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As someone who seriously considered getting a tattoo of a bookworm, I am always on the lookout for high quality, informative, and interesting long-form reads on the Internet.
Sure, I can read a book or fire up the ol' Kindle for my genuine literature fix, but what about lazy days when I want to pop back and forth between a few tabs, or I need to take a 10-minute break from a project at work?
Enter long-form reads.
Everyone who enjoys long-form journalism likely has a few sites bookmarked (Quartz, Medium, Salon, Slate, Vulture, and a few specialty sites or novelty sites--mine include Rands in Repose, The Last Psychiatrist and Wait But Why), but they're continually searching for more to fill the "blog hole" that develops when you reach the last page of a once-undiscovered country of an amazing long-read blog.
The Collector's Weekly Blog is your new long-form read. For real.
With articles ranging from fashion history to more serious and topical sociological explorations, this little-known blog delivers.
Article on varied topics including the history of the marketing of trailers (mobile homes, RV's), the origin and rise of paper dresses, Presidential Yachts, and "That Time the French Aristocracy was Obsessed with Sexy Face Stickers", Collector's Weekly delivers history, culture, sociology, anthropology, and psychology and philosophy with more than a dash of wit and style.
If you think Collector's Weekly was only good for door-stopper tomes cataloging the value of various terrifying porcelain dolls, hidden away in a little-seen part of the library, you are in for a delightful surprise.
Ideal for:
--Deep dive rabbit hole afternoons when you just want to read and read and read and read
--Skinny dipping into 1-2 articles on lunch hour
--Reference skimming for producing your own content
--Expanding your knowledge base
--Cut and paste and send to Nana! Weekly email handled
--Drooling over other collections and heretofore-unknown- to- you prominent figures in your collection field of choice (collect vintage jewelry? check out the article on Napier!)
Check it out today!
http://www.collectorsweekly.com/