Artist Dawne Michelle Watters has created a set of book jackets bearing fake titles. So now you can fool public transit eavesdroppers (like myself) into thinking you’re reading classics like How to Overcome Nymphomania, Laser Eye Surgery at Home and Fast Track to Prison – Exploring the Many Benefits of Life Behind Bars.
Book jacket silliness
The Ghost in My Hands: On Reading Digital Books
The virtual bookshelf on my Kindle is a list of titles that I've read but never held. These books are just ideas, abstractions, nothing less, nothing more.
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The Physical Book Will Surely Endure: But Will It Endure for the Right Reason?
As an empirical matter, reading on a tablet cannot remotely approach the sensual literary experience offered by an old-fashioned book. The latter is, I’d venture, intrinsically more pleasurable than the former, not unlike the intrinsic difference between high quality toilet paper and the sandpaper stuff used in bus stations.
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Judging Books by Their Covers 2016: US vs. UK
Only a fool would think these covers came from different countries. They were clearly designed in alternate dimensions.
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The Private Library: What Books Reveal About Their Readers
On a page of Charles Darwin’s 'The Voyage of the HMS Beagle Round the World,' Mark Twain wrote: “Can any plausible excuse be furnished for the crime of creating the human race?”
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The Bard’s Book? An Epic eBay Buy
If any fragment with Shakespeare’s handwriting came to light, it would generate international headlines, and that scrap would be worth millions. In this sense, Shakespeare truly is the “holy grail” of the rare book world.
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The Weight of Knowledge: On Moving Books
It would be trickier to decide whom to put in the adult diaper boxes.
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Praise the Colophon: Twenty Notes on Type
I call for the return of colophons. Colophons can send us back into books for another level of reading. If we love books, that second reading might be ecstatic in the same way good writing can lift us.
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Ink on Paper: On the Beauty of Typewritten Book Covers
The reason these typewritten book covers have caught my eye and captured my heart is because they’ve so ingeniously captured the essence of the writing process -- and the central truth that no piece of writing is ever truly finished.
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