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Four of the Big Five Publishers Sign Letter Urging Congress to Restore IMLS Shuttering IMLS would be "an act of monumental neglect, violating the very foundation of America and what it stands for as a country," the publishers assert.

Four of the Big Five Publishers Sign Letter Urging Congress to Restore IMLS 📚
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I mean, who doesn't?

University libraries are my favorite libraries. Adding HRC to my list of libraries to visit!

UT has a Gutenberg??

Heck yes! Congratulations!

Happy belated, amigo!

An excellent source of really good, expensive eggs & a great way to invite foxes, raccoons, possums & rats into your yard.
One eve', wandered outside to check out a minor ruckus, found myself surrounded by six big raccoons, perfectly spaced like a HS marching band.
"The plot thickens," I muttered.

Now this is cool. I dig it.

And mine!

(And I 'fess up, tho you prolly surmised, her second name was inspired by another canine Minerva...
Bit of a thing with us, names from books... our previous dog, a dearly missed silver Lab, was named Boo Radley. He was a good grumpy boy.)

Fifty lbs of muscle, springs in her legs, wrapped in a pretty pretty package!

Mabel Minerva. 55% pit... 30% beagle... 7% Great Pyrenees... and a smattering of supermutt.

A grateful shoutout to @lairdbarron.bsky.social... rereading the Isaiah Coleridge books for the umpteenth time provides cold candlelight with which to push back these Stygian nights & days.

(Mabel Minerva says hello & Godspeed with your continued healing.)

@jessicamace.bsky.social

Same, it's my default and pretty much all I look at.

Do I see a hand holding the book open?
I was curious as to what, if any, tools or implements were used to hold the book in place?

Front board (cover) of the 1922 edition of "History Of The Donner Party"

On left: Pasted in obituary for Leana Charity Donner App, a daughter of Captain Donner and the last surviving member of the Donner Party. On right: title page

Pasted in obituary for Leana Charity Donner App, a daughter of Captain Donner and the last surviving member of the Donner Party.

Three contemporary postcards with various views of the Donner Party monument. (This missing fourth postcard was likely of the monument hot dog cart.) ((Just kidding.))

Some of the books in this hoard are not terribly old, but still interesting.
This 1922 ed of "History Of The Donner Party" has a pasted in obituary for the daughter of Capt Donner... the last surviving member of the party.
Plus three contemp Donner Party monument-related postcards.
💙📚 #bookhistory

Thank you!

Okay these photos are even better than the ones you shared. I am in full-on envy mode.

Beautiful. You have a poet's eye for composition.

An 1849 atlas of "the geography of the heavens".

1849 star nebulae illustrations.

1849 illustrations of Jupiter & Saturn, as seen thru telescopes.

Very much am fascinated by the scientific/historical knowledge we once possessed.
Published in 1849, this "Atlas, Designed To Illustrate Mitchel's Edition Of The Geography Of The Heavens" incl 24 star charts + illos of various star nebulae & "remarkable objects in the heavens".
💙📚 #bookhistory

Beautiful!
And by odd chance, I pulled this book two days ago...

Def'ly will need to acquire one.

Lee Brown Coye was pretty great, tho of the pulp artists I'm partial to Hannes Bok.
And Margaret Brundage, of course!

Heck yes.
In the meantime... photos, pls.

Love this a staggering amount.

Ray Bradbury's original 1948 short story "The Black Ferris" which would years later, with much additional writing & rewriting, evolve to become his 1962 novel "Something Wicked This Way Comes".

1948 -> 1962, lots of additional writing to turn this into "Something Wicked This Way Comes"!

Oh that's a beauty.

Agreed, need to locate that one again!
(Still getting organized.)

Nice sleuthing!

You didn't even ask if I would fit in your carry-on.

The leather binding of a 19th century book has broken away due to age & lack of moisture in the leather, revealing the newsprint ads used to back the spine.

A closer look at the binding of a 19th century book that has broken away due to age & lack of moisture in the leather, revealing the newsprint ads used to back the spine.

As early as the mid-1700s, and becoming more common by the early-to-mid-1800s, book spines were backed w recycled newspaper or other waste paper. You can see it here, where the 3/4 leather binding has become so brittle, it literally fell off on my table, revealing old newsprint ads.
💙📚 #bookhistory

Neither have I, and I dig it, too.