To promote a new edition of Dracula, the Canadian branch of Penguin is organising a blood-donation drive. That should certainly get them publicity of some sort.

• Thoreau and the blueberry, from the anti-antioxidant Patrick Kurp.

• Sobriety, prose style and "the Ozzy Osbournes of the literary world".

• From the death-of-print-culture department: the disappearance of those subscription cards that used to fall in such profusion from magazines. Comments divide between "Hurrah!" and "What am I going to use as bookmarks now?"

• Further news on the meaning of "I".

• Thomas Pynchon, irritant.