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banktoasters • I was trying unsucessfully to find a diagram for a temporary protective book cover. I know it’s in one of my books somewhere – talk of a needle in a stack of needles.

Preservation Librarian Peter D. Verheyen was helpful enough to remind me of the lovely trove of free goodies that the Conservation Lab at Syracuse University has online:

just a few samples

Conservation Manuals:

• Conservation Recase – Recasing in cloth retaining the original sewing and adding new endsheets.
• Molded Paper Spine – For recasing pre-1800 volumes sewn on raised cords, providing a much more sypathetic appearance than recasing in cloth.
• Thin Paper Spine – Rebinding for books less than 1cm thick.
  

  Enclosures

• Phase Box – Cut, folded, and assembed four flap enclosure.
• Mylar Phase Box – As above but with Mylar wrapping for the spine to show contents.
• Drop Spine Box – Trays cut & assembled and covered in cloth.
• Windowed Drop Spine Box – As above but with a window in the spine to show contents.
• Encapsulation – Mylar encapsulation using an edge welder.
  

  Other

• Exhibit Cradles – Made of Vivak, a plexiglass which can be cut on the boardshear and folded by hand.
• The Care and Handling of Books and Manuscripts: A Workshop for SUL SCRC Staff and Students. In PowerPoint format.

There are a lot more resources there, you can easily waste an afternoon.

I made a little something something for the journal fetishists . . . figure this is as good a place as any to post it. A 2 page PDF of a template that slips it under unlined pages, so that your handwriting doesn’t look all cock-eyed, like mine does.

• three 4½” x 7½” with lines spaced at ¼”, ½” and ¾”
• one storyboard template with 4″ x 3″ boxes
all corners are rounded which helps them fit snuggly inside a Moleskine pocket

click the image for a better look.

funny ha ha • Completely un-biblio – but heavily amusing. Frogview has a series of these posted.

banktoaster • TypeCulture has an archive of typography videos, too cool for words.

To whomever asked me to check out your comparision pricing search engine, i didn’t forget, I merely lost your email, I think it got spam binned. I googled you but couldn’t remember the name of your site. Feel free to send me another email.

banktoaster • The International League of Antiquarian Booksellers has put up a super nifty deluxe pdf version of the 8th ed. of John Carter’s ABC for Book Collectors. I’d advise the 4 or 5 of ya’ll who don’t have this book as yet to download all 240 pages immediately.

[thanks for the heads up from Mike Watson @ 20 Ants]

naughty, naughty • Elie Wiesel was attacked and dragged out of a San Francisco hotel elevator last week, by a Holocaust denier who may have been stalking him.

music to read by • Harper Collins Canada is issuing a soundtrack to accompany Vikram Chandra’ s book Sacred Games.

worth reading • in the Tehachapi News’ Weedpatch Gazette Sam Heath has an opinion about why Harper Lee never wrote another book. (you know i just wanted to quote the ‘Weedpatch’ Gazette )

oh fabio • from AP wire – Books By You sells personalized romance novels where the reader is the star. Apparently it’s VERY popular around this time of year. (bookbyyou.com) What’s next choose your own sex adventure ? hey wait a minute . . . forget i said that . . . anyone know a copyright lawyer?

banktoaster • here’s another list of free faxing services, I have only tried a few of them. But for the few faxes I send or receive a year, on online service works fine. Besides if i had an in-house fax machine again, it would only get clogged with all natural viagra adds.

banktoasters •

make your own motto hearts

and for those of us with other interests we have

generate your own tombstone

[via Aurora Fox @morningstarbooks.com]

worth hearing • from NPR’s Hear and Now Rosemary Sullivan author of Villa Air-Bel: World War II, Escape, and a House in Marseille which chronicles the efforts of an underground movement to shelter individuals such as André Breton, Max Ernst, Victor Serge, Marc Chagall, Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry, Remedios Varo, Benjamin Péret, and scores of other cultural elite denounced as enemies of the Third Reich.

banktoaster • the Simpler Dollar Blog has a nice addendum to my Talking to Yourself post, a review of the Free online service, Remember the Milk – which allows you to set up automated lists.

dystopia alert • A new report claims that the Bush administration has suppressed scientists’ climate-change work. am i the only one not surprised here?

worth hearing • Susan Cheever author American Bloomsbury guested on NPR’s Studio 360

worth reading • a piece on the writer’s ‘Chinese rejection’ from Canada.com, just read it, take too long to explain.

something new • from the LATIMES a review of The Little Book of Plagiarism by Richard A. Posner

blog of note • from ABE’s Reading Copy blog, Abe has added some use friendly and informative online magazine ‘rooms’ to its site.

banktoaster • Senduit.com allows you to upload a file online and receive a custom URL to download the file from Senduit’s servers. This address can be shared by the user freely and can be used to download the file a reasonable number of times. The address expires in an amount of time designated by the user (between 30 minutes and 1 week)

steakknives • SyncBack is a freeware program that helps you easily backup and synchronise your files to: the same drive; a different drive or medium (CDRW, CompactFlash, etc); an FTP server; a Network; or a Zip archive.

worth seeing • A public service type instructional video from a series called “The Significant Occupation Series” circa late 1950’s. [via book patrol]

biblioporn • The Book Clasps and Book Furniture website presents a selection of historical book clasps from the 15 th to the 20 th century. Books have been selected from the Baltic and Rare Books Collection of the Academic Library of Tallinn University on the strength of their remarkable clasps and furniture. [via bibliodyssey]

Dante gets posthumous nose job – 700 years on

ROME (Reuters) – Italian scientists have made a reconstruction of the face of the poet Dante some 700 years after he died and have found some surprises, particularly about the supposed shape of his famous aquiline nose.

banktoaster - Downloadable 2007 Word Calendar templates from MS. [via dailydiy]

faking it – from the Timesonline a bluffers guide to a few Books You Shouldn’t Bother to Read.