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Here's some things I've enjoyed lately. They've been hanging around my news-reader while I considered creating longer posts around them, but offer them instead as a fairly straightforward list of recommended reading:The Lilly Library at the University of Indiana has an excellent online exhibition curated from their collection on miniature books. Great images, great history of the format.Bookn3rd put together a wonderful post on Books of Hours complete with a strong selection of resources from around the web.MUST READ: Chris Lowenstein of Book Hunter's Holiday muses on the state of the "bookstore community" in these days of fewer open shops...
Wanderlust: Maps of Great Journeys
Good Magazine has created a super-cool interactive map of history's greatest journeys. Sure there's Lewis and Clark and De Soto. But there's also Kerouac's ON THE ROAD, Ken Kesey's ELECTRIC KOOL AID ACID TEST trip, and even the Voyage of the Pequod. (Via).
Amazon and Bibliofind: A History
Amazon's acquisition of ABE continues to be a big topic of conversation among online booksellers. Dealers are still attempting to read the tea leaves and divine Amazon's ultimate intentions for ABE and its subsidiaries (Library Thing, Bookfinder, etc.). On the Bibliophile List, discussion of late has turned to the fates of previous Amazon acquisitions, specifically Bibliofind (an early competitor to ABE), and what these might tell us about Amazon's plans. During this recent back-and-forth, Marion Meyer of Marion Meyer Rare Book in East Hampton NY offered the following history of Amazon's buyout of Bibliofind - both in order to correct...
10 Reasons Not To Write Off Reading From A Screen
Michael Bhaskar over at The Digitalist has this level-headed post on the reasons why e-based reading is here to stay and why even bibliophiles don't need to freak-out about it:No one is saying that we will all run off any read all our books off a screen. Books are here to stay. Reading from one type of screen or another is not about to replace books, rather it is an addition to the varied climate to literature that already exists, a creative challenge, a commercial opportunity and new way for readers to enjoy texts.