no, it is not going away yet
While “Doublefold” is nominated for the best non-fiction book of the year by the National Book Critics Circle, it is also timely to note
“Do We Want to Keep our Newspapers? A Librarian Looks at Preservation” by Karin Wittenborg and the magnificent essay by Tim Barrett in the Autumn 2001, 3/11, UICB
Counter,; “Nicholson Baker’s Double Fold, and the Value of Original Documents”.
side effects of a composite reading mode
“Even in today’s culture of daily sensory overload, with its bombardment of music and synthetic imagery at every turn, a library could be expected to furnish a haven from unwanted distraction. That, at any rate, seems to be the opinion of the Lincoln Center librarians themselves. More than half a dozen with whom I talked reported feeling demoralized by the new reading room.”
“Quiet, Please” New York Times, January 27.
Timeless Tech timed
The dates of the Timeless Tech 2002 symposium in the Idaho hills are set for July 24 to August 7 at the Jim and Melody Croft homestead near Santa, ID. This will be a wonderful event among truely interesting characters in a magnificent setting. The cost, including rustic lodgings and home-grown/home-cooked meals will be kept down to $150 per week.
(more) Also a description of a previous Oldways
event
FotB on the road, 01.22-25.02
FotB produced a lecture and four days of workshops for design students at the University of Northern Iowa. Over 25 students of Phil Fassí design classes attended the workshops with instruction in Cartennage & Free Leaf, Transfer Tape Binding and limited edition Sewn Board binding. Together these workshop projects provide a hands-on introduction to the legacy and future of the sewn board bookbinding structure.
The Meryl Norton Hearst Lecture was titled ìFuture of the Book vs. Book of the Future; Projecting the Print Reading Modeî. About 200 students and guests were entertained with the FotB matrix for reading modes and a narrated slide exposition of the timeless technical, haptic and user attractions of the paper book. The e book and paper book now define each other while all multiplicities of the book format, both historical and futuristic, are merged by a need to preserve conceptual works.
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