The Hindu Business Line : A good read gets better

If, like me, you love books, then you will surely have enjoyed a nice warm afternoon with your favourite book (one of those that you dip into every now and again) under the shade of an old tree, or these days, on a hammock in your apology of a balcony. A cup of coffee along with an affectionate tousling of hair has also helped on many days.

Some people, of course, prefer to stay indoors, sometimes inside a cool air-conditioned room. These would be the ones who will curl up in a chair or sofa however uncomfortable it is, and these are the ones that also typically get an earful from their loved ones for being too lazy.

Whichever type you are, you have sometimes been irritated by the fact that you are reading about some place that you know nothing of. You have heard about it, but you don't know where it is; or you know where it is, but you don't know how far away.

So, here it is, from Google Book Search (http://booksearch.blogspot.com/2007/01/books-mapped.html), the ability to look up all the places in a book on a map. And you can click on each pin on the map to find out the references to that place in the book. You can find examples such as `Around the World in Eighty Days' by Jules Verne at the blogpost.

While you are at it, you might want to find some nice furniture that will be comfortable as well as convenient for your book habit, and the Bibliochaise might just fit the bill (http://www.nobodyandco.it/; look for it under the `products' tab on the right of the page).

N. Nagaraj

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