Scrap Writing in the Digital Age

Even More Websites Get Their Own Books

Posted by: dkoupf on: December 27, 2011

I was scrolling through my bookmarks just now, wondering which scrap-writing websites might be appropriate for the next phase of my project (a phase that starts with a D and ends with a TION). I wasn’t surprised to find that some of these sites, which I haven’t looked at in a while, seem to be advertising new (to me) books. So I guess it’s time to add a few new entries to my list of books originating in websites, which I began here and continued here.

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Bender, Mike. Awkward Family Pet Photos. Three Rivers Press, 2011. From Awkward Family Pet Photos.

Boyle, Caitlin. Operation Beautiful: Transforming the Way You See Yourself One Post-It Note at a Time. Gotham, 2010. From Operation Beautiful.

Cagen, Sasha. To-Do List: From Buying Milk to Finding a Soul Mate, What Our Lists Reveal about Us. Touchstone, 2007. From To-Do List.

Cheezburger Network. There, I Fixed It: (No, You Didn’t). Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2011. From There, I Fixed It.

Dovev, Joel. Crap at My Parents’ House. Abrams Image, 2011. From Crap at My Parents’ House.

Fraioli, Sophia and Lauren Kaelin. When Parents Text: So Much Said…So Little Understood. Workman Publishing, 2011. From When Parents Text.

ICanHasCheezburger.com. Teh Itteh Bitteh Book of Kittehs. Gotham, 2010. Another book from I Can Has Cheezburger.

Keeley, Bethany. The “Book” of “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks. Chronicle Books, 2010. From The “Blog” of “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks.

Miltz, Wayne and Stephen Miltz. Crazy Things Parents Text. Sourcebooks, 2011. From Crazy Things Parents Text.

Mugumogu. I Am Maru. William Morrow, 2011. From Maru, one of my favorite Internet cats.

Yates, Jen. Wreck the Halls: Cake Wrecks Get “Festive.” Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2011. A second book from Cake Wrecks.

Hopeful: Letters of Note: The Book (maybe). From Letters of Note.

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Once again, I’m sure there are more out there, and many more on the way. It seems blooks (blog + book) are the way of the future and their numbers are beginning to overwhelm my lackadaisical attempts to catalogue them. I only notice them when browsing gift suggestions at a bookstore (which happens less frequently for me now that Borders is kaput) or when wasting time on researching scrap websites.

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