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Wikisource has begun, at long last, to be able to produce export formats for its books. PDF and Epub have been made available in the last week or so, the first via the WMF-wide book creator tool (which has just started supporting the <pages /> markup that is used on Wikisource to assemble transcribed books) [...]
[Keywords: books, epub, exporting, PDF, Reading, typography, Wikimedia, wikisource] [No comments] [Permanent link]
p.41, on reading the ‘news-in-brief’ section of the daily paper: Tragic end for Verona lovebirds: after mistakenly thinking his sweetheart dead, a young man took his life. Having discovered the fate of her lover, the woman killed herself in turn. A young mother threw herself under a train and died in Russia after domenstic problems. [...]
[Keywords: Alain de Botton, books, Boring, How Proust Can Change Your Life, non-fiction] [No comments] [Permanent link]
[Keywords: books, fiction, P. G. Wodehouse, Piccadilly Jim] [No comments] [Permanent link]
I knew Kernighan and Plauger were forward-thinking, but hadn’t realised they were 22 years ahead of their time! (Oh, and for my own future reference: How to tear in Gimp.)
[Keywords: books, Brian Kernighan, Code Complete, non-fiction, P. J. Plauger, Programming, Reading, Steve McConnell] [No comments] [Permanent link]
[Keywords: America, books, dogs, non-fiction, Reading, travelling, Travels with Charley] [No comments] [Permanent link]
[Keywords: books, non-fiction, Oxford University Press, Pink Dandelion, Quakerism] [No comments] [Permanent link]
[Keywords: books, Carnival, Compton MacKenzie, fiction, hiking, Scotland] [No comments] [Permanent link]
[Keywords: books, Walter Scott, Waverley] [No comments] [Permanent link]
I’m not actually all that enthusiastic about this silly address book plugin, y’know. I’d rather be back fiddling with a little idea I had a while ago for a distributed bibliography thing for WP. Something a bit like LibraryThing, except that all the book data is stored within one’s own database, and importing other people’s [...]
[Keywords: bibliography, books, LibraryThing, Reading, wordpress] [No comments] [Permanent link]
A 'New' Way to Read and Write — January 16th, 2008, 12PM
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I have been reading, lately, about writers’ relationships with computers, specifically the idea that the technology used to write (pen versus keyboard, etc.) affects what’s written. Nothing new in that discussion, but I have noticed one thing: that whilst most writers say that their work is different depending upon what it’s written with, and that [...]
[Keywords: Arts and Crafts (movement), books, cartography, how I write, keyboard vs. pen] [No comments] [Permanent link]
I’m bored and tired this Monday morning, but still I flick through my blog feeds; I found this: [if:book: ephemera] from the Institute for the Future of the Book. It’s an interesting idea: that the inconsequential, unconsidered, printed matter of the day gives ‘the future’ (the people, that is) insight into how normal lives were [...]
[Keywords: archiving, books, how I write, Tools] [No comments] [Permanent link]
So here I am, back in the office, and bored again. I have spent the morning trawling the Arts Full Text database; from the ‘Notebooks’ category, to ‘Reading and Books’, and thence to things about binding, I’ve been remembering that thrill of quiet, sparse, precise, personal times in libraries, with books and a notebook. Nicholson [...]
[Keywords: A Place of One's Own, books, Woodworking] [No comments] [Permanent link]
