Esses dias estou meio preguiçosa, atabalhoada com tantas coisas para fazer e pensar, então não vou falar muito…| I’m kind of lazy this days, with so many things to do and think, so I’m not going to talk much…
Campanha “Preferência Para Leitores” | Campaign “Preference for Readers”
Imprima seu adesivo e saia colando por aí. | [...]

Literature for Free

Internet should help us getting in touch with other literatures, but we know it’s not always like this. Anyway, exceptions are growing:
- This month issue from the Words Without Borders brings Modern Chinese Literature translated into English (and some Spanish and Romanian as well).
- The American Small Beer Press is publishing a collection of short [...]

Through the The Bonefolder website (see the previous post) I run to this acronym, LOCKSS, which stands for Lots Of Copies Keep Stuff Safe. Cool name, isn’t it? And it “is an international non-profit community initiative that provides tools and support so libraries can easily and cost-effectively preserve today’s web-published materials for tomorrow’s readers”.

The Bonefolder

Coming back to the roots of this blog: the new issue of The Bonefolder – an e-journal for the bookbinder and book artist is already available.
About the magazine:
“The Bonefolder, an outgrowth of the Book Arts Web, is a peer-reviewed “open-access” e-journal for bookbinding and [...]

Esse tal de copyright

Picture by James Glover (under creative commons)

Depois de passar três dias ouvindo gente prevendo o fim das leis de copyright tais como conhecemos hoje e de lembrar das histórias que envolvem a obra da Cecília Meireles e do Guimarães Rosa, é realmente para parar e pensar: porque mesmo existe esse tal de copyright?

Just for fun, other use for this so old-fashion media. And you can make it at home, learn how to here.
Outro uso para esse meio-de-comunicação tão fora de moda. E você pode fazer em casa, aprenda como aqui.
Via craft magazine.

Australian Digital Collections

“Explore the Australian story through captivating pictures, rare historical maps, early Australian sheet music, manuscripts belonging to famous Australians, selected printed works from our Australian and overseas collections, and selected audio recordings of our oral history and folklore items. [...] Overall, a total of 129 088 collection items across all collection formats [...]

Open Letter on Print on Demand

Official statement by Amazon.com at 31th March.
According to booktwo.org: “Yes, they’re serious, and yes, they’re bad people.”