The Pedalling Protobibliothecarius

A (largely) bookish & bikeish miscellany

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Libraries of the Literari #46:

Anthony Powell.

[danismm]

Travel booklet “The Golden Road to Turkestan (Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Xinjiang (East Turkestan or Chinese Turkestan). Often, the Turkic regions of Afghanistan and Russia (Tatarstan and parts of Siberia) are included as well.)

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Wanderlust, Satiate #1:

Back to Bokhara, for the first time? 

[muspeccoll]

#TypographyTuesday: Anton Koberger was one of the most successful printers of the late 15th and early 16th centuries.⠀ ⠀ BX1308 .A3 1496⠀ ⠀ #antonkoberger #romantype #typography #bibliophile #bookstagram #booklover #rarebooks #specialcollections #librariesofinstagram #iglibraries #mizzou #universityofmissouri #ellislibrary #ifttt

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Typography101 #1

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Bookshelves I Have Longed For #174:

Bookstore/market in Obidos, Portugal.

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Bookshelves I Have Longed For #173:

The library of the German Society, Philadelphia. Via Taras Grescoe.

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Libraries of the Literati #45:

Edward Gorey, lounging amid books and cats.

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Bookshelves I Have Longed For #172:

An early-17th-century travelling library housed in a large book , University of Leeds.

[bookriot]

How to pronounce commonly mispronounced author names, as requested by viewers/Book Riot readers! Names mentioned: Adi Alsaid China Miéville Lauren Beukes Celeste Ng Evelyn Waugh Jhumpa Lahiri Colm Tóibín Sebastian Faulks Michael Ondaatje Vikram Seth Diana Gabaldon Neil Gaiman John le Carré Kazuo Ishiguro Jeffrey Eugenides Louise Erdrich Rick Riordan Ayn Rand Rainbow Rowell Khaled Hosseini Thomas Pynchon Orhan Pamuk Jo Nesbø

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Scraps from an autobiography #4:

In which I realize I’ve been mispronouncing more than one author name for years and years. More than more than one, actually.

[calm-mysoul]

Westsider Books

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Bookshelves I Have Longed For #171:

Westsider Books, Upper West Side, NY. A must-visit for me every time I’m in New York.

[the-bookshop]

Source.

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Bookshelves I Have Longed For #170:

[rollersinstinct]

Didi takes a starring role in this Tour de France poster from Spencer Wilson.

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Art of Cycling #48:

Delightful Spencer Wilson poster with everyone’s favourite TdF side-show taking on a prominent role.

[classicvintagecycling]

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Cyclists Being Cyclists #47:

Time-trialists from beyond the moon.

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July 8, 2017 music chart, top 30

What I've been listening to... generally drawn from BBC Radio 6, CBC Radio 2, Live 105 (Halifax), and other such useful tools for finding new music that I frequently consult.

Going to try something a bit different. Dealing with neither books nor bikes. 

This may be a one-time thing.

I’ve kept some sort of music chart (tracking the songs that interest me, on and off, for the past twenty years or so. After a couple of years’ lapse, I got back into managing a chart last autumn, linking it with my Spotify account.

This is no trendsetter or taste-maker list. I claim to be neither. This is just what I listen to. And I thought I might share it, with playlist linked. 

LW TW Artist - Song (Weeks on) 04 01 Portugal. The Man - Feel it Still (11) **1 week at #1** 01 02 A Blaze of Feather - Carousel (11) **1 week at #1** 05 03 Michael Kiwanuka - Cold Little Heart (9) 06 04 Dan Auerbach - Shine on Me (11) 03 05 Lorde - Green Light (19) **3 weeks at #1** 02 06 Japandroids - No Known Drink or Drug (15) **1 week at #1** 10 07 Slowdive - Sugar for the Pill (7) 09 08 The War on Drugs - Thinking of a Place (9) 12 09 Phoenix - J-boy (7) 07 10 LCD Soundsystem - Call the Police (10) 13 11 Mo Kenney - If You're Not Dead (6) 08 12 Broken Social Scene - Halfway Home (13) 16 13 Arcade Fire - Everything Now (5) 17 14 Liam Gallagher - Wall of Glass (5) 15 15 Car Seat Headrest - Unforgiving Girl (She's Not An) (8) 11 16 Courtney Barnett - How to Boil an Egg (8) 19 17 Foo Fighters - Run (5) 22 18 Alvvays - In Undertow (4) 20 19 Mark Lanegan Band - Beehive (7) 21 20 Whitehorse - Nighthawks (3) 14 21 Oh Wonder - Ultralife (15) **2 weeks at #1** 23 22 Beach Fossils - Down the Line (4) 29 23 The National - The System Only Dreams in Total Darkness (2) 28 24 Waxahatchee - Never Been Wrong (2) 26 25 Queens of the Stone Age - The Way You Used To Do (3) 18 26 Kendrick Lamar - Humble. (8) --- 27 Royal Blood - How Did We Get So Dark? (1) --- 28 Wolf Alice - Yuk Foo (1) 25 29 Underworld - I Exhale (20) **2 weeks at #1** --- 30 Cold Specks - Wild Card (1)

[the-bookshop]

Source.

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Bookshelves I Have Longed For #19:

[revoltedsadness]

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Bookshelves I Have Longed For #168:

Greenery, stonework, and books. Sold.

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Cyclists Being Cyclists #46:

My favourite cyclist elbowing my least favourite cyclist. This should be a moment of celebration. Alas no. Why Peter why.

Ahh heck, I can’t stay mad at you, Sagan.

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This Man Is Trying To Rebuild A Library Burned Down By ISIS

The library at the University of Mosul was burned down by ISIS after it captured the city in 2014. One man is leading efforts to restock it with books.

Heroes of the Book #7:

Reconstructing the devastated library at the University of Mosul.