hi Amy,
thank you for your link to the youtube / Telegraph video BIRTH OF A BOOK!
Notes:
- Paper was invented by the ancient Chinese in about 105 C.E (Han Dynast) and spread slowly to the west via the Silk Road.
- The earliest woodblock printed fragments were from China, before 220 AD.
- Between 1041 and 1048, the first known movable type system was created out of porcelain in Bi Sheng. (Source: the wood printing in wikipedia)
- Block printing was used in Christian Europe as a method for printing on cloth, where it was common by 1300. At around 1400, paper became relatively available.
- Johannes Gutenberg, Mainz in Germany, developed European movable type printing technology in 1439. Gutenberg was also credited with the introduction of an oil-based ink. — Source: Wikipedia “History of Printing“
Ebook:
- December 2004 Google signaled an extension to its Google Print initiative known as the Google Print Library Project , then announced partnerships with several high-profile university and public libraries
- First generation Kindle…
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Thank you so much, Frizz! 🙂
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the birth of my book has been forgotten …
Step by step I enjoyed more and more the comments of my readers. They often inspired me to dive deeper into a topic. The result now is a print edition “Fragments And Feedbacks” – 132 pages, 52 topics, only words, no photos, a “best of” (so far) out of more than 1,300 articles – if you are interested please visit the “June Edition”:
http://www.blurb.com/b/4367824-fragments-and-feedbacks-june-2013
content
01 – About Frizztext
02 – Adorno
03 – American Dreams
04 – Art
05 – Bergson
06 – Biography
07 – Bloch
08 – Bruno
09 – Cervantes
10 – Childhood
11 – Cioran
12 – Cowcross Street
13 – Dialogue
14 – Donna, Donna
15 – Eastside Gallery
16 – Eltz Castle
17 – Epicurus
18 – Erikson
19 – Existentialism
20 – Fathers
21 – Flaubert
22 – Foucault
23 – Freud
24 – Horses’ History
25 – Huntington
26 – Ivy House
27 – Jaspers
28 – Joe
29 – Kant
30 – Kierkegaard
31 – Language as lifestyle
32 – Lichtenberg
33 – Magellan
34 – Montaigne
35 – Music
36 – Nietzsche
37 – Quietness
38 – Roots
39 – Schopenhauer
40 – Socrates
41 – Spinoza
42 – Steel Industry
43 – Suicide
44 – Swift
45 – Thoreau
46 – Tracks
47 – Train to Berlin
48 – Umbrella
49 – Up in the Bronx
50 – Virus
51 – Volkswagen
52 – Water Stories
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My favorite subject…Books!!!
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