[jenarcherwood]

[bibliobibulus]

An edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein laid out using characters and glyphs from PDF documents obtained through internet searches. The incomplete fonts found in the PDFs were reassembled into the text of Frankenstein based on their frequency of use. The most common characters are employed at the beginning of the book, and the text devolves into less common, more grotesque shapes and forms toward the end. (via The Frankenfont project reconstructs Mary Shelley’s classic Frankenstein using parts of incomplete fonts found in PDFs from the internet. | Fathom)

[bazzerio]

[uispeccoll]

We’re getting into the spirit of Halloween this week with some spooky posts! This great image can be seen at the very end of The Folklore of the Pennsylvania Germans, published in 1916. [Stein GR110.P4 S75 1916] #uiowa #specialcollections #libraries #halloween2014 #skeletons #folklore #pennsylvania #germanhistory #20thcentury

[jessiepinkman]

Marla, the big tourist. Her lie reflected my lie. Suddenly, I felt nothing.

[rasmalaii-deactivated20200407]

'Words are life, Liesel'

-Max Vandenburg

[lizthefangirl]

when you re-read a book and realize you skipped over an important sentence the first time you read it

[eucalyptia]

[salvuus]

I read this book in the 3rd grade and literally thought it was the best book ever written

[itsalessia]

[escapethegrey-deactivated202003]

This is what October is all about - crying wishing you were at Hogwarts enjoying beautifully warm and delicious feasts

[parasites-as-big-as-my-arm]

[wildlovemag]

[portionsofeternity]

Bram Stoker’s Dracula, First Edition, 1897 Published in Westminster by the Archibald Constable and Company

[mmorrow-blog]

Sleepy Hollow (1999)

[bookpatrol]

Wolfman’s Books by kylejglenn on Flickr.

[shiyoonkim]

Hermione’s last minute study crunch before exams!

[geneticwitch]

okay I’m gonna reblog this again because last time I didn’t say what I thought about this picture

I LOVE THIS SO MUCH. This makes the universe of Harry Potter so much more magical than I ever dreamed it to be. In the movies and books it’s like an average library with magic books, but this picture shows a Hogwarts alive and brimming with magic. The shelves are impossibly tall because you can enchant stuff to help you reach, so why SHOULDN’T the shelves be huge? I love the girls walking on books like stairs, the cat who got caught on a flying book, Hermione sitting on a book like a chair, everyone’s casual confidence in their unbelievable magic because it’s natural to them. It’s part of their everyday lives. I love the Harry Potter world so much that it hurts, and this picture is gorgeous and makes me relive the magic I have loved since I was little.

[observando]

Of all man’s instruments, the most wondrous, no doubt, is the book. The other instruments are extensions of his body. The microscope, the telescope, are extensions of his sight; the telephone is the extension of his voice; then we have the plow and the sword, extensions of the arm. But the book is something else altogether: the book is an extension of memory and imagination.

Jorge Luis Borges (via observando)

[the-manila-institute]

[quoted-books]

Women were different, no doubt about it. Men broke so much more quickly. Grief didn’t break women. Instead it wore them down, it hollowed them out very slowly.

Cornelia Funke, Inkdeath (via quoted-books)

[adelineania-deactivated20160108]

Codi Ann Thomsen photographed by Adeline Ania.