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Link The love of the high-end (book) heist
Books have long been the object of desire, a desire that in intensity (among the susceptible) is stronger than for sex. Bibliomania, the obsession to possess books, was first recognised…

August 13 2010, 4:30am | Comments
Link Small is Beautiful: a discussion with AAAARG architect…
One of my favorite websites is the semi-obscure digital library known as AAAARG (don’t even try googling. You just get pirate-themed sites). The site is a sundry collection of critical…

June 1 2010, 2:08pm | Comments
Link Sorted Books project
The Sorted Books project began in 1993 years ago and is ongoing. The project has taken place in many different places over the years, ranging form private homes to specialized…

April 29 2010, 3:20pm | Comments
Link Inside the Mundaneum
Otlet was the first to imagine all the world’s knowledge as one vast “web,” connected by “links” and accessed remotely through desktop screens, and because of this he can be…

April 22 2010, 2:39am | Comments
Link For The Love Of Culture
In early 2002, the filmmaker Grace Guggenheim--the daughter of the late Charles Guggenheim, one of America’s greatest documentarians, and the sister of the filmmaker Davis Guggenheim, who made An Inconvenient…

January 27 2010, 3:17pm | Comments
Wikipedia reCAPTCHA reCAPTCHA is a system originally developed at Carnegie Mellon University that uses CAPTCHA to help digitize the text of books while protecting websites from bots attempting to access…

November 23 2009, 8:52am | Comments
Link The Future of Reading
The future of reading is very much in doubt. In this century, reading could soar to new heights or crash and burn. Some educators and librarians fear that sustained reading…

November 3 2009, 10:30am | Comments
Link The Library in the New Age
Information is exploding so furiously around us and information technology is changing at such bewildering speed that we face a fundamental problem: How to orient ourselves in the new landscape?…

October 31 2009, 5:19am | Comments
Link Google's Book Search: A Disaster for Scholars
Whether the Google books settlement passes muster with the U.S. District Court and the Justice Department, Google's book search is clearly on track to becoming the world's largest digital library.…

September 17 2009, 2:24am | Comments
Link Jorge Luis Borges: The Mirror Man
Directed by Philippe Molins - Although honors came late in life to Jorge Luis Borges, his unique worldview had begun to emerge even as a child. This program examines the…

August 6 2009, 1:23pm | Comments
Writing for Spacecollective The Total Library Project
Books that redefine reality - or - How to redefine the book...

January 29 2009, 3:58am | Comments

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