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Thursday Jan 28, 2010
Episode 43: Luke sum ipse patrem te
Thursday Jan 28, 2010
Thursday Jan 28, 2010
The iPad, the Kindle, the Nook, the Sony Reader. Will real paper books disappear into cloud libraries? Are this centuries bookbinders dealing not with leather, wax, pulp, and inks but oughts and ones? Perhaps. Is this bad? Not for me. I enjoy binding and I enjoy giving my bound books to people. But who reads old books anyway? Old people?
Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne has been a burden on my back for sometime. It's not an easy read but it's an enjoyable read. I have even written a novel about a printer whose main goal in life is to print Tristram Shandy. (It is also a love story between a young woman and an older man. Very unique in the literary world.) My book, Tristram's Printer, will soon be available only through Tedorigawa Bookbinders. Maybe. Maybe this year.
Goals, then, for this year are to print, bind, and edit (not necessarily in that order, I hope) three novels and offer them up for sale: Calvado, The Priests of Hiroshima, and Tristram's Printer. The first two have been bound but no covers; and they haven't been edited. The third one is in the printing/sewing stage. Maybe it will be edited before sewing and binding?
By the way, the title of this episode is Latin for
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