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On New Year's Day, every book at the Lake Forest Park location of Third Place Books will be on sale for 20% off. They have these sales every year, but this one is a little special in that it's the first sale in which you can buy books from the brand-new Espresso book-printing machine at Third Place Books.

Over at his blog, Third Place's resident book-printer, Vladimir Verano, has written about a couple of interesting books he's found and printed in the last few weeks. One is a sci-fi adventure from the 1890s in which someone gets a tour of Hollow Earth from "a being that is completely hairless, eyeless, sexless." Another is D'Orcy's Airship Manual: An International Register of Airships With a Compendium of the Airship's Elementary Mechanics, by Ladislas D'Orcy, a guide to experimental airships from 1917.

The variety of books available for publication is mind-boggling. You can look up titles and authors on Third Place Press's website, and get them for 20% off tomorrow. It'd be a great time to introduce yourself to the possibilities of the Espresso Book Machine and how, as I said last week, it "takes the greatest retail weapon in the world—convenience—out of the hands of the internet and chain stores, and places it squarely in the hands of small business."