The Global Book Map on the Mappit site maps "more than 100,000 books ... that can be searched by countries, regions, or by any of the thousands of specific places the books are set in or are about". You can search by place to see a list of books - here is Edinburgh.

Move expected to make pump pricing more transparent and encourage competition after diesel hits record £2 a litre

Drivers will be able to see live petrol prices on Google Maps for the first time from Thursday, in a move that will help motorists shop around for the cheapest fuel.

Millions of motorists will be able to find the cheapest petrol and diesel prices by searching for a local forecourt in the Google app, in what could prove to be “a major development” in making fuel prices more fair, according to campaigners.

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© Photograph: Yui Mok/PA

© Photograph: Yui Mok/PA

Every charted light on the planet, on its real cycle. [via Kottke, and part of mapped.earth]

How Volkswagen's Flagrant Fraud Screwed Over Russia's Refineries a Decade Later [YT ~17 min.]

William Spaniel is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh. His main YouTube channel, now just branded William Spaniel, was started to supplement his textbook/course Game Theory 101: Game Theory Made Easy*. It is currently focused on international affairs, covering topics such as Why the U.S. Is So Bad at Negotiating Peace Deals and Inevitability: The Critical Strategic Concept Both Wars Hinge On. A side channel, Lines on Maps Extra, recently ended a months-long streak of (combined with the main channel) daily videos that was initially prompted by the Iran war. * Game Theory 101 and the early iteration of Spaniel's channel were featured previously in 2012

Book Corners maps book exchange locations internationally. It currently lists 37,229 community libraries and little free libraries, including 15,926 in France. The programmer is Andrea Grandi.

Some highlights from special collections libraries' blogs this week.
Who Counts? A History of Voting in America
Flying Squirrels and Delicious Garlic: Animals and Plants in an Illuminated Early-Modern Miscellany of Ancient Japanese Poetry
Worth a Thousand Words: The Literary Map Painting Collection
Devotion in Print – Catholic Women and Their Books, 1500-1800

Pamela Toler (History in the Margins, 9/5/26), "The Great Panic of 1893": "occasionally an event, or person, or book, or idea ... shows up in footnotes or casual asides ... if it's interesting or important enough, I share it ... Lately, the Great Panic of 1893 has become insistent." Neil Flanagan (The Birth of a Capital, 9/4/26), "How often do you think about the 1893 World's Fair?": "what draws us to an event, story, or image depends less on the context of the events than the context we inhabit." Photos / maps / VR of the fair. Foods, sweet treats, and "orange cider" of the fair. Pall Mall Magazine and RIBA Journal on the fair. And other magazines that began in 1893 feature Ida Tarbell on "Pasteur at Home," famous prints, rules for psychic / occult investigators, articles on orchidology and astronomy, "Last Week's Paris" followup on anarchists, and the first story of Sexton Blake.

Navigation companies face a new dilemma after President Trump ordered Lake Ontario to be renamed Lake America.

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