I am sure you have all read the mass of news on Amazon’s Kindle. Makes me feel secure that books will be here for a long time.

As Catherine Sheldrick Ross and others have said, reading is a social activity. Books are borrowed, lent, shared, resold and bought second hand. They are picked up […]

Great little article by Anthony Grafton, recounting the history of reading, publishing and organizing books, ending with Google and other smaller efforts to digitize books. Conclusion:

Sit in your local coffee shop, and your laptop can tell you a lot. If you want deeper, more local knowledge, you will have to take the narrower path […]

Here is the conclusion of my analysis of DSpace. I liked this one, I had a fun time doing it. The issue is that I use Latex and Bibtex, so I couldn’t seem to copy text from a PDF to submit it to my blog without taking off the references. But, here […]

To Peter Suber, because there are no comments on his blog, for what I can tell. From this post:

Nor does the barrier-free access seem to have begun yet. Here’s a public-domain 1897 edition of MacBeth scanned from Harvard’s library. I can print it one page at a time, but I can’t find a […]