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How thoughtful of Nature to not be disturbed by people. It was near to the ship, and there Mr. Broadhurst found the traces of two distinct camps, which nearly a century and a half had not obliterated. Indentations were still apparent in the ground made by the feet of the company while moving, in the [...]
[Keywords: Abrolhos Islands, books, History, nature, Reading, W. B. Kimberly, Western Australia, Wikisource] [No comments] [Permanent link]
Oh for some quiet space in a library! Bring back shushing librarians [arc'd] by Laura Miller in Salon, 2013-01-31.
[Keywords: libraries, quiet, Reading] [2 comments] [Permanent link]
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]
Trees have roots; I have legs. And believe me, that is a huge advantage. [...] Is it possible to read Plato while wearing a Walkman? [...] Books are a great bulwark for private life. [...] Imagine a world where neuro-chemistry could explain Mozart… It is conceivable, and I find it frightening. From Telerama, via Presseurop [...]
[Keywords: articles, culture, dichotomy, George Steiner, Reading, roots, silence] [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]
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]
Reading history is a bit like reading fantasy or sci-fi; it’s just that the fanfic of history is generally more consistent than that of fantasy. I have been reading history lately (Victoria and Disraeli by Theo Aronson, the last couple of days, to be precise; history about personal relationships) and it is the story that [...]
[Keywords: Alternate world, Darkover, fanfic, fantasy, History, Marrion Zimmer Bradley, Reading, Theo Aronson, Victoria and Disraeli] [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: binding, books, ebooks, J K Huysmans, libraries, quiet, Reading] [No comments] [Permanent link]
Hurrying off to uni after remembering the chai & cake stall, I forgot my lunch and the honey (not sweet mate), but managed to prove to myself the wisdom in having a slow bike. [Oh how I wish I could get my digital camera to work with these uni computers!] I got the chai on, [...]
[Keywords: ANU, books, data, Gaston Bachelard, lectures, Reading, storage] [No comments] [Permanent link]
I haven’t posted for a few days because I have not been doing much worthy of note. A bit more playing with boxboard pidgeonholes, a bit of reading (Morris mainly, this morning the first book of The Prelude, as well as sundry other texts relating to the… [gotta go...]
[Keywords: art school, pidgeonholes, Reading] [No comments] [Permanent link]
After many weeks of thinking, scheming and proposing I have at last settled upon this blog form, and so must begin. Have I anything to say? Not much, but this morning Yanagi (yet again) gave me something to think about, and I think it worth sharing. “Crafts are of and for the great mass of [...]
[Keywords: art school, Reading, Soetsu Yanagi, The Unknown Craftsman, woodworking] [No comments] [Permanent link]
