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 and more online booksellers.
I love these bookends.
NEW BOOK: COLLECTIONS OF NOTHING by William Davis King. Ruminations on the nature and drive to collect. Looks good.
Judging a bookstore by its Stanley Elkin.
Similar to the Book of Hours post mentioned above, Philobiblos on Fortsas, the best biblio-hoax ever.
Why An Exciting Book Is Just As Thrilling As A Hair-raising Movie.
Modernist Book Design in Germany and Switzerland 1925–1965.
Sherlock Holmes lives here.
FLICKR: The Pulp Fiction Pool. Over 2000 covers.
Library fines? Careful you don’t get arrested.
Latin American Design from Taschen books is online (all 544 pages!). Cool interface.
YIKES: Literary Voyeurism.
You may be helping to digitize books and not even know it.
Here’s a new book of cats. Here’s an old one. Meow.