Beyond Seven Review No. 81
Posted on Wed 20 October 2021 in Beyond Seven Review
Book and publishing history 🚟
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Tilting titling? (Dan Sperber's Blog)
On Jack Goody and book spine text orientation
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Book Marks: The book review aggregator
Aggregator of (selected) published book reviews. Focuses on new books. Seems to tilt towards Big 4 and prominent indies.
Information and Geisteswissenschaften 🏺
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Announcing a draft guide for identifying public domain serial content
Good work by John Mark Ockerbloom. Here's the start of the post, "Back in June, I announced that we had completed an inventory of all serials with active copyright renewals made through 1977, based on listings in the Copyright Office’s Catalog of Copyright Entries. At the time, I said we’d also be releasing a draft of suggested procedures for using the information there, along with other data, to quickly identify and check public domain serial content."
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Aozora Bunko (青空文庫)
Project-Gutenberg-like for Japanese texts. (Wikipedia page)
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