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Bookhunting in Boston – Week 1
Bookhunting in Boston! (well, technically Boston and Cambridge) Week 1 I visited Boston for two weeks. As a bibliophile I was looking forward to the bookstores that the town has. As I am always on a budget, the aim was … Continue reading
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Tagged books, boston, cambridge, commonwealth books, harvard book store, honor system, mit press, mit press logo, muriel cooper, raven used books, store, used books
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Antilibrary of Umberto Eco
The writer Umberto Eco belongs to that small class of scholars who are encyclopedic, insightful, and nondull. He is the owner of a large personal library (containing thirty thousand books), and separates visitors into two categories: those who react with … Continue reading
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Tagged antilibrary, bibliophile, books, taleb, tsundoku, umberto eco
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The Textbook Liberation Project
“We aim for maximum financial impact against the publishing industry and maximum political impact among the University administration and faculty. This will force the complicit parties to declare which side they want to stand on,” via TorrentFreak.
Posted in books, computers, control, ebooks, technology
Tagged books, corruption, DRM, textbooks, university
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Undownloading
So, it seems that ebook users need to add a new word to their vocabulary: “undownloading” — what happens when you leave the authorized zone in which you may read the ebooks you paid for, and cross into the digital … Continue reading
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Tagged books, DRM, ebooks, ideas
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Can Stars Be Seen in Daylight?
The constellations that we saw at night half a year ago are now overhead in the daytime. Six months later they will again adorn the night sky. The sunlit atmosphere of the Earth screens them from the eye because the … Continue reading
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Tagged astronomy, books, planets, progress publishers, science popularization, sky, stars, telescopes, yakov perelman
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