library loss
As reported, the disaster at Pass Christian now includes
loss of rare imprints and documents. Digital back-ups survive.
Pass Christian was leveled and it is reasonable that the bank vault was only recently dug out more than two months after storm, in which case the wet archives could be molded and difficult to salvage. The items pictured do appear savageable.
WikiTome
Wikipedia is considering a
print version. It will be a best seller.
Meanwhile
Google Print is another pop-up.
if: book
I certainly enjoy this measured on-line
discussion incited by a print book. Effective discussion is engendered because contentions and implications are referenced to a print work which is passively mediating the tangents. This is one option, that screen based reading is an accessory of print in the important sense that on-line discussion follows the print ìlinksî. The thresholding alone, bridging between reading modes and exercising interpretations that collate print and blog, is a promising exemplar of the future of the book.
future of the book future workshop
Syracuse University November 2006
lecture and workshop.
look twice at Sam’s clever setting of his name for the camera (he did not use the letter S) (the answer)
justifying sentences
“The process of putting his fingers on the molded metal letters, feeling their weight, and sliding them along precise rows into words and sentences as he smoked his outsize “Cigar” seems to have annealed him to language as a tactile presence in his hands. The paradigm of typesetting governed his prose writing and his hand writing, resonating with his speaking style.”
Ron Powers from his new book Mark Twain
wiki textbook
FotB likes the
Wiki book model provided that it is used by students to produce their own textbooks. This approach has a number of instructional advantages, the first of which is that students will then be induced to read their textbook.