I just took possession of some 300 art books from a friend. They were rotting in a shed (but slowly) and one or two had begun to get mold on their covers. These books span art history and catalogues from the 1970s – 2000. They include paperback which, though I never took an art history…
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Internet Research
Most research done by the public these days is a matter of reading one or two articles or watching one or two videos they find. They don’t do much more research on those writing or talking than reading the cv on the site. They don’t then write to a leading academic in the field to…
Farewell Books
They proclaim everywhere they sell them that e-readers are the new book and old style books are going into decline within years. Libraries are becoming virtual and existing libraries will be frequented eventually by scholars and those interested in the past. Can this be true? No more the joy of feeling a book in your…
Farewell To Books?
When they excavated the library at Herculaneum they found hundreds of scrolls. Mostly stoical philosophy, but to have a library and a country estate two thousand years ago meant the owner had wealth. You can see them looking at the scrolls and after years of collecting knowing where to look for what they wanted to…