For this week’s Snippets, we have the following awesome online reads, tweets and news bites (oh, found a few stragglers, too):

• I regret not looking for him when I was at the Saigon Main Post Office! The Man Who Writes Love Letters: A Day with Saigon’s Last Public Letter Writer, Fiona Ehiers, Spiegel Online International, March 7, 2007
• This should be implemented in mental health facilities in the Philippines! How One Charity Is Tackling Complex Mental Health Problems Using The Simple Power Of Reading, Sam Parker, The Huffington Post UK (Culture), June 11, 2012
• Never say die! Why Ebooks Are Inspiring A New Age Of Print, Andrew Losowsky, The Huffington Post, October 29, 2012
• I “went digital” mainly because of space constraints. But I do agree with many of this writer’s points. The digital challenge, I: Loss & gain, or the fate of the book, Anthony Daniels, The New Criterion, November 2012
• Good question. Why Do We Always Take Books On Vacation?, Andrew Losowsky, The Huffington Post, November 7, 2012
• This article got me interested in Booktrack. Reading Reinvented, Paul Cameron (a.k.a. Booktrack’s co-founder and CEO), The Huffington Post, November 7, 2012
• National Book Store’s Quezon Avenue branch will have a warehouse sale on November 15 to 18! Just might head north for it. Hard to resist discounts of up to 80%! 😉
• A marriage of the old and new. A Unique E-Book Concept Merges Dead Tree Pulp With The Web, Kyle Vanhemert, Fast.CoDESIGN, November 8, 2012
• Welcome to the family! PLDT’s SPi Global acquires US publishing firm, ABS-CBNnews.com, November 10, 2012
• Novelist no more. Philip Roth Quits Writing, The Huffington Post, November 11, 2012
• Hoping things would turn out well, but… yeah. Book publishing crisis: Capitalism kills culture, Scott Timberg, Salon.com, November 11, 2012
• A very sad twist. My Book, ‘Stranger To History’, Was Used To Defend My Father’s Killer, Aatish Taseer, The Huffington Post, November 13, 2012
• One company takes another route − or, to use an uso word, “pivots”. A One-Stop, Web-Based Shop For Comic Book Publishing, Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan, Fast Co.DESIGN, November 13, 2012
• Oh, Bridget. The party’s over. Spare us the Bridget Jones sequel!, Mary Elizabeth Williams, Salon.com, November 14, 2012