A Kindle Designer's Touching Online Memorial To The Marginalia Scribbled In Books

With The Pages Project, a designer of early ebooks revels in the inky, intimate musings from the margins of used books.Erik Schmitt's obsession with marginalia—handwritten scribbles or notes in the margins of books—began after he inherited a chunk of his grandfather's library. Handwritten in the white spaces of the books' pages, he found translations of German poems, notes on philosophy, and mini history lessons. "[There was] this sense of getting to know somebody, a family member, in a strange way," he says.Read Full Story Continue reading at 'Fast Company'

[ Fast Company | 2014-11-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Readers rally to protest online censorship of erotic books

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[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-10-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Steven Soderbergh's Twitter Novella Is Now a Hardcover Book (But You Can Read It Online)

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[ Fast Company | 2013-09-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Google patent filing describes tailored online book clubs, minus the wine

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[ Engadget | 2013-09-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kindle's iOS app gets a flatter design to match iOS 7

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[ Engadget | 2013-09-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Hole in Our Collective Memory: How Copyright Made Mid-Century Books Vanish

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[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-05-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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