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The Big Green Bookshop now has its own blog where you can follow its progress. And, OK, maybe I can be a tad impatient when it comes to some bookshops, but I wish Simon Key and Tim West all the luck I can muster. As Simon says himself: "We want to give the residents of Wood Green a shop that they're proud of, a place where there's always something happening, be it an author event, a reading group, a coffee morning, an evening of music or poetry, or just a place where they can be inspired by something they find on the shelves.

More than 100,000 old books previously unavailable to the public will go online thanks to a mass digitisation programme at the British Library. The programme focuses on 19th Century books, many of which are unknown as few were reprinted after first editions.