The Vespiary Book Binding & Book Conservation

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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book rental service? was just thinking. my sister does -alot- of reading, and spends like $1000 a […]