Gradually an old dying craft making books? My own last book at least seems to have died a quiet death. I’ve read it at least and it affects me still.
related:
https://flickrcomments.wordpress.com/2013/07/10/bbb-challenge-birth-of-books/#comment-43155
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http://shareandconnect.wordpress.com/2013/07/10/bbb-challenge-birth-of-books/
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http://www.blurb.com/b/4367824-fragments-and-feedbacks-june-2013
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title=”big small” – photo by jelens = Helena, Barcelona
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I don’t think that’s true at all in my country…
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in my country amazon killed all local book shops – but pays no taxes, working from outside: Luxembourg. Where once were bookshops there you now can buy fashion clothes – for your ranking in the modern social pyramid it’s important how you dress, not what you read …
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That’s like having an exhibition and wondering if anyone will show up… if it’s something you believe in, it doesn’t matter what others think..
i went to the blurb site, and it’s very hard to read the preview pages.. the font is gray and small.. i think the book needs to be showcased better.. maybe some more excerpts or a list of the chapters?
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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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oh yes! now… there are topics that wave flags and say, ‘open this chapter now!’
art, horses’ history, music, quietness, suicide, thoreau… yes!
thanks! i hope that others will agree..
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I’m so sorry, dear Lisa, that your internet access is so slow!
http://www.blurb.com/b/4367824-fragments-and-feedbacks-june-2013
for the preview you maybe also need a special flash-player –
so thanks for your hint, to post the CONTENT list!
Of course our discussion about ART is featured there…
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I love the feel and smell of books. To handle them when I read. Used book stores and regular bookstores are disappearing here for sure. http://rutheh.com/2010/05/30/my-bookshelf/
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p.s. I went to Blurb and bought your book for my bookshelf.
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you made my day, Ruth!
http://rutheh.com/2010/05/30/my-bookshelf/#comment-21789
great poem intro:
“You tell me my old books smell
like a Goodwill bin.
Old dust and stick your nose in,
breathe…”
P.S.:
even new books smell!
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Thank you for making the link, Frizz 🙂 The contents look good, I’ll check it out later today. Have a great day!
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I wonder about that too. I read almost everything online.
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Frizz, you do what you believe in…what you are passionate about…just as Playamart – Zeebra Designs said. I purchased a copy. Although receiving it on July 25th or so, I will not get to reading it until I pass through summer. Thanks for providing your wonder guitar music. I have been listening to them in the studio. I cannot tell you now which ones I favor because I don’t know the names right at the moment. When I have more time to focus, I’ll send you comments. Best to your summer 🙂
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oh dear Allyson in New York, now you have two of our books – and we have none of your top jewellery, because we have no money. At least, the second book, without any photos, is much cheaper than our New York photo book!
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Dear Frizz, I love to purchase books that I am interested in, so please do not worry about my growing Frizztext fan collection 🙂 I believe that it is a human endeavor to pass forward good in life. Even with all the human mendacious acts that happen, it comes back to one in other ways. I was brought up that way. Throughout my life, I have found this philosophy to be true.
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The video was touching.
The electronic conveniences are nice. Although I have an iPad, which I like very much, no amount of kindles, iPads, Nooks, etc., will ever replace the feeling of holding a real book in my hand. Did we ever imagine that the craft of making books would dwindle or die? It’s amazing what we take for granted.
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