Have you checked out Lonny yet, the online-only home and fashion magazine? The current issue has a feature related to my recently rekindled desire to get my house more organized. With a variety of fun ideas and closet inserts, they get you inspired to find storage in just 20 inches of space. Visit Lonny Magazine and flip through the virtual pages of the spring issue to find this feature. (You can print the pages from their website, too.) — Mary T.

Recently, I’ve been on the hunt for big, beautiful books for my coffee table. Before I can commit, I need to get rid of the stacks of magazines (my guilty pleasure) that are currently hanging out on there en masse. The problem could be solved while saving paper if I switched to T-post, a Sweden-based “world’s first wearable magazine.” Every five weeks, subscribers receive a new T-shirt in the mail with a story printed on the inside and an artist’s interpretation of it displayed on the front. What’s more, graphics can be interactive — the latest “issue” includes a game of rock-paper-scissors that you can play via the T-Post site. Featured news articles tend to be offbeat and thought-provoking to boot, and the graphic T itself is both a fashion piece and conversation starter. At $36 US per issue including shipping, the cost far exceeds that of a traditional magazine, but would clear up some room on the table. Visit T-post to learn more. — Sarah C.

As someone who rarely reads the same thing more than once, I seldom find myself buying books. While I like the idea of a shelf of books with well loved bindings, I have a very well loved library card instead. Recently, though, I’ve been looking for big, beautiful books that I’ll want to revisit often. It’s high time to give that book of crazy cat pictures some competition on the coffee table, but choosing where to begin the collection is difficult. NPR’s list of the Best Gift Books of 2009 was a start, but there are so many big books out there that it’s hard to know which are worth the money, so I’m looking for suggestions. What are your favorite coffee table books? — Sarah C.

If you haven’t been to the Weird Book Room at Abe Books yet, go. Now. With 116 titles ranging from “What Moles Tell You About Yourself” to “Stray Shopping Carts of North America,” you’ll find plenty to give away as gag gifts. Or fill your own shelves. See an odd title that’s missing from their book room? Send Abe Books your suggestion — and post a comment letting us know what you suggested! — Sarah L.

Could you live in Laredo? I couldn’t. Don’t get me wrong — it looks like a beautiful city. But hearing on the news that the town’s only bookstore closed January 16 — leaving the nearest one 150 miles away — got me thinking, first, about the number of bookstores that I’ve seen come and go from my area in the last couple of years (three, at least). And second, about the fact that, as much as I love online convenience, I still love brick and mortar bookstores. For me, it’s both the quiet of the store and the sheer number of shelves there to browse through. How close (or far) is your nearest bookstore? Could you live without it? Why or why not? — Sarah L.

Not sure what to read next? Why not check out The Book Seer (via) for a recommendation? No, it’s not some well-read guy sitting at his computer waiting to share his opinion; it’s a website that allows you to plug in the last good book you read. You’ll instantly get recommendations from sources like Amazon, Book Army, and LibraryThing. See The Book Seer. — Erica P.

The zoo has long since lost its childhood magic for me. The work of Fern Bisel Peat, however, continues to captivate. She lived from 1893 to 1971 and while her illustrations appeared in books, magazines and paper doll collections and on tin toys and puzzles throughout the ’30s and ’40s, I can find little of her work after that. My favorite is still the first one I saw, “Cinderella,” published in 1943, which was my Mom’s growing up. The stepsisters look rotten enough to make your molars ache and Cinderella has lost none of her charm. You can find Cinderella, and other great examples of her work, at AbeBooks.com. One I’ve just discovered is Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Tanglewood Tales, a retelling of the Greek myths for children, which show a different side of Peat’s work. Thankfully, it seems I’m not alone in thinking her work has lost nothing over time. Single-page folios from books, original watercolors, and this new puzzle can also be found on Esty and eBay. — Sarah L.

There are thousands of deadly plants out there, but some are particularly villainous. It’s the plants that “you don’t want to meet in a dark alley” that made it into best-selling gardening author Amy Stewart’s latest book, Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln’s Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities. According to Stewart, “wicked plants” include plants that “have been used as a murder weapon, plants that are illegal or immoral, plants that have started wars, plants that inflict pain, and plants that are badly behaved — they explode, they burst into flames, they smell terrible or destroy other plants in particularly diabolical ways.” Only those plants with back stories and body counts made the cut, and this sounds so deliciously terrifying that I must read it immediately. Let the killer algae nightmares begin! –Sarah C.

Give someone the gift of One Story, and your recipient will receive a new short story in the mail every three weeks for a year. At $21, it’s a steal, especially considering the quality of the writing. (You can view some author information here.) Processing takes 4-6 weeks, so if you want the first story to arrive close to the holidays, it’s not too early to add One Story to your list. I gave it to my youngest sister last year. She loved it so much, when my birthday came up a few months later, I gifted myself! — Sarah L.

The losses just keep coming. Hachette Filipacchi Media US announced today that it will fold Metropolitan Home and focus its energies solely on Elle Décor; the December 2009 issue will be Metropolitan Home’s last. As Elle Décor Editor-In-Chief Margaret Russell mentioned at this year’s Women in Design event, good magazines fold due to issues of the economy, not content — and as always, we wish it weren’t so. Older content from Metropolitan Home can still be found at PointClickHome.com, but the ever-shrinking world of shelter publications won’t be the same without it. — Sarah C.