"The Future of Books" by Kyle BeanThanks to if:book for the lead
SaveScriveCookieMaker
Here is a little Friday fun compliments of Lynn Wienck of The Chisholm Trail Bookstore*****************************************************************************If newspapers are for breakfast, books for lunch, and cereal boxes for snacks, then this new do-it-yourself-innovation is a tasteful edition to kitchen appliances: fulfilling, appetizing, and digestible in multiple meals.SaveScriveCookieMaker, similar in size and shape to the infamous SaveScriveWaffleIron, comes with removable aluminum trays for easy cleaning. It bakes a single cookie while simultaneously blind stamping six lines of text. Nontoxic, moveable type, SaveScriveAlphabet, sold separately, is available for creations of original, awkward, and unappreciated works. The bite-sized, but inedible letters, slide into a recessed...
The Rory Macbeth Version of the Bible
"Bible", 2007, printed document, edition of 300, 21 x 30 x 0.5cmWelcome to Rory Macbeth's new word order. Macbeth has developed software that reorganized the complete text of the bible into alphabetical order and then printed it in an edition of 300.Did you know that there are 313 exclamation marks, 56 uses of the word'slaughters' and 86 instances of the word 'ass'?Also of note is Macbeth's 2006 rendering of the text of Sit Thomas Moore's Utopia on the outside of a building in Norwich, UK.
Technology, technology, technology
Here's a piece I wrote that appears in the latest issue of Amphora the journal of the Alcuin Society. It was written back in early January and though things continue to change at a rapid pace in the book world I thought it still worth sharing.************Technology, technology, technologyIf your time to you Is worth savin’Then you better start swimmin'Or you’ll sink like a stoneFor the times they are a-changin’-Bob Dylan Technology, technology, technology has not exactly been the battle cry of the bookselling trade over the years but technology has now become an inescapable influence. The seismic changes bought about...
A New Dawn at the Library of Congress
Tomorrow for the first time in 18 years the bronze doors leading to the Great Hall of the Thomas Jefferson Building will open to the public and the Library of Congress Experience will begin.The LOC Experience is the marriage of some of the treasures of the world's largest library with the latest interactive technology. These new technologies "will make the Library of Congress and its collections more dynamic and accessible than ever."The "new exhibitions enhanced by interactive technology will offer a chance to experience rare and unique items, such as the rough draft of the Declaration of Independence, the Gutenberg...