Book as cigarette lighter The word "Blook" first surfaced as a word in 2001 when Jeff Jarvis coined it to represent a printed book derived from a blog. In 2006 the word was short-listed for inclusion in the Oxford English Dictionary and was a runner-up for Word of the Year. Now, thanks to Mindell Dubansky, it has a new meaning: objects made in the emulation of books, either by hand or commercial manufacture. Dubansky, who is head of the Sherman Fairchild Center for Book Conservation at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, is waving the BLOOK flag on a new blog devoted to these bookish gems....
