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Since it's just over halfway through the year, I figured I'd check in on my New Year's resolutions for 2008 and see how I'm doing: 1. I've read 19 books so far this year. Yeah, Houston, I'm in trouble. Considering how things are going I'm not sure if ...

First, a nice article from the Edmonton Sun on Project Gutenberg: Think of Newby, Akrigg and Hart as a breed of literary Indiana Jones — searching along forgotten bookshelves, instead of dark, damp tombs. The thinking man's library raiders — with computers instead of wooden crates to store their prized ...

[Cross-posted from Blank Slate.] I went to a Coptic bookbinding workshop yesterday (a pre-conference part of the A. Dean Larsen Book Collecting Conference, which was today) and made my first book binding: (You can see more photos on Flickr, by the way.) So, it's ...

Yesterday morning I was browsing through my copy of Tales Before Tolkien, and I happened to notice the Recommended Reading section at the back, which I'd never seen before. Goosebumps. You see, that section lists early fantasy writers and their works (William Morris, E. Nesbit, Lord Dunsany, Walter de la Mare, John ...

Back in May, I decided to start digitizing the Welsh Book of Mormon (Llyfr Mormon), dubbing the endeavor Project Cymru. It was going along pretty well for a while, but then I got bogged down over the summer and kind of forgot about the project. I did ...

I checked out some books on Hebrew and Arabic today, and as I was leafing through the Hebrew one at dinner (Hebrew for Biblical Interpretation by Arthur Walker-Jones), I realized something: I really want to publish language books. Both books about the languages and texts in the languages. You see, ...

After a (far too) long absence, I've finally published a new Riverglen Press book, Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: I mainly made it as a test to see how Lulu's pocket size books ...

My reader's edition of the Book of Mormon is now part of Special Collections here at the HBLL (thanks to Hilary for letting me know it had gotten out of cataloguing): The first of what will hopefully be many. ;) (To be ...

And now, a NaBoMoReMo reading chart specifically for the Riverglen Press reader's edition of the Book of Mormon: As for my own NaBoMoReMoing, I'm keeping on schedule ...

I've gotten a little design-giddy in the last couple of days, and this morning I redid Riverglen Press: Better, I think. :) I've started incorporating my own photographs into my site designs, instead of looking for stock photos. Hopefully in ...