Archive: Bookland category
From now on, the posts I would have written here will be posted to Top of the Mountains instead.
Today I found an excellent article from George Wythe College's website entitled "The Necessity of the Classics", by Louise Cowan:
Our need for the classics is intense. Yet any defense of them in our time must come from a sense of their absolute necessity -- not from a desire to ...
After hours of cataloging and typing, my book collection is now entered into LibraryThing. (Well, almost -- there are eight books where the ISBN number didn't work and I'll have to go back home to get the data so I can enter them in manually.) 638 books (including ...
Last night I spent a couple of hours cataloging my books for entry into LibraryThing. A lot of my books (perhaps even the majority) don't have ISBNs, having been printed before ISBNs started, and so I get to enter a lot by hand. But it's fun. :) ...
LibraryThing got a sweet deal with Abebooks.com:
LibraryThing is getting a partner. The partner is Abebooks.com, the Canadian company that matches booksellers with booklovers. Abe has taken a minority (40%) share of the company; I retain 60% and majority control. With the financial security and resources Abe brings ...
Check out Bookworm Droppings, a compilation of funny quotes from bookstores. Here are some of them:
"I had a book myself once. Never read it. It was blue. I don't suppose you have a copy?"
When folks ask if I rent books, I tell them yes, certainly, for a non-refundable ...
This morning as I made breakfast, I decided to try listening to the The Man Who Was Thursday instead of to music. And I did, for about 20 minutes, and it was better than I expected (the experience, that is -- I've already read the book). Listening ...
I've started reading St. Augustine's Confessions in Latin. Now, it's been almost four years since I studied Latin. Long time. And yet a lot of it's stuck, miraculously. I remember a lot of the endings (they seem to have become a permanent part of me), and ...
After a couple of hours of work, I've finished the Latin edition of Martin Luther's 95 Theses and made it downloadable at Riverglen Press. There are actually two versions: the learner's edition has large print and lots of extra space for making notes between the lines (as well ...
I've started my first project for Riverglen Press: Martin Luther's 95 Theses, in Latin. It'll be a learner's edition, for printing out and translating. I'm working off the Project Gutenberg text. ...
