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On Books and Bookcases
“But I am apt to use my books at any time,” I explain to the salesman. “I never can tell when it is coming on me. And when I want a book I want it quickly. I don’t want to … Continue reading
Review of His Master’s Voice by Stanislaw Lem
The book is an autobiographical tale by one of the mathematician-scientist who looks at a mysterious signal from the cosmos. The title is from the title given to the top secret project which tries to decipher this signal. The … Continue reading
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Tagged books, cosmology, first contact, neutrino, physics, review, science fiction, stanislaw lem
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Undead Texts
These are the Undead Texts. Their ambition and success inevitably made these works targets of specialist rebuttals. There is probably not a single claim they make that subsequent scholarship has not queried, criticized, or refuted. Yet these texts refuse to … Continue reading
Just for fun or how to invite readers to immerse in your book
These problems are for fun. I never meant them to be taken too seriously. Some you will find easy enough to answer. Others are enormously difficult, and grown men and women make their livings trying to answer them. But even … Continue reading
The Forbidden Library
What do you do when you find something offensive? Whether it be a book, a film or any other art form? You ask for a ban. You not only ban the book, perhaps want to ban the creator of the … Continue reading
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Tagged ban, banned works, books, offended, technology, writers, writing
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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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