Welcome to Litsy!

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“Reading is a technology that works. And it works in part by immersing the reader in the text itself. The lack of video / music / pop-up ads / crypto tokens / mini-games aren‘t a problem to be solve. The lack of those thing is the feature. Books are engaging precisely because they lack those things.“

If you're looking for an approachable book on the history of the book and printing technology, then I have a suggestion for you. :)

Update on Jude: we've got him scheduled for another test. He's happy to be home.

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Waiting at the veterinarian's office to take Jude in. He's losing weight fast regardless of how much I feed him. He's already had blood work and an x-ray. Hopefully they'll have some other ideas. I can't imagine being without my lil' man.

Running hither and yon all day, but I'm going to try to squeeze in a bit more reading before making dinner

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My excellent reading companions :)
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About a hundred pages into this one, and this is a good time, for sure. Here's a gem: "Egypt's water-soluble ink informed the belief that a scroll washed clean of its contents would grant its secrets to whoever drank the resultant inky liquid."

I was a expecting a detailed, dry, just the facts kind of book, but there is a surprising bit of humor and excitement!

This book is all about books 😊 From the evolution of their materials (papyrus-> parchment -> paper) to how they are printed (written -> immovable type -> movable type -> lithography) to how they are bound, this book ultimately describes the history and processes that went into constructing “The Book”.

#7covers7days Day 3
@gradcat

For seven days I‘ll post a favorite cover with no explanation.

#7days7covers #Day6

If you love books about books like I do then this book is a must. The feel of the paper alone will make a book-lover giddy. Incredibly well researched this book is divided into four sections discussing the page and how paper was produced, the text from writing to typesetting, illustrations from illuminations to woodcuts and lithographs, to the form and why books are the size and shape they are. Illustrations throughout and labels for book parts ♥️

“We bought books at bookshops and garage sales; we borrowed them temporarily from libraries and permanently from our friends” ...I feel judged

A small but mighty book haul for Xmas 2018. I borrowed the tagged book from the library and decided I needed my own copy to fully appreciate it. Looking forward to the collection of Time Lord verse (Now We Are Six Hundred). The Inconvenient Indian will also be interesting and important.

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My #shelves of books I haven‘t read yet. And I wonder why I can‘t catch up. 🤣#31bookpics

Happy National Read a Book day!

Still driving my parents around. Still waiting in crowded parking lots. Thanks goodness, still got cell phone battery juice, however, a greater joy is on the horizon, because guess what is right around the corner from the bank. (my current on hold location) Target and Costco...Yay! ‘There be books.‘ I‘m going to get one or two. Skrrrt..Detour ahead! Now I can be Uber Daughter all day long.😃

The other part of my Prime Day splurge. I‘ve had this book in my cart for ages and I couldn‘t resist pulling the trigger on it thanks to the $5 off $20 deal they had running. Cannot wait to dig into this book. The attention to detail and design is impeccable, even the inside looks amazing! #bookmail

I have had this book on my Amazon wish list for awhile now. Although my son usually buys me everything on my wish list, he seems to ignore books! He is an avid reader so I do not understand it. I may just have to get this for myself. #BooksAboutBooks #readingresolutions @Jess7

Princess Bride reference! 😆

Most often, our library hold slips are wrapped around the spine of the book. Sometimes they will be wrapped around the page edge side, but they usually extend over the covers and the pages. Today was the first time I'd seen the hold slip wrapped around only the pages! Maybe the librarians didn't want to wreck the cover or spine -- sometimes they rip if the hold slip is too sticky. 🤔

This is totally me and my TBR shelves are visible proof of this. I keep trying to control my buying, but unsuccessful 99% of the time. Can you imagine if I didn't use the library??? 😬😬😬

Total 10
5 audio - 2 nonfiction 3 fiction
1 graphic novel
1 non fiction
1 poetry
2 fiction
—\u000—\u000-
3 Female authors - 2 WoC
7 Male authors - 1 Poc

This book appealed to my history nerd and my book nerd. A dense well written and well researched book on the history of the book. This covers from papyrus to modern day book making, including details of the making of a hardcover edition of The Book. Really interesting and worth a read.

Could have gone the rest of my life not knowing there was a term for this.

I‘m being a sh*t mom tonight. I‘m reading a physical book and have my headphones in because I hate people-ing. Not #audiomomming *note: the sh*t mom is a joke

@Josie
1. Around 10. Mostly manga or graphic novels.
2. Short, but I want to become better at reading long books.
3. I usually look to manga or children's books. Or I read magazines.
4. 137/144
5. Sci-fi
6. Traditional? Nothing that you attach to the page (except those cool triangle origami ones.)
7. Probably more than 500
8. I'm weak willed and can't stick to a book diet 😂 I suspect I'm a poor reader.

Asking the tough historical questions

Just over one hundred pages to go and I've lost all interest in reading. Not just this book, but any book.

Got to love Kakfa.

"Gutenberg was not the father of printing so much as its midwife."

Isabella hates bookmarks. She believes you should never stop reading. After this picture she promptly ran away with my bookmark.

Egads! I've been tagged! I've been challenged by the always enjoyable @ssravp to make a #FiveStarPredictions post!

Here are some TBR's I think I'll rate 5 stars: Empire Falls; 1Q84; The Book; All the King's Men; The Doubter's Alamanc; Gödel, Escher, Bach.

I'll #PairWith JW Blue for these anticipated selections. ???

I tag @CouronneDhiver , @Caffienequeen , @JenP , @annahenke , @kylienoele , @Jamesfahyauthor to see what you all have in mind.

Ever notice weird/random things in books after you've been reading them for a bit? I just noticed that the periods in this book are little crosses/plus signs. Sorry the picture isn't great.

"By examining how paper from differing batches is distributed throughout the surviving printed Bibles, and by tracking idiosyncrasies of spelling, spacing, and other typographical quirks, experts have concluded that four workers (later six) were engaged in assembling pages, or "composing" them, at once."
Huh, so what does this say about my life in 2017?

I'm not a biblical scholar or anything, but it's NOT RevelationS it's Revelation and it drives me nuts when an S is added to it.

This paragraph gave me the warm "you get me" fuzzies.

Up next on #TBRbingo or #tbr2017 .... The Book. A book about the book. It's super booknerd reading! 🤓 (apple needs a super-person emoji or at least a cape).
I point out the dingbat because it makes me giggle, my grandma calls people dingbats.

I will join in on the fun! ?

1. 10-20 hours
2. Print books
3. Mystery and Horror
4. Romance and Westerns
5. Biggest pet peeve is having people talk to me when I'm reading or making a lot of noise. ??
6. I love that I can "travel" to other worlds and experience things that would be way out of my own comfort zone.
7. I buy way more books than I'll ever be able to read.

#LitsyQuestions

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Asylum as home for books. https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/05/18/the-library-of-books-and-bombs/

I'm finally getting this again. Yah! #bookmail

A pretty solid read, though I didn't love it. I'm the kind of girl who went to an exhibition of incunabula while on her honeymoon so it was interesting (and effin' beautiful) but I maybe didn't need a full 75 pages on the history of papyrus ➡ parchment ➡ paper?

Also, my phone suggests 'incunabula' and that makes me feel warm fuzzy things.

How did I not know that the Frankfurt Book Fair has been around this long!?

Meanwhile, why did I get this from the library instead of just buying it!? It's so pretty, I want to get it drunk and take it to bed with me.

#CoolSpines #RiotGrams
I display three favorite Alcott titles wrapped in colored twine on the "classics" shelf of my fiction bookcase and Angelou's first installment of her autobiography: "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" lying flat in my non-fiction case with her other installments stacked vertically on top. The Angelou is from the Folio Society. #FolioSociety #Classics #Alcott #Angelou #MayaAngelou

A couple #bookmarks and postcards that I use as bookmarks. #riotgrams sulamith wulfing

My special space for books about books, reading, language, and literature.

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Reading a book about the history of bookmaking. I'm very nerdy.