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An update to an earlier post.
Dec. 10th, 2003 03:32 pmI know not many of the people who read this journal, if any, will be near Cambridge at the moment, but I found something that makes quite a succinct update to my post here about book defacing.
The Cambridge University Library has an exhibition on at the moment called "Marginalia and Other Crimes", about various examples of damage done to their books. The exhibition itself is, of course, in the library, but pictures are available online, at this site. I particularly like the examples of books dropped in the bath, giving an example of something that is not okay to read in the bath, and something else that is okay to read there.
Yes, well, the UL does tend to talk down to its users. I can't say I blame them, though - the people who don't deface books are the ones who don't come to the library's attention. The ones they notice are the people who use highlighters on books they don't own, or pull off the type in books that are over a century old by using post-it notes.
On a slightly more positive note, I would like to advertise a friend's Nanowrimo entry. Yes, November's over, and this person did manage to get to 50,000 words (unlike me - I'm still stuck at about 31,000, and with the amount of essays I have yet to do it's looking increasingly unlikely that I'll get any more of it done this year). But he's still not finished! It's quite a light read, about a group of adventurers on a trip through the jungle, and goes by the name of "Through Jungle with Crossbow, Boot and Elly". And it can be found here, linked to on the main page.
The Cambridge University Library has an exhibition on at the moment called "Marginalia and Other Crimes", about various examples of damage done to their books. The exhibition itself is, of course, in the library, but pictures are available online, at this site. I particularly like the examples of books dropped in the bath, giving an example of something that is not okay to read in the bath, and something else that is okay to read there.
Yes, well, the UL does tend to talk down to its users. I can't say I blame them, though - the people who don't deface books are the ones who don't come to the library's attention. The ones they notice are the people who use highlighters on books they don't own, or pull off the type in books that are over a century old by using post-it notes.
On a slightly more positive note, I would like to advertise a friend's Nanowrimo entry. Yes, November's over, and this person did manage to get to 50,000 words (unlike me - I'm still stuck at about 31,000, and with the amount of essays I have yet to do it's looking increasingly unlikely that I'll get any more of it done this year). But he's still not finished! It's quite a light read, about a group of adventurers on a trip through the jungle, and goes by the name of "Through Jungle with Crossbow, Boot and Elly". And it can be found here, linked to on the main page.
