Book restoration in the Adirondacks
Bridget sent a link to a sweet article from Adirondack Life about Jack Fitterer, a book restorer and binder in upstate New York: Page Turners: The art and craft of bookbinding in Indian Lake. The...
View ArticleHautes couvertures
Apparently Paris was a hotbed of elegant bookbinding, back in the 1920s: All from Grabink, via Sarah Koz on Quipsologies.
View ArticleThe Motherlode of Vintage Bookbinding History
Earlier this week, Miss Sheila Ryan, archivist extraordinaire, drew my attention to the 2008 winner of the award for Best Online Archival Exhibition, as reported by Kate Theimer at ArchivesNext.com:...
View ArticleMaking trees’ deaths worthwhile, since 1972
I’m trying to close some browser tabs that I’ve been carrying along for at least two months, and I just can’t click the little x on this one without mentioning it. Scott K. Kellar, bookbinder and...
View ArticleBookuleles
I love to make books and I love to play the ukulele. Can I put these two loves together? Can I make a book out of a uke? Holy moly. From The Ukulele Books of Peter and Donna Thomas, via Ukulele Hero,...
View Articlefrom the Guardian
They’ve been doing a lot of nifty slide shows at the Guardian. Here are four recent ones: British Library launches online newspaper archive As you may have guessed, I love this kind of stuff....
View ArticleTo be fond of ; to like ; to have good will toward ; to delight in, with...
Love. Chronicle Books had only a dummy of the trade edition at BEA, but the book is out now. (Buy it through Indiebound.) If I weren’t determined to win it myself, I would tell you that Chronicle will...
View ArticleCalifornia, here I come!
Now I know what I’ll be doing next time I’m in SF: Tim James of Taurus Bookbindery has opened the American Bookbinders Museum. The Chronicle reports. In the museum sits an 800-pound Imperial arming...
View Article“books do certain things well and digital technologies do other things well”
There’s a fab article hidden behind the Chronicle of Higher Education paywall: Some years ago, Terry Belanger found a striking way to reveal the reverence that many citizens of the digital age...
View ArticleOne hour and eleven minutes of me trying not to swear
The awesome Laura Dawson invited me to do a webinar on the basics of book design, as part of a series for Bowker’s SelfPublishedAuthor.com. Our kindly hosts/co-presenters at Data Conversion Laboratory...
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