Drive into the Gap
A Drive into the Gap isn’t the kind of story about which I am terribly interested, but I am interested in its format and publication: it appears to be a Field Notes book and that is pretty cool. I...
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One year ago today Paul Carr reviewed Booktrack. And the world was a better place for his wit.
View ArticleBanished from Amazon
This is a troubling story: a Norwegian woman appears to have run afoul of Amazon.com and they won’t tell her why nor what she had done. Her account has been terminated and all her DRMed content is...
View ArticleMoleskine Photo Books
Moleskine is now offering custom photo books. They look quite nice, if also a little more expensive than similar books printed elsewhere. If anyone order one, let me know what the quality is like. I’m...
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U.S. Name A (letter) Legal B (ledger) Super B/Super A3 C D E U.S. Size 8.5 x 11 inches 8.5 x 14 inches 11 x 17 inches 13 x 19 inches 17 x 22 inches 22 x 34 inches 34 x 44 inches Metric Equivalent 216...
View ArticleSagan on Books
A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person,...
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The National Library of the Netherlands has put a considerable number of illuminated Medieval manuscripts on-line. Reasonably high resolution pages are available not only for viewing but also for...
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