FotB interviewed by Iowa City newspaper
Q: Has there been a recent watershed moment in the digital revolution or have changes in the book been at an evolutionary rate?
FotB: The watershed moment occurred with the transition to keyboard type setting at the turn of the 20th century. The advent of the keyboard disconnected the compositor from the type and set the stage for computer based book production.
Q: Does the paper book have a future in a world in which more and more information is digitized?
FotB: The paper book has a promising future because more and more information is digitized. Screen based reading is different from print reading and the two behaviors encourage each other. There are differences in legibility, navigation and persistence, but the book and screen are being read together.
Q: So you are optimistic about the future of the book?
FotB: There has been no reason not to be.
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return of a classic II
This
BookLab II binding in the sewn board family of structures has won AIGA top award.
return of a classic
Chris Clarkson has reprinted his ICOM paper on limp vellum binding. Thirty years of additional perspective has only confirmed his early assessment of this stuctural type as exemplary; exemplary in design and exemplary in performance.
A six page Introduction to the Reprint as well as numerous new footnotes adds important commentary. Copies of the book as well as a DVD copy of the miraculous 1970, in camera, film of the binding process are now available from Christopher Clarkson, 31 Stanley Road, Oxford OX4 1QY England.
library success wiki
Here is an
idea wiki for the library avenger.