handheld reading devices
TeleRead blogs across the horizons of portable reading.
very appreciated link
The legendary
Bieler Press has kindly linked to FotB.
Walt in the 1850’s
Whitman making books
A focused
symposium on the interplay of the poet and book production, the University of Iowa will host another meeting of the characters from the wide perimeters of book studies.
ìI sometimes find myself more interested in book making than in book writing,î Walt Whitman said toward the end of his life; ìthe way books are madeóthat always excites my curiosity: the way books are writtenóthat only attracts me once in a great while.î
Did Walt set the title page of the first edition (1855, Leaves of Grass)? You bet! Did he do it on the machine
paper available in the dingy jobbing shop in Brooklyn?
Yep. And print it on an iron flat bed press? Sure and designed the dies for stamping of the binding cover. And managed the engraving of the frontis? And selected the marbled endpapers and gold edge? And specified case construction, stamping foils, sewing? And visualized editions set and cast by machine? And printed on cylinder press? And imaged to the Web?
Learn more as our own FotB editor, Gary Frost documents the structure of 3 intact copies of the first edition.
speeding along the page
Effective Reading Centers offers to teach you the secret of the manual cursor. This innovation, lost since Antiquity, uses a variety of finger cursings to implant the meaning of text to the mind. Unfortunately, it only works on paper er, not on the screen.
reading by hand
The FotB has contributed to an expanding effort to better evaluate artists’ books. Look at the new Bonefolder for this and other expositions of the future of the book.