Books

AI-assisted document query and summarization services are becoming more common. This post compares the 'ask a PDF' outputs of several services. Overall responses were good, with reasonable variation, and no significant hallucinations. It also touches on some characteristics of AI-based services.

I was excited to discover the graphic novel Smile by Raina Telgemeier. The subject matter has strong personal resonances for me.

Understanding the discussion about AI benefits from hands-on experience of tools and services.

It is important to know what you know, so that you can avoid the curse of knowledge and communicate effectively.

St Valentine's Day. What are the most popular love stories? Taking library holdings as a proxy for popularity.

There is not a one-to-one relationship between names and people. This means that the relationship between people and their names and identities has become something that is managed in a variety of places. OCLC Research has several projects in this area.

Our reading experience is fragmented across print and digital in increasingly varied ways, which means that we have to make more choices in how we acquire books.

Artifacts Anecdotally speaking ……. it seems to me that the artifactual and design elements of print books are coming more to

[A discussion about children’s book Peepo! on Twitter prompt me to recycle this entry from 2006] To mark Children’