Bookbinding, and the Care of Books
There’s a certain delicious irony about releasing an ebook about the care and binding of print books.
Though still a valuable work, some things have changed somewhat since this was first published [1901]:
Smoking was found to be injurious, and it is certainly a mistake to allow it in libraries.
… touch both sides of the sheets where they have been stained with a brush dipped in essence of turpentine heated to boiling-point.
I’d like to see that get past the Health & Safety Committee!
Updated: J. Sheridan Le Fanu
The work on upgrading all of our ebooks continues. I’m up to “L”. This being a rather repetitive business, I took a little time out to add to the collection of works by Le Fanu, acknowledged master of the gothic horror genre, and one of its earlier proponents. There’s one new novel, The House by the Churchyard, and a large number of new short stories, including Spalatro, a creepy gothic tale which prefigures the Vampire genre, as well as lots of ghost stories. Perfect for lonely nights.
There are still more works to be added. I’m currently proofing the novel The Wyvern Mystery. But it being from a poor scan, there are still many, many errors to fix.
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Petr Kropotkin: free web books, online
A propos of nothing in particular (a friend mentioned it in passing) I have added a new edition of Petr Kropotkin‘s Mutual Aid, about which Wikipedia says:
Written partly in response to Social Darwinism and in particular to Thomas H. Huxley’s Nineteenth Century essay, “The Struggle for Existence,” Kropotkin’s book drew on his experiences in scientific expeditions in Siberia to illustrate the phenomenon of cooperation. After examining the evidence of cooperation in nonhuman animals, “savages,” “barbarians,” in medieval cities, and in modern times, he concludes that cooperation and mutual aid are as important in the evolution of the species as competition and mutual strife, if not more so.
Enjoy!
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