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Souvenir Sunday: miniature books and travel-sized items

11/14/10
Each Sunday here at StuckatTheAirport.com is Souvenir Sunday: a day to take a look at some of the fun, inexpensive souvenirs you can find at airports. This week: fun, inexpensive and tiny things to bring to the airport and on your trip. A friend heading to India (lucky duck!) was seeking suggestions for three weeks-worth →

Schiphol getting world’s first airport library

05/22/10
(Strahov Monastery library, Prague. Photos courtesy Curious Expeditions , via Flickr) Over the years I’ve heard from one or two US airports that were toying with the idea of letting their local library have a cart somewhere in the terminal where travelers could check out and return library books. But so far, it seems nothing →

Stuck at the airport? Read. For free.

04/14/09
A great tip for staying sane while traveling is to have a book – a long, interesting, forget-about-time book – stashed in your carry-on. The next best thing: a magazine on a topic you love – science, fashion, golf, celebrity gossip, or maybe even fish. If you buy a pile of magazines at the airport →

Summer reading for air travelers

05/27/08
In today’s Wall Street Journal there’s a review of a novel that will probably appeal to anyone who’s ever found themselves stuck at the airport. And these days, that’s a pretty big audience. Here’s a link to the review about Dear American Airlines by Jonathan Miles. The book takes the form of a letter written →

Read any good books on an airplane lately?

05/12/08
The folks at Coudal Partners are a curious, creative and crafty crew. They not only curate the marvelous MOOM– the Museum of On-Line Museums – they organize lots of other intriguing projects. Such as? The Field-Tested Books project, which is specially-designed for travelers. Recognizing that “reading a certain book in a certain place uniquely affects →