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.

• 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.

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.

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

make your own motto hearts

and for those of us with other interests we have

generate your own tombstone

[via Aurora Fox @morningstarbooks.com]

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?

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.