‼️Littens who print as a part of their bookish activities‼️ Please send me your printer recommendations. I currently have an Epson XP 4105 that is making me batty. I‘ve had it for 4 or 5 years and am about ready to set it on fire 😂 I‘m hoping Santa might send me a new one this year. 👉👈I mostly use it for my BookSpin bingo tiles. 🖨️ 🔥
bailedToo much if a history less/documentary for me.
@SilversReviews
I prefer paper books, but with my painful hands I can't really hold them for long anymore. I have a Kobo Libra Color (which is amazing!!!!) and a Kindle. (a cheap one, for DRM crippled academic books).
Always reading around...
Hopefully I can write two reviews for the #litsylove newsletter soon but I'm absolutely exhausted so who knows!
Recent acquisitions:
📖 Caxton: The Description of Britain: A Modern Rendering by Marie Collins
📖 Imeall am Domhain: Walking at the Edge of the World by T.P. O'Conchúir and Aimee Ericson
#fREADom #UniteAgainstBookBans
The great February book haul: because I just had to and the cover‘s quite nice.
Started reading/studying another book today, for an exam.
I had started it ages ago, then abandoned it, so here I am again.
This is a book about the "birth" of the Book
#booksaboutbooks #nonfiction
pickLots of fascinating detail about how the First Folio made it into print. But also lots that isn't (can't?) be known.
I'll be first into the time travelling machine to check out the bookstalls in St Paul's courtyard c.1623 please...
The author describes this copy of the folio (held by Glasgow University) where a reader has annotated the actors that they "know".
Image from Glasgow University website
https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/library/files/special/exhibns/month/july2001.htm...
Even if John Heminges and Henry Condell had consciously worked towards providing posterity with plays which, in their estimation, reflected Shakespeare's 'original' - a word used more than once in the First Folio's pitching - intentions, the process of deciding between existing copies of some of the plays would have meant making tough decisions. Do they stick with Shakespeare's authorial papers for a given play...?
Image from BBC news, 2020.
