I ran across this video on Vimeo (a YouTube alternative) — it’s sort of a Mr. Rogers-like book at a book factory, and how they are assembled, from author to distributor. As a typophile and a librophile, this is absolutely fascinating to me. I REALLY WANT a typesetting machine, now. (I’m sure Katie would have [...]

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I buy used books a lot, and I’m usually a fussy buyer, trying to find copies that are in as pristine a condition as possible. I may have to rethink that policy, though, since I found out it can also be fun to browse through the annotations and scribblings left by previous owners. This weekend [...]

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