The afterlife of media
I was playing with Rock Band at home the other day – well, moving my fingers
anyway. I was struck by
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Books
Notes about books, movies and reading.
307 postsQOTD: Reading again
Steven Johnson, author of Everything bad is good for you: how today’s popular
culture is making you smarter
[https:
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QOTD: a lifted study-storehouse
I mentioned [https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/001534.html] the other day
that the Times had nominated Philip Larkin,
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Find the gap
On page 3 of Helen Vendler’s [https://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n79-95151]
Our secret discipline: Yeats and lyric form
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Librarian tops poll
OK, I am cheating a little. The Times has produced a list of the greatest
British writers
[https://entertainment.timesonline.
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The less common reader
The condition of reading is in the news. At the same time, Alan Bennett's fictional discussion of the Queen's developing literary taste, The Uncommon Reader, has been published. But are we reading The Uncommon Reader in the right way?
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What the reader intends ...
From the ever-suggestive William Gibson ..
> Did Borges ever imagine a library in which we could know which volumes users
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Google Book Search and document understanding
Google Book Search: Document Understanding on a Massive Scale [PDF
[https://www.icdar2007.org/ICDAR2007_KeyNote_LVincent.pdf]] is a
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Reading ... or not?
Is listening to an audiobook ‘reading’?
I remember asking this question at a conference last year and getting some
diversity
John Wilkin's blog
It is always worth hearing what John Wilkin has to say so I was interested to
see that he has
Library History again
A long time ago I wrote ….
> If you have $495
[https://www.amazon.com/Cambridge-History-Libraries-Britain-Ireland/dp/0521858089/ref=ed_
