A gentile black hole that knows how to read

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I wrote a thing...

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Handmade Book Journal

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Papercut Calvin and Hobbes by John Rozum / Tumblr

Part of the I Love You Man art show, opening Friday May 10th at the Bottleneck Gallery / Facebook.

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Lighting Books (by Bryce Wolkowitz)

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but i wanted to use that thing in my hands: a memoir

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Boarding School is a brother sister team from Seattle & Maine. We find recycled wood and create beautiful finished boards which are bound into journals, books, and albums (via).

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Stuttgart City Library, Stuttgart, Germany

Trinity College Library, Dublin, Ireland

Library of Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt

Real Gabinete Português de Leitura, Rio de Janiero, Brazil

The Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen, Denmark

George Peabody Library, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

Kanazawa Umimirai Library, Kanazawa City, Japan

New York Public Library, New York City, NY

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More great quotes about libraries on photos of beautiful libraries

After the amazing response to the last one of these I made, I’ve put together more great library quotes - this time adding in your suggestions - including one from this awesome song. Keep quiet and read books:

George Peabody Library - Baltimore

Biblioteca Joanina, University of Coimbra - Portugal

Royal Library of the Monastery of El Escorial - Spain

Melk Monastery Library - Austria

Queen’s College Library, Oxford University - Oxford

Abbey Library St. Gallen - Switzerland

Strahov Monastery Library - Prague

Click to see full size. Support your local library, kids. Read part one.

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Twitter Fiction by Anna Short

This work explores and celebrates aspects of the book that cannot be experienced in a digital format - its physical form as a unique object that can the reader interacts with. To highlight the contrast of interacting with a non-digital book, I have reclaimed content that has been created specifically for a digital medium, and presented it to be appreciated for much longer than the few seconds it would have originally been considered for.

“Twitter fiction” or “flash fiction” refers to a Tweet that aims to be a whole story written as less than 140 characters and published via Twitter. They are usually only a few short sentences long, using evocative language to express a scene or story that leaves the plot details a mystery to the imagination of the reader.

My Tweet appears as a maze book that must be untied, unfolded, laid out on a surface and solved like a puzzle before the text can be read. In this way, it responds to the idea that the physical act of reading a book is an enjoyable, special experience.

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Deconstructed Binding Studies by Benjamin Reynaert

Selection of various exposed-spine or “deconstructed" bindings. These sewing patterns have been learned through study and many are original techniques I have developed that expose the structure of the binding and reveal all of the elements of a handmade book. 

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Typosynaesthesia by Anna Short

The word synaesthesia (which literally means “together sensation”) is a neurological condition where the stimulation of one sense triggers an involuntary response in another. A common example is colour-grapheme synaesthesia, which causes letters or numbers to be perceived as coloured. The precise colours perceived are unique and usually remain consistent for each person.

‘Typosynaesthesia’ is a simultaneous exploration of typefaces and colour-grapheme synaesthesia, with each letter and number displayed in a different colour, as a synaesthete might perceive them.

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(Handmade Leather Guestbook)

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Three piece paper binding with decorated front and back covers, done in watercolour