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How to Rescue a Water-Damaged Book: A Short, Handy Primer (video)

20 October, 201711 May, 2018Book Culture, Books as Art4 Comments

We all know how to use the rice trick to recover a waterlogged gadget (hint: oatmeal works better), but have you ever had to revive a...

The Lost Art of Fore-Edge Artwork (video)

24 September, 201611 May, 2018Books as ArtLeave a comment

For the most part books are now mass-produced, disposable commodities (the construction quality of the average paperback makes that point indisputable). But there was a time...

Battle of Hydraulic Press v Book Ends in Pyrrhic Victory (video)

24 April, 201611 May, 2018Book Culture, Books as Art, humor3 Comments

The Hydraulic Press channel is one of those examples of what happens when engineers have access to industrial equipment and too much time on their hands...

The Map of Fictional London Will Keep You From Getting Lost in the Story

15 January, 201611 May, 2018Books as ArtOne Comment

Paper maps may be going the way of the phone book, but that doesn't mean they don't have their uses. Take the Map of Fictional London, for...

JungleBook: Simple Kindle eBook Cover Analysis

31 August, 201511 May, 2018Books as Art, Publishing7 Comments

For those who were intrigued by the Slate article on similar book covers, here is a guest post by Jason van Gumster. I got myself good and...

The Book Cover that Judges You (video)

7 February, 201511 May, 2018Books as Art3 Comments

We all judge books by their covers; it's the first step in deciding if a book is worth reading. Here's a book that turns the tables...

Artist Backs Up His Copy of 1984 The Old-Fashioned Way

30 July, 201311 May, 2018Books as Art5 Comments

I have heard of people who like to print out their content and read it on paper but this is a new one. An artist by...

What The Book Interactive Exhibit Reveals What People Really Feel About Books

19 October, 201211 May, 2018Books as ArtOne Comment

If you've ever wondered whether people secretly judge each other based on the contents of their bookshelves, a recent art exhibit in NYC shows that the...