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Who stole my Bookcrossing?
Jan. 16th, 2004 08:26 pmI can't connect to the Bookcrossing site! I can get everywhere else - so I hope it's just that they are "improving" things, as sometimes happens. But it is a bit frustrating, as I came home to find a surprise book from idioteqnician - and I can't journal it. And a wonderful packet of information about Kyoto from fuji, and I can't send her a PM to thank her! I also had to answer a PM sophie100, but fortunately I have her "real" e-mail, so that didn't need to wait.
I suppose I'll have to go read instead ;-)
There was an opening at the Center for Book & Paper Arts, photographs of books (great show, by the way), so of course I stopped by. And discovered I have Bill D. to thank (at least in part) for my trip to Japan! I mentioned I was going, and he said, "I know". They had called the Center to ask about me! I knew Nancy was being picky about who she's taking, but didn't expect this (though it makes sense). So I will have to find something very nice for Bill when I'm there (I did tell him he's on the very short list of people I'll accept orders from!)
My new TV/VCR/DVD is being delivered tomorrow. So when I was at the Center I picked up the order form for the catalog from the Judaica exhibit. I wasn't going to get it because it's a DVD! Though perhaps, subconsciously, that was part of the impetus behind my getting one. It's very weird, though. I already have a couple of catalogs of book shows on CD-ROMs, and now I'm getting one on DVD. Shouldn't book catalogs be books? And yet the CD and DVD technology allows for so much more flexibility in viewing the books - it's possible to get many more views that you could possibly do in a reasonably priced and sized book. But will these still be viewable in 15 years? or 25? What about 50 or 100?
I suppose I'll have to go read instead ;-)
There was an opening at the Center for Book & Paper Arts, photographs of books (great show, by the way), so of course I stopped by. And discovered I have Bill D. to thank (at least in part) for my trip to Japan! I mentioned I was going, and he said, "I know". They had called the Center to ask about me! I knew Nancy was being picky about who she's taking, but didn't expect this (though it makes sense). So I will have to find something very nice for Bill when I'm there (I did tell him he's on the very short list of people I'll accept orders from!)
My new TV/VCR/DVD is being delivered tomorrow. So when I was at the Center I picked up the order form for the catalog from the Judaica exhibit. I wasn't going to get it because it's a DVD! Though perhaps, subconsciously, that was part of the impetus behind my getting one. It's very weird, though. I already have a couple of catalogs of book shows on CD-ROMs, and now I'm getting one on DVD. Shouldn't book catalogs be books? And yet the CD and DVD technology allows for so much more flexibility in viewing the books - it's possible to get many more views that you could possibly do in a reasonably priced and sized book. But will these still be viewable in 15 years? or 25? What about 50 or 100?
