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Apr. 1st, 2011 02:14 pmBooks! Everywhere! Sometimes I think being a librarian is only going to enable my bibliomania. I haven't done a post of links in a while, so here's a dose of bookorama. All links can also be found at my delicious account.
Deciphering Old Texts, One Woozy, Curvy Word at a Time - "Captchas ensure that robots do not hack secure Web sites. What Web readers do not know, however, is that they have also been enlisted in a project to transform an old book, magazine, newspaper or pamphlet into an accurate, searchable and easily sortable computer text file."
Rare Book Room - High-quality scans of rare books. My favorite is Poissons, ecrevisses et crabes, de diverses couleurs et figures
extraordinaires and its Yellow Submarine-esque illustrations.
Lafcadio Hearn begs "Don't disgust me, please --" - For Christmas, one of Pete's friends got him a second printing of Hearn's Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation, since we had seen Kwaidan and loved it; since then, I've been using that copy of the book in my cataloging projects. Anyway, this is a letter from Hearn to a woman who apparently had sent him a picture of her in a low-cut dress. "You are a fine woman in regard to health and strength; you are not a handsome or even a tolerably good looking woman physically, and your picture is simply horrible, horrible, horrible."
16th-Century Friend Books as Social Networking, or, At Least, Status-Gathering - People don't change much, not really. Here are some example of autograph/message books from the 16th century. I wish I could read German!
Legacy Libraries at LibraryThing - A project to add the libraries of famous people to LibraryThing. You can learn so much about a person by viewing their book collections. Yeah, I'm one of those types that judges you based on what you're reading. Anyway, a fascinating look into a personal side of some of history's most interesting characters. And who knew that Jeff Buckley was so into the beat movement?
28 Vintage Book Club Mailers - Oh man. I loved these things. I'd mark the ones I wanted (basically all of them) and then haggle with my mother as to which one or two she'd actually let me get.
Confessions of a Book Hoarder - I can relate. "The word hoard means “treasure” and evolves from “a thing hidden.” I have six bookcases in my office. That should be enough, but I have eight auxiliary stashes. These are in my night table, and in my husband’s night table, hidden in my children’s rooms, in my husband’s office, under the coffee table, in the kitchen, and behind a door in the living room" - Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer. Right now, we're keeping a stash of books in the freezer. Don't ask.
Caring for a Book Collection - Advice for protecting and preserving our precious babies from Nancy Bass Wyden, co-owner of the Strand Bookstore.
Find the Future at The New York Public Library - So, so cool. Win a chance to spend all night in the NYPL, uncovering its secrets.
book per diem - One used book a day for sale. Some lovely choices, like The Hearthstone and The Swarm.
Deciphering Old Texts, One Woozy, Curvy Word at a Time - "Captchas ensure that robots do not hack secure Web sites. What Web readers do not know, however, is that they have also been enlisted in a project to transform an old book, magazine, newspaper or pamphlet into an accurate, searchable and easily sortable computer text file."
Rare Book Room - High-quality scans of rare books. My favorite is Poissons, ecrevisses et crabes, de diverses couleurs et figures
extraordinaires and its Yellow Submarine-esque illustrations.
Lafcadio Hearn begs "Don't disgust me, please --" - For Christmas, one of Pete's friends got him a second printing of Hearn's Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation, since we had seen Kwaidan and loved it; since then, I've been using that copy of the book in my cataloging projects. Anyway, this is a letter from Hearn to a woman who apparently had sent him a picture of her in a low-cut dress. "You are a fine woman in regard to health and strength; you are not a handsome or even a tolerably good looking woman physically, and your picture is simply horrible, horrible, horrible."
16th-Century Friend Books as Social Networking, or, At Least, Status-Gathering - People don't change much, not really. Here are some example of autograph/message books from the 16th century. I wish I could read German!
Legacy Libraries at LibraryThing - A project to add the libraries of famous people to LibraryThing. You can learn so much about a person by viewing their book collections. Yeah, I'm one of those types that judges you based on what you're reading. Anyway, a fascinating look into a personal side of some of history's most interesting characters. And who knew that Jeff Buckley was so into the beat movement?
28 Vintage Book Club Mailers - Oh man. I loved these things. I'd mark the ones I wanted (basically all of them) and then haggle with my mother as to which one or two she'd actually let me get.
Confessions of a Book Hoarder - I can relate. "The word hoard means “treasure” and evolves from “a thing hidden.” I have six bookcases in my office. That should be enough, but I have eight auxiliary stashes. These are in my night table, and in my husband’s night table, hidden in my children’s rooms, in my husband’s office, under the coffee table, in the kitchen, and behind a door in the living room" - Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer. Right now, we're keeping a stash of books in the freezer. Don't ask.
Caring for a Book Collection - Advice for protecting and preserving our precious babies from Nancy Bass Wyden, co-owner of the Strand Bookstore.
Find the Future at The New York Public Library - So, so cool. Win a chance to spend all night in the NYPL, uncovering its secrets.
book per diem - One used book a day for sale. Some lovely choices, like The Hearthstone and The Swarm.
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