Entries Tagged as 'books'

Sunday, January 2nd, 2011

BookLiberator Lets You Make E-Books Cheaply (And Is Definitely Not Intended For Copyright Violation!) – The Firewall – the world of security – Forbes

via blogs.forbes.com “Remember the sense of liberation that came from digitizing your CDs and then chucking a decade or two’s accumulation of archaic plastic? James Vasile and Ian Sullivan want to give you that gratification again–this time from rendering into bits your hundreds of pounds of dead trees. Their invention, on display over the weekend [...]

Sunday, June 13th, 2010

Swift, canny book scanner bodes publishing mischief a-plenty

via wired.com Posted via web from crasch’s posterous

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

The Project Gutenberg eBook of Handwork in Wood, by William Noyes

via gutenberg.org Posted via web from crasch’s posterous

Thursday, August 6th, 2009

The New Book Banning

The New Book Banning It’s hard to believe, but true: under a law Congress passed last year aimed at regulating hazards in children’s products, the federal government has now advised that children’s books published before 1985 should not be considered safe and may in many cases be unlawful to sell or distribute. Merchants, thrift stores, [...]

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

Best books on design/aesthetics?

What books on design or aesthetics do y’all like? The one that comes immediately to mind for me is Edward Tufte’s Visual Display of Quantitative Information. I also liked Design of Everyday Things. What else is good? What’s the graphic designer’s bible? Specialist titles (for example, design of typography) are also welcome.

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

The New Book Banning

The New Book Burning by Walter Olson, City Journal 12 February 2009: It’s hard to believe, but true: under a law Congress passed last year aimed at regulating hazards in children’s products, the federal government has now advised that children’s books published before 1985 should not be considered safe and may in many cases be [...]

Thursday, August 2nd, 2007

Tank Books

These cigarette pack books are really cool: Via ernunnos

Friday, April 27th, 2007

My daemon