- Aug 2024
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www.youtube.com www.youtube.com
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His library contains more than 30k books for sure.
He said: "When I arrived 25 years ago, they were 30,000... I have no more time to count them."
Seems logical that his library contained more than 30k books for this reason.
( ~9:25)
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At the beginning of this video, Umberto Eco is seen walking in his library (0:48)
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- Nov 2023
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blogs.bard.edu blogs.bard.edu
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The collection represents approximately 4,000 volumes, ephemera and pamphlets that made up the library in Hannah Arendt’s last apartment in New York City. Of particular significance are the 900+ volumes containing marginal notes or lining, endnotes or ephemera, as well as many volumes inscribed to her by Martin Heidegger, Gershom Scholem, W.H. Auden and Randall Jarrell, among others.
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www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/15/style/richard-macksey-library.html
Photo of Richard Macksey's Library by Will KirkRe-read: 2023-11-10
Dwyer, Kate. “A Library the Internet Can’t Get Enough Of: Why Does This Image Keep Resurfacing on Social Media?” The New York Times, January 15, 2022, sec. Style. Https://web.archive.org/web/20230202131348/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/15/style/richard-macksey-library.html. Internet Archive. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/15/style/richard-macksey-library.html.
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- Mar 2023
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Local file Local file
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In literature genetic criticism studies the development of a work from reading notesand drafts; this approach is most feasible after the mid-19th century, once national librariesstarted amassing the working papers of authors, either by bequest or by purchase.5
National libraries began to more commonly acquire the working papers (nachlass) of authors and researchers after the mid-19th century.
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- Feb 2023
- May 2022
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www.openculture.com www.openculture.com
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https://www.openculture.com/2017/03/watch-umberto-eco-walk-through-his-immense-private-library.html
The video here is an excerpt of this longer piece which includes credits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq66X9f-zgc
[Syndication link](https://www.openculture.com/2017/03/watch-umberto-eco-walk-through-his-immense-private-library.html#comment-3249414]
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www.youtube.com www.youtube.com
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www.italofile.com www.italofile.com
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During his lifetime, Umberto Eco amassed more than 30,000 books for his personal library.
Umberto Eco amassed approximately 30,000 books over his lifetime.
Makes me wonder how many Richard Macksey accumulated?
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bibliotecabraidense.org bibliotecabraidense.org
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A seguito della procedura avviata tra la Biblioteca Braidense e gli eredi di Umberto Eco nel 2018, con la registrazione del provvedimento da parte della Corte dei Conti si è concluso infatti in questi giorni l’iter, iniziato nel 2017, di acquisizione della Biblioteca di libri antichi denominata “Bibliotheca semiologica curiosa, lunatica, magica et pneumatica” formata da Umberto Eco nel corso della sua attività di bibliofilo. La collezione antica, che conta circa 1.200 edizioni anteriori al Novecento, un patrimonio che comprende 36 incunaboli e 380 volumi stampati tra il XVI e il XIX secolo sarà custodita dalla Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense di Milano, la Biblioteca Statale che ne garantirà la conservazione, la valorizzazione e la fruizione a studenti e studiosi. Un comitato scientifico formato da cinque membri, di cui due nominati dagli Eredi Eco e due dal Mibact, si occuperà di stabilire le modalità di conservazione anche al fine di garantirne l’unitarietà della consultazione digitale.
Following the death of Umberto Eco, La Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense in Milan acquired a portion of his collection of books called the “Bibliotheca semiologica curious, lunatic, magical and pneumatic”. The collection comprised about 1,200 antique book including 36 incunabula and 380 volumes printed between the 16th and 19th centuries.
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- Apr 2022
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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- Feb 2022
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macwright.com macwright.com
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I recently attended an IndieWeb pop-up session on distributed libraries.It was thoroughly refreshing.
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- Dec 2021
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www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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“Any large room looks wrong without the appropriate number of people in it,” Mr. Byers writes. “An unused living room looks empty. An empty ballroom is absolutely creepy; it looks as if it is waiting desperately for something to happen. A library, on the other hand, is delightful when full but still especially attractive when empty.”
on the coziness of libraries
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literal.club literal.club
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https://literal.club/chrisaldrich
For experimental purposes, trying out Literal.club as a potential replacement for Goodreads.
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www.zylstra.org www.zylstra.org
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https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2021/12/federated-bookshelves-update/
This gives me an idea about how I might do this in WordPress.
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thestorygraph.com thestorygraph.com
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A potential tool to replace Goodreads.
<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Kevin Smokler</span> in Kevin Smokler on Twitter: "who else is planning a shift from @goodreads to @thestorygraph in the coming year? Eh, @readandbreathe ?" / Twitter (<time class='dt-published'>12/13/2021 20:39:28</time>)</cite></small>
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aworkinglibrary.com aworkinglibrary.comAbout1
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I began this site in 2008 in an effort to bring some structure to a long held habit: taking notes about the books I read in a seemingly endless number of notebooks, which then piled up, never to be opened again. I thought a website would make that habit more fruitful and fun, serving as a reference, something the notebooks never did. It did that handily, and more, including making space for me to write and think about adjacent things. More than a dozen years later and this site has become the place where I think, often but not exclusively about books—but then books are a means of listening to the thoughts of others so that you can hear your own thoughts more clearly. Contributions have waxed and waned over the years as life got busy, but I never stopped reading, and I always come back.
Several things to notice here:
- learning in public
- posting knowledge on a personal website as a means of sharing that knowledge with a broader public
- specifically not hiding the work of reading in notebooks which are unlikely to be read by others.
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boris.libra.re boris.libra.reLibrary1
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http://boris.libra.re/library/ Made apparently using Calibre.
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- Jun 2021
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indieweb.org indieweb.org
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=== Databases ===
Potential sources for book/library related data for importing/supporting one's own personal library:
- [[Open Library]] ([https://openlibrary.org/developers/api API])
- [https://isbndb.com/ ISBNdb] ([https://isbndb.com/apidocs/v2 API])
- [https://books.google.com/ Google Books] ([https://developers.google.com/books/terms API])
- [[Amazon]]
- [[Goodreads]]
- [https://www.worldcat.org Worldcat] ([https://www.worldcat.org/affiliate/tools?atype=wcapi API])
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code.google.com code.google.com
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Ran across via https://openlibrary.org/developers/api
OpenBook WordPress Plug-in by John Miedema OpenBook is useful for anyone who wants to add book covers and other book data on a WordPress website. OpenBook links to detailed book information in Open Library, the main data source, as well as other book sites. Users have complete control over the display through templates. OpenBook can link to library records by configuring an OpenURL resolver or through a WorldCat link. OpenBook inserts COinS so that other applications like Zotero can pick up the book data.
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www.manton.org www.manton.org
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This sounds like lots of fun. Can't wait to see what comes of it.
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Libib is a website & app that catalogs books, movies, music, and video games
This looks like a pretty solid catalog system for the cloud.
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bookriot.com bookriot.com
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Some interesting discussion of UI and functionality in the reading app/site space.
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- May 2021
- Apr 2021
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highlights.melanie-richards.com highlights.melanie-richards.com
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I LOVE the hover effects for the book covers on this site which is also a great example of someone collecting highlights/annotations of the books they read and hosting them in public on their personal website.
Melanie has written about the CSS part of the hover effect here: https://melanie-richards.com/blog/highlights-minisite/ and like all awesome things, she's got the site open at https://github.com/melanierichards/highlights. I may have to do some serious digging for figuring out how she's creating the .svg images for the covers though.
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- Oct 2020
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joelhooks.com joelhooks.com
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First up for me is adding my reading notes to the site.
Curious to see what this looks like and how it may morph over time.
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