As some of you know, I’ve occasionally posted links Rachel Loew’s BookPorn shots over at A Historian’s Craft. I think Rachel may have a competitor for my attention. The pics of lib… more →
Read, Write, NowRachel wrote 2 months ago: This is Tian Shu (天书) by Xu Bing (徐冰), often translated as Book from the Sky, but sometimes called … more →
plainbananas wrote 2 months ago: I’ll let you in on a secret: I’m a glutton for beads. I like options, and with options c … more →
bibliopegy wrote 4 months ago: I can never think of anything to say in first posts, so I’ll just start us off with some bookp … more →
Rachel wrote 6 months ago: I thought it was about time I bookporned the place I’ve become attached to (in both senses of … more →
Rachel wrote 6 months ago: Hanoi is without question, for me, the crazed, dirty, artsy, gutsy, eccentric capital and lifeblood … more →
Rachel wrote 7 months ago: I am not generally a complete sucker for gimmicks. BUT. In Suntec City, a colossal, scrupulously mo … more →
Rachel wrote 7 months ago: the Singapore National Library is quite a marvel: steel and glass wrought into elegance manifest. It … more →
Rachel wrote 8 months ago: Islamic calligraphy comes in a bewildering, beautiful array of scripts. Copying the Qur’an is … more →
Peter Kerry Powers wrote 10 months ago: Over at A Historian’s Craft, rachel leow has a really neat little project going on, mapping ou … more →
Rachel wrote 10 months ago: an excursion out into the Cambridge hinterlands yields a Find in the town of Saffron Walden: Lankest … more →
Rachel wrote 11 months ago: This isn’t full-fledged bookporn; it’s something more coy, more demure. Maybe it’s … more →
Rachel wrote 1 year ago: this is totally overdue. While I was in the States a couple of months ago, I spent 8 days in Cornel … more →
Rachel wrote 1 year ago: a most excellent bookstore somewhere on Broadway, NYC, whose name I can neither remember nor deciph … more →
Rachel wrote 1 year ago: what strikes first of all, in the Harold Washington, is the space: ten floors of it, a library with … more →
Rachel wrote 1 year ago: the NYC public library is an amazing space — skyhigh ceilings (literally!), to mute the dense … more →
Peter Kerry Powers wrote 1 year ago: I’ve been away from the keyboard for a while. Although it’s spring break I’ve bee … more →
Rachel wrote 1 year ago: before I tell you that the UIUC library is the third largest [edit: academic library] in North Ameri … more →
Rachel wrote 1 year ago: the UC bookstore is fantastic. For one, it’s underground, and makes no attempt to hide it. Th … more →
Nick wrote 1 year ago: Rachel over at A Historian’s Craft has a regular series of great posts on “bookporn … more →