Getting you ready for the weekend, here’s a selection of bookish and not so bookish links that have been keeping us amused at Windmill HQ.

We like The Oatmeal for it’s many deranged comics, none more so that “How a Web Design Goes Straight to Hell”. Almost makes me glad I didn’t insist on having the office dog stream of consciousness section on the Windmill homepage. Almost.

When I was quite young (well, 16) I tried to navigate London using a tube map. It didn’t work - here’s why.

This looks amazing: a holiday where you go to a country house, get fed and watered, and all you have to do is read. All the time. Sign me up immediately.

Finally, a moment to pay tribute to J D Salinger, who died at the age of 91 in his home on Wednesday. A giant of literature who shunned celebrity, we are left not remembering a personality but the writing itself. The 60 million copies of The Catcher in the Rye sold attest to his huge impact. The Guardian summed it up well, and The Daily Beast has a gallery of Holden Caulfield-influeced characters. So long Mr Salinger, sticking one to all the phonies to the end.