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Chris Bray : In the first volume of his biography of Andrew Jackson, Robert Remini neatly captures the strangeness of state sovereignty. I...

Chava Willig Levy, The Kindle and the Jewish Question : Like my father and the Jewish doctoral student, a Chasidic master living at the turn...

The Importance of Order: German Researchers Tackle Untidy Desks, from Der Spiegel Online : It's the same problem everywhere: Overloaded ...

[I especially like the shout-out to linotype.] June 23, 1868: Tap, Tap, Tap, Tap, Tap … Ding! | This Day In Tech | Wired.com : Christopher L...

Claire Harman in the TLS : It is a surprise to discover, from Stuart Clarke’s excellent notes, how hard Woolf worked on these seemingly effo...

From Libraries of the Future (1965) : As a medium for the display of information, the printed page is superb. It affords enough resolution t...

Peter J. Dougherty, "A Manifesto for Scholarly Publishing" - from ChronicleReview.com : Books — specifically scholarly titles publ...

UrbanOutfitters.com > Olivetti Manual Typewriter - Black : There's nothing like the resounding "click" of an old-fashioned ...

I am a sucker for long histories, especially when they're summarized with simple schema. Phillip Greenspun wrote this for a talk on how ...

We loooove Kevin Kelly around here at Snarkmarket. Robin tipped me off to his stuff and he's since joined Atul Gawande, Roger Ebert, Vir...

From a BBC radio debate with her husband (and publisher) Leonard, titled " Are Too Many Books Written and Published? ": Books ough...

Clusterflock 's skeleton crew has some nice nineteenth-century stuff this weekend: First Barbary War (May 1801-1805) First edition of By...

File under: " Why didn't you just Twitter this, again?" I've been shopping for a laptop bag as we speak, so I am 100% pri...

The Chronicle of Higher Education on the Kindle DX and the market for electronic textbooks : Most college students—more than 80 percent, acc...

VERY mature books (is 8000 BC old enough?) with an astonishingly sexy zoom feature -- similar to Google Maps, but smoother and more natural,...

Something Walter Benjamin said has interested me for a while now: If centuries ago [writing] began gradually to lie down, passing from the u...

Two weeks ago I praised Harper's Scott Horton , who in addition to tiptop legal/political commentary regularly serves up poignant and re...

I had never heard of this before : LIBRARY CULTURE INFORMATION-RETRIEVAL CULTURE Careful selection a. quality ...

Some people keep tabs open in their browser for days or weeks; I keep them open in my well-loved RSS reader NetNewsWire . (NNW doubles as a ...

Always good to reread Brown and Duguid's " The Social Life of Documents ": In this way, document forms both old (like the news...