Buying Books by the Foot: New Yorker

"Since the program’s inception, in 1986, the Strand has built scores of imaginary reading rooms, from the prison library in “Oz” to the Barnes & Noble clone in “You’ve Got Mail.” Clients also include window dressers, commercial architects (the Strand furnished each floor in the Library Hotel with a different Dewey decimal category), and people with more shelf space than leisure time. Kelsey Grammer requested all hardback fiction in two of his homes."

Decorating with books: Design Observer
Somewhat related to the above: The Design Observer on books and the shifting of their usage as decorative objects.

'“There was a time, not so very long ago,” wrote Betty Pepis, author of interior decoration books, in the introduction to 65 Ways to Decorate [published 1956], “when books had little to do with the decorating of a home. Banished from the front parlor or the formal living room, they were confined to a den or a library reserved for the purpose... But homes have changed a great deal in the past two decades. Space is tighter.'

Typographic Art: bantjes.com
Marian Bantjes makes beautiful covers, posters and other visual artifacts exhibiting a strong typographical influence.

Five-thousand metal buck$: The New Yorker
On the cult of Leica (oh how I want an M8, tradition and mechanics be damned):

"If you can conquer the slight queasiness that comes from walking about with seven thousand dollars’ worth of machinery hanging around your neck, an afternoon with the M8 is a dangerously pleasant groove to get into."