The Vespiary Book Binding & Book Conservation

The conservation blogs were all a-flutter over the 2 bibles used in the swearing-in ceremony at the inauguration Tuesday.  Everybody has their own perspective to add.
Kevin Driedger’s Library Preservation
Bibliophile Bullpen
bookn3rd
Book Patrol
Lastly, the Chicago Tribune has a funny anecdote about Biden’s ginormous family bible.

The blogs have been a hoppin’ lately with book and conservation related goodies.  Here are some gems from a few of my favorites.
MAKE magazine recently posted a fun set of links about an art installation called “Breathing Books.” It appears that the Arduino mechanism that powers the breathing action caused a bit of a stir [...]

A website that I spend WAY too much time on is the social blog, Metafilter. There are about 65,000 users who trawl the internet in search of (theoretically) the best of the web. What the best consists of is frequently a topic of dispute, but just yesterday someone posted a collection of Book [...]

The flooding in the Midwest and its effect on the libraries there have had general destruction on my mind. Not too long ago, I read My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk (recommend!) and there was a passage there that I copied down to put my role in the conservation world into perspective. [...]

I just saw this post that a friend of mine shared in my feed reader, and had to pass it along. From the ever-funny, FAIL Blog
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Click the image to see the original post. The text reads:
book rental service? was just thinking. my sister does -alot- of reading, and spends like $1000 a [...]