The average typewriter had up to 40 keys and could type around 60 characters. Originally made in Japan in the late 1940s, the Toshiba Typewriter Model...Continue reading
It’s not fair to expect a platform to host content for free forever (cough Flickr cough) but when MySpace deleted a dozen years worth of content...Continue reading
The Encyclopedia Britannica is now little more than an entry in the annals of the history of encyclopedias, but at one point it was one of the...Continue reading
Science fiction may seem resolutely modern, but the genre could actually be considered hundreds of years old. There are the alien green “children of Woolpit”, who...Continue reading
There’s a post referenced in tomorrow morning’s link post that touches on interactive fiction. That piece claims IF is a new idea that is changing the...Continue reading
Happy 350th birthday, Jonathan Swift. Widely recognised as the leading satirist in the history of the English language, Swift found his way into the world 350...Continue reading
There’s been no end, in the nearly a quarter of a century since the modern internet began, of detractors talking about how wonderful things were before it...Continue reading
A French university has just announced what sounds like the plot for a new TV show. A multidisciplinary team of archaeologists and historians from the Paris...Continue reading
To celebrate the diversity, innovation and influence of academic books over the course of modern history, seven specialists share the book they believe has been most...Continue reading
After years of sales growth, major UK publishers reported a fall in their e-book sales for the first time this year, introducing new doubts about the...Continue reading
Thanks to innumerable movies, Gothic architecture has long been associated with horror, Halloween, and the supernatural. The mere mention of Dracula or Frankenstein conjures visions of...Continue reading
If you thought that the way the publishing industry jumps on the latest werehamster/interurban fantasy/cyclops detective/moody vampire/hipster zombie* fad is a new development, you would be...Continue reading
Yesterday’s news about the new Voiceview for Kindle accessibility feature has lead many news sites to proclaim that it is Amazon’s first accessible ereader. Given that...Continue reading