Spellcheck doesn’t work too well with names

Yes, yes, it’s one thing to go after big professional publishers, but it’s cheap to go after some little guy trying to exploit the public domain and the creative commons for their imperfections.

What can I say, I’m cheap.

And thus I’ll point out that Mr. Schultz-with-a-T has popped up once again in the title of a book, this time Fifteen From Minnesota Who Changed the World: Bob Dylan, Garrison Keillor, Charles Schultz, Winona Ryder and More, a print-on-demand book made up of Wikipedia articles. These guys may want to look things up when they write their titles, but I don’t count on them to have the proper reference. After all, any publisher that claims “books such as this represent a new and exciting lexicon in the sharing of human knowledge” apparently doesn’t even have the lexicon which would let them know what “lexicon” means…

New releases
Review: Snoopy (Classic Cartoon Character Bios)

The Abdo Kids : Classic Cartoon Character Bios books are blatant stuff-to-fill-school-libraries material. Sturdy hardcovers, lots of pictures, 24 pages, little text – about 250 words. The Snoopy volume uses Snoopy images from just about anywhere: strips (appropriately licensed), animation, photos, The Peanuts Movie publicity materials. And the simple facts it …

Classic finds
A needle-ssly fine present

Being a) an adult and b) not a Christmasian, it makes sense that I’m not given much in the way of Christmas presents. This year’s haul was just two items, both given by Dr. Mrs. The AAUGH Blogger: a Terry’s Chocolate Orange (yum!), and this Peanuts embroidery book from Japan. …

New releases
Double Love

Simon Spotlight has dropped two books for the Valentine’s Day Shopping Season, and they’re pretty similar. Love is Everywhere, Snoopy! is a board book that is supposed to be Charlie Brown explaining love to Snoopy (who is said to have asked, which raises the usual how-does-Snoopy-communicate-to-Charlie-Brown question.) Charlie Brown answers …