If you like books and/or libraries, this collection of photos from the world’s most exquisite libraries stands second to none. After seeing the collection, the author said he was “shocked into a library induced euphoria.”
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Enjoy.
Can you name the last tome you finished? Can you name the last 1000+ page book you picked up and read only enough to consider its message? Hopefully, that was this morning in your Scripture time, but, aside from that, when was the last time you thirsted for a long day filled only with reading?
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Just finished watching the video of notorious pop-scientist who declares evolution fact and ridicules those who read the Bible (or any other ‘holy’ book) with any degree of seriousness.
Dawkins thinks scientists have been falling down on their responsibility to proclaim the truthfulness of evolution. He considers evolution a relatively east concept to grasp. He thinks [...]
Sentence of the day: “Fatty acids derived from pork bone fat are used as a hardening agent in crayons and also gives them their distinctive smell.” Love it.
Christien Meindertsma endeavored to follow the life and death of a single pig. Not exactly the kind of book I find myself reading, but this intrigued me.
The 2009 [...]
Think outside the book. That is what humanity did before Gutenberg and what the two-thirds world does on a daily basis today.
As we step into the digital age and all of its possibilities, we should consider what implications the digital library project has for brick-and-mortar libraries, the public interest and trust, and scholarship.
To get up [...]
Glad to see this happening: Codex Sinaiticus digitized. I had a chance to see the monks working on this project when I visited St. Catherine’s years ago.
Codex Sinaiticus comprises over 400 large leaves of prepared animal skin, each of which measures 15 inches by 13.5 inches. On these parchment leaves is written around half of the Old [...]
If you want to know what has been going on for the last 150 years at the largest seminary in the world, then you need to read this book. Greg Wills is a friend and a scholar. Most importantly, he is a servant of God who is passionate about preaching the gospel, teaching the Scriptures, [...]
When Mark Twain died in 1910, he left behind the largest collection of personal papers created by any 19th century American author. His talent for humor and story made me a fan at a young age and I still enjoy reading him today. His perspective is real and plain, characteristics often lacking in popular literature [...]
I borrowed a Kindle a while back and was fascinated by how much I enjoyed reading on the wireless device. It was a little bulky and the mechanics needed some tweaking. So, you can imagine I was thrilled to hear of the new release of the Kindle 2 with all of my objections remedied:
Slim: [...]
Pulitzer Prize winner John H. Updike died Tuesday, 1/27. Updike is known for authoring more than 50 books over the course of his decades-long career, winning two Pulitzers for his works “Rabbit is Rich” and “Rabbit at Rest.” He spent more than two decades at The New Yorker and was also noted for his poetry [...]
