Digital Books and Your Rights

A checklist for readers by the EFF. Previously: Second hand bits and bytes.

Why Paper Is Eternal

“There are modes of learning and thinking that at the moment are only available from actual books. There is a kind of deep-dive, meditative reading that’s almost impossible to do on a screen. Without books, students are more likely to do the grazing or quick reading that screens enable, rather than be by themselves with the author’s ideas.” Read: Welcome to the library. Say goodbye to the books (via). See (and print…) also this 75-page essay: “Hamlet’s Blackberry: why paper is eternal“.

Bookbinding: a tutorial

Bookbinding

Step-by-step instructions. More tutorials can be found here, here and here.