Worried about reading O. J.'s If I Did It in public? Worried about selling it in public?Worry no more, with Book-Frocks you can shamelessly read or sell whatever you want wherever you want."The covers fit any standard size trade-paper book, and even the extra tall/large ones. For you poetry lovers, the button closure keeps skinny ones from slippin about. Perfect to take with you on the bus, or to your favorite cafe, or to disguise the fact that you're reading."This might be just what the doctor ordered for Barnes and Noble. They already stuck their foot in their mouths by...
Name This Place
1 - Long before the building opens, a crowd begins to gather.2 - As the doors swing open, he mutters: "This is my sanctuary."3 - People frequently use the... restrooms to bathe (stripping down and using wads of wet toilet paper) or to get their latest drug fix.4- Occasionally, the bathroom ceiling is speckled with the blood of a careless heroin user who struck a vein.Any ideas?If you said the Multnomah Public Library in Portland you are correct.Arthur Gregg Sulzberger's piece in the Oregonian Library a refuge for homeless is the latest contribution to the budding genre "Social Services and...
Digitize Your Own Books: How to Build Your Own Automated Scanner
Who needs Google. Thanks to Muranushi Takayuki you too can make your own automated scanner. This is way over my head technically but you got to love the ingenuity.Thanks to .ike for the lead. His new blog Digitizing Books and Media will be a place where he shares his process of finding a way to digitize his book collection.
The Google Quandary: Book Search or Text Search?
Apart from the text does Google Book Search really have anything to do with the life of a book?I am not so sure.As Paul Duguid points out in his illuminating piece Inheritence and loss? A brief survey of Google Books:"Even with some of the best search and scanning technology in the world behind you, it is unwise to ignore the bookish character of books."Using Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy as his book of choice Duguid exposes some major quality control issues inherent in Google's digitization process. From missing pages to poorly scanned pages to the complete absence of vital data (like...
The Life Tree
You Are Here40" x 60"2 color screen printGreat typographical poster that "was originally meant to be a tongue-in-cheek, semi autobiographical but mainly fictional guide to graphic design for students. It soon spiralled (sic) out of control and became a bittersweet journey through the many different lives of a graphic designer."Created by the design firm johnson banksHere's a close-up of the top left section: Thanks to Lu Terceiro for the lead