- Kari Kraus has an important piece in the NYTimes today, "When Data Disappears."
- Another must-read from this week is Sarah Werner's post "the serendipity of the unexpected, or, a copy is not an edition."
- I've added a sidebar link to 8vo, Brook Palmieri's excellent biblio-blog. Add this one to your rotation. Her most recent post, on a really delightful provenance discovery, builds on Sarah's (just linked to above).
- In the Boston Globe, a look at the new 18th-century-style print shop recently opened in the North End.
- From the Guardian this week, a look at a new Dickens project, Dickens Journals Online. The aim is to produce an online, open-access edition of Household Worlds and All the Year Round, and they're looking for volunteers!
- There's a new digital library of books published in Mexico before 1601, Primeros Libros.
- A fascinating long piece by Simon Kuper on the 1911 theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre.
- Somebody on Twitter (sorry, I've forgotten now just who) posted a link to audio of Jorge Luis Borges' 1967-1968 Norton Lectures at Harvard.
- Bloomsbury Auctions has been acquired by Fine Art Auction Group.
- In the NYTimes, Eve Kahn writes about the difficulties of scrapbook preservation.
- Rick Anderson has a fascinating post at the scholarly kitchen on the "good, the bad, and the sexy" of the Espresso Book Machine.
Reviews
- David Pearson's Books as History; review by Rebecca Rego Barry in Fine Books Notes.
- Michael Sims' The Story of Charlotte's Web; review by Lee Randall in the Scotsman.
- Melanie Benjamin's The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb; review by Diana White in the Boston Globe.
- Brook Wilensky-Landford's Paradise Lust; review by Andrea Wulf in the NYTimes.
- Other People's Books; review by Pradeep Sebastian in The Hindu.
