Book Drop goes live
Television crews are coming in from all over the city.
“University of Iowa bookCenter for the Book studies students are offering a unique holiday gift idea along with an unusual shopping experience. Handmade books and kits for binding your own books are available at a new “Book Drop” vending machine installed in the North Lobby of the University of Iowa’s Main Library. The book arts vending project grew out of a class offered at the UI Libraries’ “Structure of the Handmade Book”. The class is a collaborative effort by the UI Center for the Book (UICB) and the UI Libraries.”
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three ringer reinvented
Not since the ruled spine of 17th century Armenian binding has the deep round been so elegantly articulated. The Corporate Image
Round Back is a world class Iowan contribution to the future of the book.
***“Gutenberg has the last laugh here”
AOL Time Warner is shutting down its eBook division. The eBook as a substitution for the Booke didn’t work because its a different reading mode with other applications. (from the
NYTimes, 12/5/2001)
real time book sewing
This is some kind of
video from some kind of logger site that links to FotB. I have been watching it, but can’t decipher the aspect ratio yet.
volumetric
Exhibition: November 16 – December 21 The Ontological Library, by Ronald Leax, is a work so large and so poignant and so evocative that it is almost a state of mind. Books that rust, that grow strange crystals, that become something else altogether, massed together in a rather overwhelming amalgamation; that’s The Ontological Library.
This will take a bit of investigation, but a three fold explanation by D.B.Dowd offers indication that this is real. Its at the
Chicago Center for Paper & Book Art.
Harry Potter and a CLIR Report
There is an underlying relation between the release of the Harry Potter film and the publication of ìEvidence in Hand: Report of the Task Force on the Artifact in Library Collectionsî, November, 2001. The relationship is this; thresholding between reading modes produces new meaning.
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