Her name is Mary and she has been selling books for over 30 years. She is known as the bookseller who cannot read!She runs a bookshop in Chennai, the capital city of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The bookshop does not have an address.Even though she "doesn’t know how to read, she digs out all the books her customers need – from 5th standard texts to engineering guides, law to Chartered Accountancy, test banks to crack IIT’s entrance exam, the GMAT and GRE to comics and classics."And like many of old time booksellers she can be a little grumpy:I am telling...
Books for Posing
Prior to the emergence and popularity of image libraries and stock photo agencies, The Fairburn System of Visual References was considered the holy grail of visual reference material for artists of the day. Produced in 3 volume sets of human figures, faces and heads, figures and hands, they were an indispensible resource for the art director and commercial artist who relied on the photo references to hand render people—usually with Magic Markers—for conceptual storyboards and ad campaigns. Just like rubber cement and presstype, the Fairburn System was considered an essential tool for "pitching" clients throughout the 1970s and 80s, and most every...
Used books deemed unsanitary by the Turkish government
Image via LOCResponding to complaints by parents the Turkish government has pulled all used books from their Free Class Books Project. From Education Minister Nimet Çubukçu:The course books distributed within the scope of the Free Class Books Project cannot be used, as the schools lack the infrastructure to control and protect the books. As the parents do not find the used books hygienic, giving a group of students new books and others used books does not serve our educational needsThis is one wacky story and I have to wonder if something got lost in the translation. If indeed used books are unsanitary and need to...