fernandofrench:

The votes are in! The novel we will be reading and discussing for the first-ever One Book, One Tumblr is…

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer.

It won by a landslide, garnering almost half of the total votes. Here are the next steps:

1. Pick up a copy of the novel. It should be available at your local bookstore or online (Powell’s has new copies for 30 percent off). And for those with an aversion to paper, it’s also available as an e-book. 
2. Read, read, read — even if you’ve already read it.
3. Post your ruminations, questions, and critiques, and tag them with #onebookonetumblr.
4. Heart, reblog, and follow the discussion here.

Before the end of today, I will message five readers, at random, who reblogged the previous post so they can get a free copy of the novel.

And if I’m not forgetting anything else, let the reading begin.

This is one of my favourite books and I would highly recommend it to anyone who hasn’t read it before. Also I think #onebookonetumblr is a great idea.

(via thirddeadlysin)

Back when we launched two of Tumblr’s most unique features, reblogging and the Tumblr Bookmarklet, we devised automatic “via” links in post captions as a simple solution for attribution. Three years later, this solution has gotten us pretty far. But it’s easy to spot some real shortcomings:

• It’s hard.

^^ that’s what she said.

Well, I guess that means we’ll probably have some down time this weekend, but this is awesome.