fragility
Jason Epstein writes, Digitization makes possible a world in which anyone can claim to be a publisher and anyone can...
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defacements
Toby Lichtig confesses — no, boasts: I am, of course, talking about defacing books – a much maligned practice of...
new world, potentially brave
I’ve written elsewhere, once or twice, about the experience of homeschooling my son Wesley. We’re still at it, and...
suspiciously wiki
Wonderful post by Tim Carmody over at Snarkmarket about what I think of as a useful new word — or a new use of an...
culling the tomes
Good advice here, largely from writers, about how to figure out which books in your personal library to get rid of....
minute bodies
“Digitized images of rare and beautiful historic books in the biomedical sciences,” here.
Bookfuturism
Bookfuturism is “mapping the future of the book.” Looks very cool — please check it out.
you do this, you do that
Rachel Cooke writes, “Amazon does not set the synapses crackling the way the sight of a pristine shelf of books does:...
the powers of paper
Don’t know how bookish this is, but it’s a testament to the magnificent adaptability of paper. Here, with a...