book about you

[it's not that i can't see the forest for the trees. it's just that sometimes i'm distracted by the twigs.]

[onthestrand]

We’re sold on this exhibition: still time to see the art of the paperback covers in Britain from the 1960s & 70s, which sounds really geeky but you know it’s not.

[powells]

[classicpenguin]

Basically, this is what it would look like if we hired the talented folks at Powell’s to clean up/curate our offices…So well done!

[bookaboutyou]

Vintage Film Shows How the Oxford English Dictionary Was Made in 1925

There was lots of money to be made at the end of the 19th century and Dudley Docker made his share of it. He was what they called a baron of industry at a time when manufacturing was exploding in Britain.

Docker's company made a film about the Clarendon Press in 1925 and it was recently digitised. Ch-ch-check it out!

[bookaboutyou]

Show the world we want a phone worth keeping! #phonebloks http://thndr.it/15eLEMU

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Book Titles with One Letter Missing, via Pleated Jeans

[penguinoncampus]

  In Pictures: The Taksim Square Book Club

Protesters stand silently and read (Penguin and other) books in central Istanbul, in stark contrast with scenes of violence. The chosen reading material of many of those who take their stand is reflective, in part, of the thoughtfulness of those who have chosen this motionless protest to express their discontent.

[bookaboutyou]

[From Huffington Post:

Yesterday, author Maureen Johnson had a great idea. She tweeted "I do wish I had a dime for every email I get that says, "Please put a non-girly cover on your book so I can read it. - signed, A Guy" - and so came the idea for a challenge for her 77,000 followers. A challenge that she called Coverflip.]

For more, follow the jump.

[bookaboutyou]

oh, hello there, terrifying new design for the new robin kirkpatrick translation of dante's inferno, courtesy penguin books.

[heyoscarwilde]

“It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.” - Oscar Wilde

classic paperbacks photographed by Marisa Swangha :: via etsy.com

[phdstress]

When the abstract is rejected

[believermag]

Margaret Atwood! (Remember kids, begin dreaming early…)

[bookaboutyou]

well, now i want to hear that reindeer romp commercial!

[cosascool]

The Ghosts of World War II by Sergey Larenkov

Taking old World War II photos, Russian photographer Sergey Larenkov carefully photoshops them over more recent shots to make the past come alive. Not only do we get to experience places like Berlin, Prague, and Vienna in ways we could have never imagined, more importantly, we are able to appreciate our shared history in a whole new and unbelievably meaningful way.

[bookaboutyou]

watch that vowel!

tittymeg: /'tɪtɪmɛg/

A whitefish of Canadian and North American lakes, Coregonus clupeiformis. (OED n)

titty mag: /tɪtɪ mæg/

A magazine featuring nude, partially nude, or otherwise suggestive photos of women. (common US usage; cf. OED n.6 1d) 

[just think - the only aural difference is the way you say that last vowel.]

[bookaboutyou]

(via The stars of British theatre - in pictures)

[bookaboutyou]

Alfred Hickling gives a promising review to Opera North's current production of 'Giulio Cesare', but I think he misinterprets how the director (Tim Albery) and the Cleopatra (Sarah Tynan) view the presentation of a woman's power in a man's world. For one thing, neither of them talk about flirtation. For another, I think it's naive to consider flirtation as an activity outside the bounds of power struggle.

The video is a refreshing insight into the way two perspectives (i.e. one dominated by telling a collective story, the other by telling an individual story) come together to tell the same story.

Hickling's full review here.

[bookshelfporn]

The Joy of Books 

Many sleepless nights were spent moving, stacking, and animating books at Type bookstore in Toronto to create this video.

(via Sarah Moran)

[bookaboutyou]

books about the store.  a favorite in the trend of stop-motion bookimation.

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a play I'd like to read -or- when typos are good

The Bling Beggar of Bednal Green