pilgrim and bee
Mat Brown's
book exemplifies the insights, discoveries and connections of book studies.
"To Brown, seventeenth-century devotional readers are both pilgrims, treating texts as continuous narratives of redemptive journeying, and bees, treating texts as flowers or hives, as spatial objects where information is extracted and deposited discontinuously."
bookbinding motivation
A Wiki Book on
Bookbinding is bound to set you free.
mobility and function
Reading the codex is a physical act. While the mind is assimilating the conveyed content, manipulative hands, finger dexterities and progressive eye tracking work together to pace and advance a mechanical structure. That these two progressions of comprehension and manipulation merge so well in the codex is one of its special attributes in the context of other reading modes. By contrast, screen based reading requires a variety of prompts and screen loading and drawing transmissions many of which distract from attentive reading. Continual de-selection and deletion of unnneeded content is required. Screen text navigation can require a conceptual exercise in itself, at the expense of content assimilation.
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negative entrophy
Almost all expression is non-verbal which means that the book is some kind of exception. The simplest message transmitted by an artifact is, "Something manmade is here"
Visit the Center for Nonverbal
Studies.
still running hypercard
This 12th century book is BOTH eye and machine readable; face-down or face-up capture.
future of the future of the book
The center for research on the prospects for the book and its destiny as a format of cultural transmission has kindly linked to FotB at its
if:book blog site.
grey to green
If every there was a premise to be reconsidered it is the accommodation of collections and library activities in antiquated HVAC environments. The Kilgarlin Center
conference will openly examine this malapropt, returning to the classical Tim Padfield precept of cellulosic buffer responding slowly and gracefully across the seasons. The targets need accommodation to the planet.
Just today I was sent to an HVAC system failure accentuated by three days of rain. Damper stuck and 100% outside came into a fishbowl building. Guess what...mold bloom and the old ecology of the jungle, suddenly. Just what makes us think we can cool summer and heat winter without some side effects?
Be there or be square....Austin in November.
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