Awesome Books

Let’s salute Threadless for the last 10 years of fun sidewalk brightening, thanks to their clever crowd-sourced tees. If you’re late to the party, jump in: it’s all chronicled in this truly entertaining book.

Looking for something besides today’s fou-fou martinis to pipe down your manly gullet? This guide offers recipes for 60+ old-school cocktails, plus pics and quotes from the old men who drink them.

Designed as a digital replacement for textbooks and notepads, the Kno tablet will feature two large touchscreens, accept pen input, and a full-featured web browser supporting HTML5 and Flash.

Knock Knock’s self-diagnosis manual is a hypochondriacs’ dream checklist, with hundreds of diseases linked to the most general of symptoms. Does your head hurt? It’s encephalitis! It has to be!

Contains over 700 famous lines from movies. Use it as a perfect bathroom reader, coffee table book, a quick icebreaker, or you know, find out where that one line is from. Not everyone’s a film buff.

Click on the image above to see the animated trailer for the wickedly irreverent It’s A Book, an all ages picture book that addresses the print vs. digital debate, from the talented Lane Smith.

Chewbacca plays Winnie in James Hance’s mash-up of Winnie the Pooh and Star Wars. Han Solo is Christopher Robin and R2D2 is Piglet. Guess who (or what) plays Eeyore. More art here.

Postertext creates book posters that you can admire and actually read. Each poster has an image silhouetted against the actual text of a book or story. Check back weekly for new posters.

TASCHEN’s beautiful 320-page hardcover book chronicles some of the most original and creative graffiti and urban art around the world. Get a sneak preview of the book here.

According to the description, this “official U.S. Army field manual” provides hundreds of illustrations and techniques for tracking and exterminating those pesky werewolves. Uh, yeah.

(NSFW) Remember those stupid “Choose Your Own Adventure” books? Something Awful has dusted off a number of rare books from the series that we don’t remember reading when we were kids.

This blog comes up with more appropriate titles for popular books, all in the name of fun. The irony is that you actually have to have read half of the books on the blog in order to get the jokes.

Jeff Potter’s tattered cookbook features recipes and lessons from the world of food science, and interviews with geeks, chefs and scientists. We also think it’s the first O’Reilly Cookbook with food.

The new 6-inch Kindles are 21% smaller than prior models, get to 1-month battery life, along with image quality and other improvements. Choose 3G/Wi-Fi or Wi-Fi only versions in white or grey.

If you’re looking forward to BioWare’s and LucasArt’s latest MMORPG, you might want to give this book a read, which is based on the plot-lines in the upcoming Star Wars: The Old Republic.

It’s our hero’s finest hour in Scott Pilgrim’s Finest Hour, the last volume of an epic tale of love, music and video games. Will he and Ramona end up together, or will he get killed trying?