers. That’s all. Simple idea but extremely cool.

For those who judge a book by its cover, this is just the thing for you! Now, you can do it at the comfort of your own home.

Do you have a cool literary discovery? Let us know below in the comments section!

– Postertext team