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Shakespeare goes digital (X-post)

feiruz_al-bnefsagia — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:59:48 GMT

Why x-posted? It's Shake-freakin-speare!!!

From Reuters via Yahoo news: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080326/tc_nm/britain_shakespeare_digital_dc

A U.S. and British library plan to reproduce online all 75 editions of William Shakespeare's plays printed in the quarto format before the year 1641.

The Bodleian Library in Oxford and Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC have joined forces to download their collections, building on the work of the British Library which digitized its collection of quarto editions in 2004.

In the absence of surviving manuscripts, the quartos -- Shakespeare's earliest printed editions -- offer the closest known evidence of what Shakespeare might actually have written, and what appeared on the early modern English stage.

The project is designed to make all of the quartos, many of which are only accessible to scholars, available to the wider public.

The process of downloading the quartos will begin next month and take a year to complete.

Online visitors will be able to compare images side-by-side, lay one facsimile on top of the other, search plays and mark and tag the texts.

As well as highlighting more minor differences between copies of the same quarto, the digital database will also make it easier to study the often wide discrepancies between quartos, including some of Shakespeare's most famous lines.

"There will be countless new ways for scholars, teachers, and students to examine the quarto texts, particularly of 'Hamlet'," said Folger director Gail Kern Paster.

"You find out all sorts of things -- about how the copies went through the press, and also about the printing process," she added.

Shakespeare wrote at least 37 plays and collaborated on several more between about 1590 and 1613. He died in 1616.

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RIP Gary Gygax, Co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons (X-posted)

feiruz_al-bnefsagia — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 22:42:12 GMT

If it weren't for the creative guys at Tactical Studies Rules (TSR) I doubt we'd have the extensive fantasy- and mythology-based literature and games which are so popular and financially successful today.

Rest well, Gary.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Gygax

Feiruz, a second-generation "gamer"

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children's books

Cristalbeena — Sat, 26 Feb 2005 23:41:18 GMT

Trying to start a "resource" list of GREAT children's books.
Any recommendations?

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Study of Marginalia

iris — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 11:39:03 GMT

Is it just me or has there been an increase in people wanting to study marginalia lately? I didn't get many questions about it much before but for the past two years there has been a steady flow of people documenting readers comments.

Do you get used books if they have comments in them? Or do you like clean copies? I've found it both fascinating and infuriating. When i was a student i'd go so far as to argue with the previous owner of a particular book.

Now I think i'd have a heart-attack if I saw someone wander toward my books with a pen.

Wishing I could read Latin,
iris

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BEST bookstore

Austin — Tue, 04 Nov 2003 17:18:39 GMT

What is the the BEST bookstore you know?

Not a "pretty good" bookstore; but the best in your own experience. And since we're talking superlatives, just one.

The best bookstore I know is Wilshire Books in Santa Monica, California <http://sprezzatura.editthispage.com/wilshirebooks>.

Wilshire Books is a used bookstore. The room is small, about 30 feet square (200 meters square). The stock is rotates rapidly. Since the store buys and sells review copies, it is possible to purchase books before they have been published.

It is a used book shop, not a rare book shop: the books are meant for reading, not collecting. The prices are fair, not overpriced.

What makes it great is the selection. Not broad, but focussed, and no junk.

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In need of comfort from a stranger

Tristan — Tue, 11 Jan 2005 00:13:36 GMT

Dearest,

Ian Macewan will have a new novel in March.

The Cement Garden, read on plane trip last week, left with deep need for atonement.

I enjoy his sensual punishment

Tristan Isolt

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Interpreter of Maladies

jessica — Fri, 14 Nov 2003 20:09:44 GMT

Has anyone read "Interpreter of Maladies"? It's next on my reading list...

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Banned Book Week & Stuff

jessica — Thu, 12 Aug 2004 00:45:06 GMT

It looks as though Kansas is getting set to celebrate "Banned Book Week" in style. They are pulling CD's out of public libraries:

http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Music/08/06/library.cdsettlement.ap/index.html

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Hi I'm new here.

bettyx1138 — Tue, 16 Dec 2003 02:12:04 GMT

Hi - I just joined your little tribe here. I read a lot. (Proud to say I do not own a TV.)

Now reading 'Anna Karenina' now. And a book called "Orality and Literacy' by Walter Ong.

Cheers! ./bc

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L.A. - Midnight Special Bookstore

jessica — Fri, 07 May 2004 20:03:41 GMT

Last year, well over 1000 of you gave us so much money, so much of your time and so much heart, to make sure we could reopen after 8 months "in storage." Unfortunately, the delay was too great and our debts grew with the delays. Only local outlets of major chains can afford the losses that come with opening stores; even though our sales were steadily growing, it was not fast enough to keep us going until we could sustain
ourselves.

Therefore, it is with so much sadness and even much anger, that we announce we are closing the Midnight Special Bookstore. We know how much you have given to us; we want you to know how hard we tried and how long we worked to keep our doors open. We also want you to know how sincerely we will miss your comments, complaints, support, events, books, small talk, jokes, ideas; you have been our community... our daily life, for 34 years.

We will close our doors in about 4 or 5 weeks (we'll post the exact date as it comes closer) and our GREAT BIG SALE starts Saturday, May 8. Please come buy us out!! And pick up a copy of our list of independent booksellers in Los Angeles... we would never leave you with nowhere to go! All events for May will proceed as planned, unless the author wishes to cancel. All events after June 2nd are cancelled.

These are amazing times we live in, both at home and all over the world. They are as exciting as they are tragic, because, we in this country who have such great responsibility, have also a great opportunity to open minds and accelerate change; and maybe, even begin to close down an unjust and oppressive system.

Nothing will die when the Midnight Special closes it doors, because all of you and our staff of the last 34 years -- and today... Ruben, Rolando, Erin, Bill, Lorraine, Olin, Daniel, Jason and Jim -- are the life of the Midnight Special, and each one of us is part of a much larger voice that cannot be silenced.

Margie
Midnight Special Bookstore

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Book-binding

Austin — Fri, 16 Jan 2004 17:53:42 GMT

http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/conservation/models/index.htm

Bookbind model collection photographs and descriptions of model books fabricated to show the physical construction of books from early codex bindings to modern designs....

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Your favorites from this past year

jessica — Wed, 07 Jan 2004 15:42:53 GMT

Mine include:

Madam Secretary by Madeleine Albright
Reedeming Nietzche by Giles Frazer
The People Speak by Howard Zinn (advanced copy)
Walking in Scotland (Lonely Planet)
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
A Hermit in Paris by Italo Calvino
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Chabon
The Metaphysical Club by Loius Menand

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Santa Monica: Midnight Special Re-opens

jessica — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 21:41:15 GMT

I received this email today from the folks at Midnight Special:

Hi Everyone...

Its Thursday, November 6 and we are finally OPEN. We hope to see ALL of you as soon as you can get here.

We're at 1450 2nd Street in Santa Monica, between Broadway and Santa Monica Blvd.
Hours are 10:30 - 9:00 Sunday - Thursday, and 10:30 - 10:00 on Friday and Saturday.

Thank you for waiting for us; for encouraging us; for supporting us.

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NaNoWriMo Starts in Nov.

jessica — Mon, 27 Oct 2003 20:17:55 GMT

For those of you in need of a structured format to schedule your own book writing:

http://www.nanowrimo.org/

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Author Pierre wins Booker prize

jessica — Tue, 14 Oct 2003 23:34:38 GMT

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3191160.stm

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Book Recommend

jessica — Fri, 24 Oct 2003 17:01:41 GMT

I'm reading a great new memoir by and about Madeleine Albright titled "Madam Secretary." I can't put it down.

She writes about her birth in the former Czechoslovakia, her refuge status after WWII, moving to the US, her diplomatic/academic family, etc. Really fascinating stuff...

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