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Capturing dealer descriptions in our online catalog - Yale Law Library - Rare Books Blog
"Attractive and rare set of decrees concerning the functioning of the judiciary in the papal city of Bologna. These city statutes were promulgated by the Pope's legate, Cardinal Benedetto Giustiniani (1554-1621). Despite the issuing authority, the constitutions (a word indicating legislation of the highest level) are entirely non-religious in content, relating to civil law justice in the city. They shed considerable light into how courts worked in Bologna. Included are instructions on cases involving poor people; rules for notaries; the keeping of registers; seizures of property; taking of suspects; payment of officers; expert witnesses; and the governing of appeals. Pages 192-198 comprise papal edicts on the salaries of Bolognese judges and notaries." -- Leo Cadogan Rare Books (Dec. 2011)
books  catalog  nanohistory  librarians  metadata 
4 weeks ago by Vaguery
New Tlingit encyclopedia baffling to scholars, speakers | KCAW
"The massive work by New Zealand scholar Sally-Ann Lambert is extraordinarily detailed, and the product of years of effort.

The problem is: The language in the book is not recognizable by contemporary scholars, or Native Tlingit speakers."
language  race  racism  tlingit  books  articles  via:itrasbiel  via:ignatz 
february 2012 by Vaguery
2011 in Review
to-read  to-keep-in-mind  lists  movies  books  comix 
january 2012 by Vaguery
BOOKTRYST: The Guild of Women Binders, Bound To Be Great
"…Matching blue morocco doublures are tooled with an attractively complex central ornament encompassing considerable stippling and twenty large stylized flowers on curvilinear stems. Vellum free endleaves are ornamented with gilt hearts at the corners, and the top edge is gilt."
books  bookbinding  decorative-art  nanohistory 
october 2011 by Vaguery
The Exile Bibliophile: Books: Owning them, Loving them
"So, I recently discovered Stacked Up: Writers Show off their Shelves, which is exactly what it sounds like. Short interviews with writers and some of their books. Just wonderful, though a bit too NYCentric to be truly invigorating. I just don't get that worked up over THE BIG DEAL that is NYC. Give me space, keep your crowds! But, NYC is where a LOT of writers live, so I can't be too cranky about it. Hopefully the Stacked Up folks will one day be able to get off the little island and out into the real world. Anyway, go enjoy these things Book Folk-- you're not alone."
books  bibliomania  bookshelves  another-tag-involving-the-word-books  authorship  writing-culture  video 
august 2011 by Vaguery
Nature of Computation
"Computational complexity is one of the most beautiful fields of modern mathematics, and it is increasingly relevant to other sciences ranging from physics to biology. This book gives a lucid and playful explanation of the field, starting with P and NP-completeness. The authors explain why the P vs. NP problem is so fundamental, and why it is so hard to resolve. They then lead the reader through the complexity of mazes and games; optimization in theory and practice; randomized algorithms, interactive proofs, and pseudorandomness; Markov chains and phase transitions; and the outer reaches of quantum computing. At every turn, they use a minimum of formalism, providing explanations that are both deep and accessible. The book is intended for graduates and undergraduates, scientists from other areas who have long wanted to understand this subject, and experts who want to fall in love with this field all over again."
books  computational-complexity  complexology  hey-I-used-to-work-with-that-guy  want 
august 2011 by Vaguery
Why Do We Quote? The Culture and History of Quotation - Open Book Publishers
"This is a rich and engaging work of outstanding scholarship. Scholars in sociolinguistics, literature, and folklore will recognize the importance of the book for their fields. General readers will find it just plain interesting"
academic-culture  books  want 
may 2011 by Vaguery
The Myth of Innate Genius: David Shenk's New Book, The Genius in All Of Us - The Daily Beast
We were all taught to believe in the paradigm of innate intelligence and gene-given talent, "gifts, and no one is going to be convinced otherwise by a few micro-biographical fragments. I go into much greater depth about gene expression and the nuances of the new developmental model of talent (Hint: It doesn't mean we all control our own destiny, or that it all comes down to hard work). Over time, we'll learn to think past the black and white notion of nature vs. nurture. And the world will be a richer place for it.
books  cultural-assumptions  genius  nature-and-nurture-sittin-in-a-tree 
may 2011 by Vaguery
Closing the Gap Between Publishers and Readers | Digital Book World
"Maybe depressed isn’t quite the right word. “Cognizant of absurdity” captures it better (I’m sure the Germans have a good word for this). What I’m seeing on the Javitz Center floor plan is an effort by publishers to remove themselves once and for all from the people they perceive to be their customers–librarians and booksellers. And the people who actually buy the products…you know, actual readers? Of course, they continue to be completely shut out. Not invited to the party."
publishing  disintermediation-in-action  books  reading  trade-shows  business-model-failure 
april 2010 by Vaguery
Ironic Sans: They Don't Make Computer Manuals Like They Used To
"For example, the manual for the Franklin Ace 100 begins with about 40 pages of computer basics (What are they? What can they do? etc). And then, on page 40, two thirds of the way down the page, there is a chapter heading called “The Ancestral Territorial Imperatives of the Trumpeter Swan.” Here’s how the chapter begins:…"
computer-science  nanohistory  books  cultural-assumptions  models-and-modes 
april 2010 by Vaguery
PictureIt Rare Book Reader | MLibrary
"PictureIt is a web-based animation program that gives users the sensation of turning the pages of digitized rare materials that would be otherwise difficult, if not impossible, to view or obtain. Volume 1 of John James Audubon’s Birds of America was selected as the inaugural PictureIt book for a few reasons. Foremost, the eight volume set has special meaning as the first purchase for the Library by the Board of Regents of the University of Michigan. As well, the University of Pittsburgh had already digitized all volumes of the Birds of America set and was willing to share the images with the Library. And finally, the illustrated plates of this set were intricately completed, making them as much art work as scientific work. Volume 1 of Audubon’s Birds of America was also selected for the first PictureIt book because its complex images demonstrate the product’s embedded magnification tool which allows users to get up-close and view the details of each illustration."
digitization  books  FLASH-:(  user-interaction  user-interface  via:rosefirerising 
march 2010 by Vaguery
Book Scanning « The Half-Baked Maker
"I personally scan the books I bought because I’m tired of thousands of them cluttering up my house, ending up lost at the bottom of a box marked Dishes, getting eaten by bugs, or attacked by acid inherent in the paper. If you don’t like the idea of reading electronic editions of books, stop reading here! Also, if you think format-shifting is intellectual property theft, stop reading here. There are as many reasons people have for scanning books as there are people:…"
DIY  book-scanning  digitization  books  makers  social-network-failed-us-here-until-now 
march 2010 by Vaguery
The Acquisitions Table « PastIsPresent.org
"Although much comes in, there is still plenty for us to seek out and acquire. We are omnivorous in our appetite for material printed in the United States before 1877—if we don’t already have it, we want it, and even if we do have it, we might want another copy if it is slightly different or in better condition than the one we have. We also add secondary materials to the collections to support research here."
acquisitions  antiquarian  books  nanohistory  bibliophilia 
december 2009 by Vaguery
'Smell of old books' offers clues to help preserve them
"Scientists may not be able to tell a good book by its cover, but they now can tell the condition of an old book by its smell. In a report in ACS' Analytical Chemistry, a semi-monthly journal, they describe development of a new test that can measure the degradation of old books and precious historical documents based on their smell. The nondestructive "sniff" test could help libraries and museums preserve a range of prized paper-based objects, some of which are degrading rapidly due to advancing age, the scientists say."
degradomics  analytical-chemistry  books  preservation  bibliophilia  conservation 
december 2009 by Vaguery
Pictorial Webster's: Inspiration to Completion on Vimeo
"From the discovery of the 1898 International Dictionary to linotyping the entries to printing the last print on the vandercook to cutting the fingertabs of the deluxe edition, this video gives a quick overview of the process of creating the Pictorial Webster's fine press edition."
bookbinding  books  bookmaking  book-art  printing  letterpress  wood-engraving  art  decorative-art 
november 2009 by Vaguery
myliblog: Uncle Bobby's Wedding
"Your third point, about the founders' vision of America, is something that has been a matter of keen interest to me most of my adult life. In fact, I even wrote a book about it, where I went back and read the founders' early writings about the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. What a fascinating time to be alive! What astonishing minds! Here's what I learned: our whole system of government was based on the idea that the purpose of the state was to preserve individual liberties, not to dictate them. The founders uniformly despised many practices in England that compromised matters of individual conscience by restricting freedom of speech. Freedom of speech – the right to talk, write, publish, discuss – was so important to the founders that it was the first amendment to the Constitution – and without it, the Constitution never would have been ratified."
rights  censorship  libraries  culture-war  community  writing  books  reading  freedom 
october 2009 by Vaguery
Johns Hopkins Magazine – The Autodidact Course Catalog
"One would be hard-pressed to disapprove of autodidacticism. Consider a list of notable alumni from the academy of the self-taught: René Descartes, Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, William Blake. Michael Faraday apprenticed himself to a bookseller and read everything he could before going on to figure out electromagnetism. August Wilson schooled himself at the Carnegie Library in Pittsburgh after dropping out of the ninth grade. Arnold Schoenberg claimed to be an autodidact, and who are we to dispute it? Frank Zappa advised, “Forget about the senior prom and go to the library and educate yourself, if you’ve got any guts.” Hear, hear. (Though if the prom band is playing Frank Zappa songs, we’re donning a powder-blue brocade tux and we’re going.)"
autodidact  generalism  continuing-education  learning  pedagogy  independence  reading  books  teaching  to-read 
september 2009 by Vaguery
“When I look at books, I see an outdated technology, like scrolls before books…” « Lisa Gold: Research Maven
"This is stupid on so many levels that I forced myself to wait a full day before blogging about it so I wouldn’t rant incoherently."
digitization  idiocy  libraries  books  microfilm-all-over-again  that-Santayana-quote-you-know-the-one 
september 2009 by Vaguery
The greatest analyst of Marxism who ever lived (Thomas P.M. Barnett :: Weblog)
"We learn history not in order to know how to behave or how to succeed, but to know who we are."
political-science  history  writing  obituaries  books  marxism 
september 2009 by Vaguery
OnTheCommons.org » Varieties of Enclosure & Commons Alternatives
"An important addition to the growing international dialogue about the commons can be found in the new anthology, Genes, Bytes and Emissions: To Whom Does the World Belong? (discussed in this previous blog post). Recently released in German, the essays in this book are now available online in English.

The book was edited by Silke Helfrich and published by the Heinrich Boell Foundation; Helfrich is the former director of the Foundation’s Mexico City office, which hosted a major conference, Citizenship and Commons, in December 2006. The collection, whose title in English is To Whom Does the World Belong? offers a thoughtful and provocative array of viewpoints on the commons. (The links below connect to pdf files of the essays.)"
commons  economics  public-policy  law  sustainability  books  essays  philosophy  social-norms  Workantile 
june 2009 by Vaguery
Snarkmarket: Virginia Woolf on the Future of the Book
"Books ought to be so cheap that we can throw them away if we do not like them, or give them away if we do. Moreover, it is absurd to print every book as if it were fated to last a hundred years. The life of the average book is perhaps three months. Why not face this fact? Why not print the first edition on some perishable material which would crumble to a little heap of perfectly clean dust in about six months time? If a second edition were needed, this could be printed on good paper and well bound. Thus by far the greater number of books would die a natural death in three months or so. No space would be wasted and no dirt would be collected."
Virginia-Woolf  books  publishing  selection  everything-old-is-still-new 
may 2009 by Vaguery
The X10 Book, first edition [LED display in spine of book] | RazorNylon
I find myself wondering when I can have a sheet of Arduino-complexity rice-grain-sized chips fabricated. On demand.
books  hacks  maker  altered-books  Arduino  engineering 
may 2009 by Vaguery
What is FRBR?
"Based on an article originally published in Technicalities (v. 25, no. 5, Sept./Oct. 2003), this pamphlet provides a brief overview of the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) as developed by the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA). Using full-color graphics, What is FRBR? outlines the background of the development of the Functional Requirements, the concepts involved and their potential impact on cataloging rules, bibliographic structures and systems design for cataloging applications."
books  cataloging  bibliography  metadata  libraries  technical  specification  ontology  bookphile  bibliographies 
april 2009 by Vaguery
ruby-marc
libraries  MARC  books 
april 2009 by Vaguery
In This Issue
"Can you blame us for being a defensive lot, we lovers of early American literature, when all about us we see America's political Founding Fathers (and sometimes Mothers) celebrated like rock stars, on t-shirts, in miniseries, and, most enviably, with best-selling biographical tomes? What about our literary Founding Fathers (and Mothers)? Anne Bradstreet? Edward Taylor? Charles Brockden Brown? Don't they too deserve a little name recognition: at least a spot on CSPAN or a line-drawing portrait on a bookbag? We who cherish early American books and writers come by our defensiveness honestly. It is a long-standing American intellectual tradition, pioneered by fine American literary minds like William Ellery Channing, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Herman Melville, each of whom in his own way responded to that stinging question posed by Sydney Smith in the Edinburgh Review in January 1820: "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book?""
history  books  publishing  Americana  magazines 
april 2009 by Vaguery
The Other Panic of 1819
"... Moreover, in order to raise capital and extend their credit over the long, unpredictable term of [an item's] market life, they often endorsed or guaranteed each other's promissory notes, in this way creating elaborate networks of mutual dependence. As a result, when one firm became insolvent, it often took several others down with it. But to make things even worse, many [brokers of these items] estimated their net worth based on unsold (and devalued) inventory rather than on a more realistic accounting of their assets. This meant that, at any given time, it was difficult for a [broker of these items] to know either his own true financial position or that of the firms whose notes he'd endorsed. Thus, by 1819, with many thousands of worthless [items] circulating as inflated currency, the bankruptcy of a [broker of these items] was a frequent occurrence."
financial-crisis  books  bookselling  this-has-all-happened-before  nanohistory  history  cause-and-effect  social-networks  economics  gales-of-derisive-change 
april 2009 by Vaguery
The Collected Works of John Dewey
If you want to buy me a present, buy me this. The whole set.
John-Dewey  Dewey  philosophy  collection  pragmatics  education  craft  learning  books  expensive-but-desired 
march 2009 by Vaguery
MediaShift . 5 Great Services for Self-Publishing Your Book | PBS
"Even things that you might expect to come standard -- like an International Standard Book Number (ISBN), without which a book won't be offered for sale by many professional booksellers -- are often only available at extra cost, so authors should always read the fine print to know what they're getting into. While you're shopping around, here's a quick look at five good possibilities for POD publishing:"
POD  print-on-demand  publishing  self-publishing  books  media  authors  printing  resources 
march 2009 by Vaguery
Tor.com / Science fiction and fantasy / Blog posts / Suvudu Opens Free First (e)Book Library
"Says Christine Cabello, Random House Publishing Group Deputy Director of Marketing: “The Suvudu Free First Book promotion provides us with a new digital vehicle to build an author’s fan base and is an ideal way to bring new readers to these series.”"
marketing  genre-fiction  publishers  free  books  first-taste 
march 2009 by Vaguery
6 Ways to Publish Your Own Book
publishing  self-publishing  books  writing  media  productivity  DIY  review 
march 2009 by Vaguery
Printing and Binding Services Offered at Deep Wood Press
" Here at Deep Wood, with the equipment we have, the possibilities are nearly endless. We can die cut, perforate, blind stamp, deboss, emboss, foil stamp and print onto most any material. Due to our "dated" technology the results of process color printing are not to par with modern day offset printing technologies but letterpress excels at most everything else if you are trying to imbue your project with a sense of timeless quality and lasting impression. There is something about the impression of type on a fine surfaced paper which is both a visual and tactile experience that is relayed to the person holding your printed material on many different levels. Do you remember the last time you noticed printing and presentation? If you think about it you'll see where our true value lies. Our products are quality not necessarily quantity."
letterpress  craftsman  local  Michigan  books  book-art  fine-binding 
march 2009 by Vaguery
Of books and unbooks « Adam Greenfield’s Speedbird
"Well. As Dave Gray points out, “An unbook’s community is a very real part of the unbook’s development team.” I wouldn’t necessarily have used the phrase “development team,” for the obvious reasons, but the point stands. Your voice is a part of this book we’re writing, and not the least significant. What do you think?"
via:britta  collaboration  media  books  publis  publishing  community  ebooks  example 
february 2009 by Vaguery
Charles Stross book event — Crooked Timber
Charles-Stross  economics  science  politics  literature  books 
january 2009 by Vaguery
Wynken de Worde: "Frances Wolfresston hor bouk"
"That in and of itself is a rich testament to the circulation of books. But there is more to be discovered. If you examine the Folger's catalogue entry for this volume, you will notice that one of the associated names is "Wolfreston, Frances, 1607-1677, inscriber". If you follow that link, you will discover that the Folger has an additional 10 books signed by Frances Wolfreston in its collections. Frances Wolfreston, you will soon realize, was an early modern book collector and her library of books, nearly all carefully inscribed with "Frances Wolfreston her bouk", can be found dispersed among some of the greatest library collections today. Another post will be devoted to exploring her and her collection."
books  antiquarian  nanohistory  marginalia  archives 
january 2009 by Vaguery
Wynken de Worde: school books
"Reproduced above is the title page of from a 1557 edition. The most noticeable thing about it, I think, is that nearly all the white space has been written on by its users. I want to point out one particular set of scribblings, those words just above the printer's device and enlarged below:"
books  bibliophilia  notes  marginalia  nanohistory 
january 2009 by Vaguery
Brave New World: Digitisation - It's Not About 'Books'
"Now we would ask the average book publisher what they see themselves as? We would guess that 'rights manager and owner' wouldn’t be on the tip of most tongues. Some would say that publishing isn’t about books it’s simply about content and rights and understanding the market and channel to it. If we were to look at the trade as a rights trade what would that mean moving forward?

Why do we presume that the physical content will merely morph into the digital. History has surely taught us that media survives but has to adapt to new forms. Fiction is not about books of 75,000 words or 250 pages, its more about telling a good story that captivates, engages and stimulates readers. Why does this have to be any specific length? "
publishing  business-model  books  digitization  MSM  disintermediation  futurism 
january 2009 by Vaguery
Dialogue with Les Harrison: Books and Digital Object « Fill His Head First with a Thousand Questions
"... Their procedures took the physical object as the unit of reproduction. Because the Barrett copy of Uncle Tom’s Cabin was collected in the form that it was, I photographed each newspaper number within it in order. When it came time to plan my own digital project, which included a facsimile reproduction of the Barrett object and a transcription of Stowe’s text, I had multiple choices. But I had already completed a digital reproduction of the Barrett object that included photographs of covers, end papers, and the pages of numbers that lacked installments of Stowe’s text. The theory, I would submit, is an effort to deal thoughtfully with an institutional procedure of reproduction that contrasted with my own interest in the transcription. Had I been in charge of the reproduction–not forced to engage against institutional practices–I might well have decided to reproduce only those pages that include Stowe’s text..."
via:mahatm  via:britta  digitization  books  ebooks  humanities  scholarship  cultural-norms  edition  works  bookphile 
january 2009 by Vaguery
languagehat.com
"I won't even get into what she has to say about the hell that is commercial publishing, with its ignorant editors and unkept promises, and the terrible financial pressure that makes writers stifle current work they're excited about to try and sell long-finished work they're bored or nauseated by, because it gets me too upset. Why do zillionaires give zillions to museums and operas and never think of, as she says, sponsoring an admired writer's travel expenses or offering them six months' writing time at a vacation home? If I were a zillionaire, that's the kind of thing I'd want to do... but of course to become a zillionaire I'd have to care about money and the making of same in large quantities, and then I'd be a different person and probably never think about the problems of writers. It's a conundrum."
publishing  books  design  transparency  reference  awareness  contract  law  copyright  recordkeeping 
january 2009 by Vaguery
Books from the Ashes
"Here’s what I think: I think we would see a flourishing of innovation and the kind of excitement the book business has not seen since the paperback was invented. These companies (sellers and publishers) aren’t all going to close their doors, but a good number might."
publishing  business  business-model  disintermediation  books 
december 2008 by Vaguery
viaLibri - Rare Books - Resources for Bibliophiles, Librarians and Collectors
books  bibliomania  search-engines  specialization  aggregation  research  antiquarian  bookselling  shopping  reference  bibliography 
december 2008 by Vaguery
Publishing the Unpublishable
via:timoreilly  publishing  books  experiment  editing  literature 
december 2008 by Vaguery
Relax with CouchDB
"This is the home of a free O’Reilly Media book about Apache CouchDB.

The book is designed to guide you gently through using CouchDB with clear but practical scenarios. We progressively showcase key features, starting with simple document CRUD, working through to advanced MapReduce, and culminate with deployment tuning for performance and reliability."
CouchDB  programming  books  ebooks  database  O'Reilly  Apache  mapreduce  opensource 
december 2008 by Vaguery
O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference 2009 - O'Reilly Conferences, February 09 - 11, 2009, New York, NY
conference  O'Reilly  TOC  publishing  future  books  literati  technorati 
november 2008 by Vaguery
Typotheque: Microtypography, Designing the new Collins dictionaries by Mark Thomson
via:ognjen  design  graphic-design  typography  font  books  book-design  publishing  reading  dictionary 
november 2008 by Vaguery
The Myth of Print Culture: Essays on ... - Google Book Search
"...How are such things as editions, states, variants, or even the book itself to be discussed? To what extent is a printed book singular? And to what extent does the (inaccurate) scholarly assumption that it is not, enable reasonable and useful discussion of such objects to proceed?"
via:britta  books  bibliomania  scholarship  models  academia  Platonism  printing  publishing  assumptions  cultural-norms  relevance 
october 2008 by Vaguery
FF Atma OT Collection | Font Download | FontShop
typography  books  publishing  project  transitional  typeface  font 
october 2008 by Vaguery
Limited Edition Hemingway Broadside Issued « Mittenlit’s Blog
Kerrytown-BookFest  local  Ann-Arbor  festival  event  Michigan  Hemingway  letterpress  books 
august 2008 by Vaguery
The Hive of "The Bee-hunter": A ... - Google Book Search
"See yonder!" said Tom, stretching his long arm into infinite space, "see yonder—there's a bee!"
digitization  nanohistory  novels  Google  books  oddities 
august 2008 by Vaguery
The Predator State: A Summary (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought)
"6: The argument for free trade comes from Ricardo's "comparative advantage" -- a clever textbook exercise, but irrelevant to the real world since it assumes constant costs. In reality, either you produce manufactured goods, in which your costs go down as you make more, or you sell off commodities, in which case your costs go up as you make more. With the former, it takes time for local industry to build up the advantage (requiring protectionism). With the latter, you end up like Mongolia, which opened up its animal husbandry market, swelling herd sizes, turning grass into permanent desert, and killing off the entire market. With no other exports, such a country is in big trouble. Ricardo was wrong: diversification, not specialization, is the way to develop -- and how every successful country has. Unfortunately, we've forced this broken system on most of the world....
via:cshalizi  economics  public-policy  planning  America  myths  diversity  summary  books 
august 2008 by Vaguery
/Message: The New Literacy and The Enemies Of The Future
"The elephant in the room is the movement from solitary studying to a collective, hivemindish mode of learning, where kids are shifting for questioning to answering, from learning to teaching all the time."
reading  fear  social-norms  books  literacy  education  transformation  collaboration 
august 2008 by Vaguery
Marginal Revolution: Reading the OED
Accismus: "no, no, really, I can't"
books  dictionary  language  esoterica  English 
july 2008 by Vaguery
MeL: The Michigan eLibrary
History links
MeL  library  local  digitization  archive  reference  books  library2.0 
july 2008 by Vaguery
DARE WEBPAGE
Somebody was asking about this in a conversation. Ed?
DARE  local  language  dictionary  closed  books  geography  regionalism  project  reference  culture  linguistics 
july 2008 by Vaguery
Mightygodking.com » Blog Archive » Bad habits.
"Attack of the Impractical Horde" seems the winner in my book
books  rpgs  Steve-Jackson  amusing  photoshop  vintage 
june 2008 by Vaguery
Superpatron - Friends of the Library, for the net: How do you keep track of your list of books?
Cosma: go tell Ed what you do
books  archive  collections  catalog  organization  methodologies 
june 2008 by Vaguery
Albert Goldbarth: "Library"
poetry  books 
may 2008 by Vaguery
Vintage Publishing - Lulu.com
I wouldn't want a Kirtas touching most of the fancy stuff I scan. Really. I don't trust me, let alone a robot.
digitization  books  scanning  archives  services  advertising  republishing  reprinting 
may 2008 by Vaguery
Some preliminary notes on the aesthetic merits of interesting catalogues. at Bibliophagist
books  catalog  collecting  lists  miscellanies  aesthetics  exploration 
april 2008 by Vaguery
Links to WEN Members Web Pages
wood-engraving  books  book-art  printing  letterpress  typography  art  design  artisan 
april 2008 by Vaguery
Briar Press | A letterpress community
letterpress  arts  book  books  craft  equipment  history  organization  printers  printing  printmaking  production  publishing  typography 
april 2008 by Vaguery
SRU: Search/Retrieval via URL -- SRU, CQL and ZeeRex (Standards, Library of Congress)
access  API  books  catalog  content  development  interoperability  linking  REST  search  standards  web2.0 
april 2008 by Vaguery
WorldCat RSS
WorldCat  lists  RSS  feeds  books 
april 2008 by Vaguery
Working with the WorldCat API | code4lib
WorldCat  API  programming  books  archives  library2.0 
april 2008 by Vaguery
The Cutthroat World of Book Scouting
What's that old thing worth?
economics  books  bookseller  scarcity  consensus  markets  pricing  experiment  antiquarian 
april 2008 by Vaguery
[Best not over-generalize]
"But you, sir, are no painter. And while you hack away at your terminal, or ride your homemade Segway, we painters and musicians are going to be right over here with all the wine, hash, and hot chicks."
analogies  commentary  criticism  philosophy  books  hacking  programming  art 
march 2008 by Vaguery
bookporn #28: the seminary co-op bookstore, university of chicago « a historian’s craft
via:cshalizi  books  desire  bookseller  images  browsing 
march 2008 by Vaguery
boingboing on free reading
"the biggest threat writers face is the overall unpopularity of reading books, not people reading for free"
openness  marketing  books  publishing  copyright  drm  emergency  business-plan 
march 2008 by Vaguery
AsukaBook - Custom Coffee Table Quality Art Books
books  bookbinding  photography  printing  self-publishing  make 
february 2008 by Vaguery
Dagon on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
illustration  wood-engraving  public-domain  digitization  books  folklore  design  graphic-design 
february 2008 by Vaguery
Books with stuff written inside them on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
physical folksonomy
catalog  books  collaboration  emergence  library  photos  students  smart 
february 2008 by Vaguery
Light Up Your World
via:mitten  lighting  industrial  design  decorative-art  books  bibliomania 
february 2008 by Vaguery
Steven Levy at Hatcher Library
library2.0  books  technology  meeting  public-speaking  school-of-information  local  Michigan  University-of-Michigan 
february 2008 by Vaguery
Another textbook outrage—and an opportunity for E | TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home
academia  publishing  books  textbooks  economics  business-plan  openness  disintermediation 
february 2008 by Vaguery
John King Books tilt-shift effect, Detroit on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
John-King  books  bookseller  bookshop  photography  special-effects 
february 2008 by Vaguery
Flickr: Photos tagged with bookshop
books  bibliomania  book-art  bookshop  photography  photos 
february 2008 by Vaguery
14theditch - Sheppard Lee: Written By Himself
nanohistory  books  esoterica  American  literature  novel 
february 2008 by Vaguery
best of craigslist : An apology to the Ayn Rand man - w4m
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