Friday, February 6, 2015 Submitted by Gary Frost What are the consequential types of book intervention? Can the interventions found in books be allotted to some kind of categories? We observe interventions of (1) production, (2) marketing and retailing, (3) interventions of users and owners, of (4) library re-fabrication and book processing, and interventionsContinue reading “Book Intervention Types: A Construct of Five Types”
Author Archives: John Fifield
Book Readers’ Intermingling Paper and Screen
Wednesday, December17, 2014 Submitted by Gary Frost Generic distinctions between a screen and paper display (of the same image) include the recto/verso (duplex) and left/right (spread) attributes of paper and the persistence and accuracy of navigation of those features. Further complexity of the multiple display navigation is presented in book format (again same content forContinue reading “Book Readers’ Intermingling Paper and Screen”
Books of the 21st Century
Monday, October 27, 2014 Submitted by Gary Frost The making of printed books has continued quietly across each turn of each century since the fifteenth …except for one. With the turn of the twenty-first century a sudden displacement has taken place. Thereafter books need not be something somewhere; books could be effervescent, appearing and disappearing,Continue reading “Books of the 21st Century”
Library Science
Wednesday, October 15, 2014 Submitted by Gary Frost Feral Seminar, 2014 Resilience of Book Transmission Please join us for open forums, Thursdays, 2:00—3:30, Fall Semester Room 2058, Main Library We have recently added an important reference for our wide study of resilience of book transmission. This is philology[1] and the legacy of comparative study ofContinue reading “Library Science”
Cognitive Factors
Wednesday, October 8, 2014 Submitted by Gary Frost Feral Seminar, 2014 Resilience of Book Transmission Please join us for open forums, Thursdays, 2:00—3:30, Fall Semester Room 2058, Main Library As we arrive at the cognitive sciences we find a pivot in our studies of resilience in book transmission. This is a pivot from givens toContinue reading “Cognitive Factors”
Don’t Be the Bunny
Friday, September 26, 2014 Submitted by Gary Frost Feral Seminar, 2014 Resilience of Book Transmission Please join us for open forums, Thursdays, 2:00—3:30, Fall Semester Room 2058, Main Library We have a favorite dictum as we study and manipulate the experience of media. This is “don’t be the bunny” or otherwise fall victim to contendingContinue reading “Don’t Be the Bunny”
Imposition and Format for Book Description
Wednesday, September 17, 2014 Submitted by Gary Frost There can be confusion regarding description of paper books; the given book needs description of how it was initially made as well as how it appears. Either perspective can unfairly dominate. Makers best describe their own work, but, perhaps, they cannot. Papermakers, printers and bookbinders would alsoContinue reading “Imposition and Format for Book Description”