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lively letterpress!
The fun and dumbfounding artistic flare of commercial letterpress is alive at
YeeHaw Industries.
surge
To get a feel for the recent surge in book studies activities go to the
SHARP top page.
"Book history, reports the Chronicle of Higher Education, has become "a particularly hot topic in the humanities and not just in the United States." The history of the book is not only about books per se: broadly speaking, it concerns the creation, dissemination, and reception of script and print, including newspapers, periodicals, and ephemera. Book historians study the social, cultural, and economic history of authorship; the history of the book trade, copyright, censorship, and underground publishing; the publishing histories of particular literary works, authors, editors, imprints, and literary agents; the spread of literacy and book distribution; canon formation and the politics of literary criticism; libraries, reading habits, and reader response."
drive-in
Everyone loves to read from the screen. Its just a different kind of reading than reading in a book. But like book reading, screen reading is timeless. The first screen was the night sky. High resolution, wide field. Electronic screens still work best in the dark. Pages in the daytime and screens in the nighttime. Its timeless.
high traffic
TopTen has kindly transmitted the FotB feed amid a high traffic array. I hope our rag-top Jeep can keep up!
"It’s true. Librarians are up to a lot more than you might think. Keeping up with the ever-changing world of information technology, fighting the PATRIOT Act or aiding political protestors, librarians do a lot more than check out books. Copyright, intellectual freedom, public health, historic preservation—name any issue, librarians are involved, somehow, some way." Kevin O'Kelly
red typewriter
The New Publisher's Journal has kindly linked to FotB with a hand made button. Cool!
"This is the blog of a company that fell into the publishing industry through the love of feeling an ink-and-paper book in your hands."
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