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Posts about books
June 24th, 2011
Where The F**k Was I? (by STML) ‘The data in this book was retrieved from the consolidated.db file of James Bridle’s iPhone. This information was recorded anonymously without the user’s knowledge, and represents the device’s own record of its location.’ You can buy it on Lulu for $160 (£100).

Where The F**k Was I? (by STML)

‘The data in this book was retrieved from the consolidated.db file of James Bridle’s iPhone. This information was recorded anonymously without the user’s knowledge, and represents the device’s own record of its location.’ You can buy it on Lulu for $160 (£100).

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June 2nd, 2011
Trithemius believed it was necessary to continue to copy manuscripts by hand, even in the age of the printing press, because of historical precedent, because of the spiritual action of transcription, because of the fragility of printed books (“The printed book is made of paper and, like paper, will quickly disappear. But the scribe working with parchment ensures lasting remembrance for himself and for his text”). In this way, the monks of the Middle Ages came to intimately know and experience the texts that they copied. The act of transcription became an act of meditation and prayer, not a simple replication of letters.

The House of Wisdom | booktwo.org

books product design
October 30th, 2009
shelbot: Wow… MDT made me want to join the Folio Society… books going the way of vinyl– boutique and awesome pressings. http://www.foliosociety.com Do it! Apparently I was once in a bookstore in San Diego that had a lot of these editions. The amount of eye candy was almost overwhelming; we literally just stood staring at a book of spines at one point for about five minutes, soaking it all in.

shelbot:

Wow… MDT made me want to join the Folio Society… books going the way of vinyl– boutique and awesome pressings. http://www.foliosociety.com

Do it! Apparently I was once in a bookstore in San Diego that had a lot of these editions. The amount of eye candy was almost overwhelming; we literally just stood staring at a book of spines at one point for about five minutes, soaking it all in.

books
October 7th, 2009
Cover of Maurice Vlaminck’s Poèmes & Bois Gravès. Paris, Editions de la Galerie Simon, (1921), via Bromer Booksellers. “This binding, apparently made of a polycarbonate, features a kinetic design, both covers consisting of eleven interlocking gear wheels, variously colored with auto paint, housed within a multi-colored frame which has been fashioned into an intrictate pattern of grids and circles. At either fore-edge is a small notch exposing the edge of one of the gears. A turn of this wheel sets all the gears turning in unison, their various colors in motion behind the complicated pattern of the frame, for an almost dizzying effect. The boards are fastened to the spine with metal hinges so that the covers move freely and the gears are easy to manipulate.” Can be yours for a mere $20,000. They also have a copy of Gill’s Four Gospels and some Golden Cockerel stuff, all of which I covet.

Cover of Maurice Vlaminck’s Poèmes & Bois Gravès. Paris, Editions de la Galerie Simon, (1921), via Bromer Booksellers.

“This binding, apparently made of a polycarbonate, features a kinetic design, both covers consisting of eleven interlocking gear wheels, variously colored with auto paint, housed within a multi-colored frame which has been fashioned into an intrictate pattern of grids and circles. At either fore-edge is a small notch exposing the edge of one of the gears. A turn of this wheel sets all the gears turning in unison, their various colors in motion behind the complicated pattern of the frame, for an almost dizzying effect. The boards are fastened to the spine with metal hinges so that the covers move freely and the gears are easy to manipulate.”

Can be yours for a mere $20,000. They also have a copy of Gill’s Four Gospels and some Golden Cockerel stuff, all of which I covet.

books binding
September 14th, 2009
This thumbnail came up in a search for “tight back binding”. Apparently it’s student work from Standford. You can see it in this PDF, but the referring page is down, unfortunately. I’d love to see more photos. Looks amazing.

This thumbnail came up in a search for “tight back binding”. Apparently it’s student work from Standford. You can see it in this PDF, but the referring page is down, unfortunately. I’d love to see more photos. Looks amazing.

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July 29th, 2009
from In Which Molly Reviews True Blood For Your Amusement, via spangley ERIC IS NOT AMUSED. (Now that I’ve finished the Southern Vampire Mysteries, I’m getting a little bored with the TV series. In the books, Bill sucks, Jason is boring, and Sookie and Eric are some of the most lovable pulp literary characters I’ve ever read. Oh, and there are FAERIES. In the television series, there are a lot of butts, Eric is a psycopath, and Sookie is irritating. About the only good thing the added was Layfette—who, oddly, manages to be as spunky and charming as the book’s version of Sookie.)

from In Which Molly Reviews True Blood For Your Amusement, via spangley

ERIC IS NOT AMUSED.

(Now that I’ve finished the Southern Vampire Mysteries, I’m getting a little bored with the TV series. In the books, Bill sucks, Jason is boring, and Sookie and Eric are some of the most lovable pulp literary characters I’ve ever read. Oh, and there are FAERIES. In the television series, there are a lot of butts, Eric is a psycopath, and Sookie is irritating. About the only good thing the added was Layfette—who, oddly, manages to be as spunky and charming as the book’s version of Sookie.)

society television books
June 12th, 2009
Kindle 2 Screensaver Hack

Yay! Will be making some of my favorite authors. (That’s right, Neal & Neil, I’m talking about YOOUUUUUUU.)

reference books
June 1st, 2009
[ excerpt from Like, you know, Stephanie Meyer? Get it?, via ArtJournal ]

[ excerpt from Like, you know, Stephanie Meyer? Get it?, via ArtJournal ]

society books comics
May 24th, 2009
Jane was therefore obliged to go on horseback, and her mother attended her to the door with many cheerful prognostics of a bad day. Her hopes were answered; Jane had not been gone long before it rained hard, and the soft ground gave way to scores of the disagreeable creatures, still clad in their tattered finery, but possessing none of the good breeding that had served them so well in life.

[ from “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” ]

quote books
May 11th, 2009
[ via blog.iso50.com ]

[ via blog.iso50.com ]

design photos books
May 6th, 2009
[ La Parola a Perry Mason, via Pink Ponk ]

[ La Parola a Perry Mason, via Pink Ponk ]

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April 16th, 2009
From Apple Trees to Stone Circles, How to Understand the British Countryside

Sounds charming. From Penguin’s new Particular Books imprint.

books britain
April 8th, 2009
[ Man in Control by Alice Morgan ] I just found out my coworker’s grandma wrote this book. Also this one, and this one, among others.

[ Man in Control by Alice Morgan ]

I just found out my coworker’s grandma wrote this book. Also this one, and this one, among others.

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April 6th, 2009
[ All the Sad Young Literary Men, via the Book Design Review ]

[ All the Sad Young Literary Men, via the Book Design Review ]

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