IDEA Books, London

The Soho-based used books purveyor uses the power of social media to showcase a tightly edited collection of creative tomes

by Caroline Kinneberg What bookseller has the most popular account on Instagram? Random House, you might guess? It has almost 10k followers, compared to Barnes and Noble’s 18k. Maybe more visual brands, like Taschen (20k) or Assouline (23k)? But the most popular book specialist on Instagram could very well be IDEA Books, with (at the time of publication) 98,400 followers and growing every day. This …

Openspaces: Cornwall’s Shores in Photos

A year's worth of surf-focused iPhone shots assembled into a clean and simple hardcover

Recent years have seen England’s surf scene earn more and more credit on an international level. With the growing popularity of cold water surfing (and the ability to quickly document and share one’s sessions via social media) England’s frigid yet picturesque wave-riding culture has fortunately found its way into our feeds. “Openspaces” is a photography book from the mind of Karl Mackie, founder of Cornwall-based …

If Hemingway Wrote JavaScript

In Twitter engineer Angus Croll’s new book “If Hemingway Wrote JavaScript,” he imagines how well-known literary figures from James Joyce to J.D. Salinger to Tupac would write JavaScript code. It’s a fun, creative exercise that reminds programmers of the similarities between Javascript and natural language—and pushes them to be expressive and elegant in their own way.