Books
Notes about books, movies and reading.
304 posts
Libraries and the curse of knowledge
It is important to know what you know, so that you can avoid the curse of knowledge and communicate effectively.
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Roses are red .... the top love stories?
St Valentine's Day. What are the most popular love stories? Taking library holdings as a proxy for popularity.
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Names and identities: looking at Flann O'Brien
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.
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Twit-therapy .. a quick note
I am reading Bedsit Disco Queen: how I grew up and tried to be a pop star, a
memoir by
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A fragmented reading experience: locally and anecdotally speaking ..
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.
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Social reading
It seems to me I have heard the phrase ‘social reading’ more often recently.
That said, it also seems to
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Books, artifactually and anecdotally speaking ...
Artifacts
Anecdotally speaking ……. it seems to me that the artifactual and design elements
of print books are coming more to
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Children's Book Week .... Retread
[A discussion about children’s book Peepo! on Twitter prompt me to recycle this
entry from 2006]
To mark Children’
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The power of pull redux .. with examples
The power of pull
I have written about the Power of Pull
[https://www.edgeperspectives.com/pop.html] before, an
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Buying books and/or experiences: a consumer view
A while ago I was interested to observe that I had begun to resist buying paperback novels. Before that, I
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Using Wikipedia
We still don’t appear to know what to make of Wikipedia. Consider these two
cases.
First, Edward Glaeser includes
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