Tag: Books

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| July 28, 2009

more about margins

Not long ago I wrote a post about (among other things) the value of marginal annotations of books, and lo and behold,...

| July 24, 2009

how to apologize

It's rare to see a straightforward public apology with nary a weasel-word in it, but that's precisely...

| July 23, 2009

shelving

Wonderful post at A Working Library about libraries, ways of organizing information, and the varieties of metadata: Aby...

| July 17, 2009

wait — where did it go?

David Pogue, from here: This morning, hundreds of Amazon Kindle owners awoke to discover that books by a certain famous...

| July 16, 2009

the story of a discovery

In 1815, Cardinal Angelo Mai made an extraordinary discovery in the Ambrosian Library in Milan. He spotted that a book...

| July 15, 2009

Then, Voyager

Voyager (which I mentioned in a previous post) was one of the coolest companies around in the Nineties; I was a devoted...

| July 13, 2009

marginal technology

Via Adam Keiper, my editor here at The New Atlantis, I see this fascinating story about . . . well, several things, but...

| July 1, 2009

and yet more hatred

My friend David Michael of Wunderkammer fame points out a post by Will Leitch that, well, makes my previous post...