Monday, October 07, 2013

Cyberflanerie: Wondering About Books Edition

Seth Godin on An End of Books.

Methinks antiquarian book collecting is going to be very big. Check out the not-yet-but surely-soon-to-be-ABAA-member Honey & Wax's lovely, oh so lovely first catalog.

Elephantine thoughts are a-dancing in tutus with The Swerve.

"A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader and the intonation it imposes upon his voice and the changing and durable images it leaves in his memory. A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships."
-- Jorge Luis Borges, "A Note on (toward) Bernard Shaw"