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print is dead

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on: Ace of Spades • Sun 2017 May 7, 10:19am
by: mindful webworker - grump gripe grouse

Where is the "before (or after) the book thread open thread"?? The EMT died a sudden death over an hour ago. I don' wanna read 'bout no dang musty old boooks. I cut that cable.

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Subjects: print is dead, reading

on: Ace of Spades • Sun 2016 Apr 10, 12:27pm
by: mindful webworker - I mean, busy!

navybrat: ..."book binder's tape" or "book repair tape".

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Subjects: print is dead

on: Ace of Spades • Sun 2016 Apr 10, 12:08pm
by: SMFH while circling the drain... (rlfds)

mindful,

http://www.bookrepair.us/pricing_and_services.phtml

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Subjects: print is dead

on: Ace of Spades • Sun 2016 Apr 10, 12:07pm
by: mindful webworker - book warm?

JTB: 'Hand Bookbinding' by Aldren A. Watson... [and] 'Hand Tools: Their ways and Workings'..."

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Subjects: print is dead

on: Ace of Spades • Sun 2016 Apr 10, 11:58am
by: mindful webworker - sig nature!

Sabrina Chase: ...the little booklets are "signatures".

Okay, thanks. I'm sure I knew that once, but so long ago that your answer doesn't even ring the tiniest bell.

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Subjects: print is dead

on: Ace of Spades • Sun 2016 Apr 10, 11:55am
by: navybrat (8QGte)

To mindful at 130.
They sell stuff called "book binder's tape" or "book repair tape".

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Subjects: print is dead

on: Ace of Spades • Sun 2016 Apr 10, 11:21am
by: Kindltot (6DMur)

What do you call the little bunches of pages, little
booklets, that are combined for a hardback? I'm sure there's some

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Subjects: print is dead

on: Ace of Spades • Sun 2016 Apr 10, 11:10am
by: Sabrina Chase

mindful webworker, the little booklets are "signatures". The damage you describe is pretty easy to fix, actually.

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Subjects: print is dead

on: Ace of Spades • Sun 2016 Apr 10, 11:06am
by: mindful webworker - slowly he turned, inch by inch, page by page

G'morn, y'all. I went through the morning thread, VicNews & Commentary (thanks, Vic), and scanned the rest of the comments.

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Subjects: print is dead, Washington Irving

on: Ace of Spades • Sun 2016 Jan 31, 9:17am
by: mindful webworker - living today backward

Still reading the post...

...Android Kindle app has a function that allows you to tap on a word to see the dictionary definition pop up in a separate window....

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Subjects: print is dead

on: Ace of Spades • Tue 2016 Jan 19, 9:48am
by: mindful webworker - not a gamblin' man

Afraid to stop and comment, lest I fall 100 comments behind while typing!

"Dear Penthouse Forum..."

Just read that Penthouse is ceasing print publication.

♦

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Subjects: politics, print is dead

on: Ace of Spades • Fri 2015 Dec 4, 8:46am
by: mindful webworker - untimely

naturalfake: ...Crash of magazine sales speeds up, Time Inc. down 13% in just 3 months...

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Subjects: print is dead

on: Ace of Spades • Fri 2015 Dec 4, 7:46am
by: mindful webworker - technically squeaking

Only up to comment 80, but I'll get caught up eventually.

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Subjects: computers, print is dead

on: Ace of Spades • Sun 2015 Nov 15, 8:02am
by: mindful webworker - shallow reader

Who has time for books when there's so many comments to read? (Still back on the last thread.) And why does the book thread kill the morning thread?

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Subjects: print is dead

on: Ace of Spades • Thu 2015 Nov 12, 7:55am
by: mindful webworker - mr

Bruce With a Wang!: Ms. Magazine…

They're still around? Amazing.

In print or just online a la Newsweak? (Didn't and wouldn't click the link.)

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Subjects: print is dead

on: Ace of Spades • Tue 2015 Nov 3, 9:03am
by: mindful webworker - Time Time Time is not on your side

I... I think I've caught up.

Now like the dog chasing the car and catches one, I don't know what to do. Guess I'll talk about...

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Subjects: bacon, climate, family, online communication, print is dead

on: Ace of Spades • Sun 2015 Nov 1, 11:01am
by: mindful webworker - inquiringly

Hey, bookies, I've been sitting here this morning talking with my mom about movies, politics, history, and morons on the book thread.

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Subjects: print is dead

on: Ace of Spades • Sun 2015 Oct 4, 9:11am
by: mindful webworker - in my Stetson

Bookmobile photo: Hats. Everybody wore hats.

The world as it should be.

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Subjects: hat, print is dead

on: Ace of Spades • Sun 2015 Sep 13, 9:52am
by: mindful webworker - bookstore report

I knew I'd spelled Lewis Meyer's name wrong as soon as I hit post on my previous comment, so I did some research, and here's my book report.

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Subjects: childhood memories, print is dead, Tulsa

on: Ace of Spades • Sun 2015 Sep 13, 9:08am
by: mindful webworker - one page at a time

Hey, Peace of Mind on Cherry St. I've been there.

Been a long time. Looks cozy, but smelled of incense, as I recall.

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Subjects: print is dead

on: Ace of Spades • Sun 2015 Sep 6, 9:40am
by: mindful webworker - self-authorizing

Library of Congress -- one of the many reasons we hope D.C. just gets hit by an EMP and not a hard blast.

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Subjects: print is dead, United States of America

on: Ace of Spades • Sun 2015 Aug 23, 9:23am
by: mindful webworker - have to learn to read again

I got books for my birthday yesterday.

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The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. by Washington Irving, a "secondary school" book from 1911. In pretty good shape.

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Subjects: print is dead

on: Ace of Spades • Sun 2015 Jun 28, 10:28am
by: mindful webworker - I only read it for the pictures

A funny, c/o chrissy on Polination

We lost the 6th book in the series...
http://bit.ly/lost-nr6

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Subjects: print is dead

on: Ace of Spades • Fri 2015 Apr 3, 9:16pm
by: mindful webworker - what, me dia?

Pardon me for commenting after only having read the first few paragraphs of your latest grand opus, boss.

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Subjects: Internet, LaughingStock Media, mass media, print is dead, webworker

on: Bluebird of Bitterness • Sun 2015 Jan 11, 2:48pm
by: mindful webworker

I like books. bit I'm currently trying to learn to read books all over again. Seriously, it's been a while.

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Subjects: print is dead, Mark Twain

on: Ace of Spades • Sun 2014 Dec 28, 7:18am
by: mindful webworker - on topic

I grew up in schools that still taught old-fashioned penmanship. I was terrible at cursive. Wondered, what is it about the girls that they can have such pretty hand?

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Subjects: communication, print is dead

on: Ace of Spades • Sun 2014 Oct 19, 9:37am
by: mindful webworker - comic booker

Your Life's Work: Librarian
http://bit.ly/1oiZKM9

vintage b/w ed vid c/o Weird Universe

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Subjects: print is dead

on: Ace of Spades • Sun 2014 Oct 12, 9:31am
by: mindful webworker - avid reader

What is a book, anymore, anyway? he asked academically, as a way of waving hello to the book thread

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Subjects: print is dead

on: Ace of Spades • Sun 2014 Oct 12, 9:31am
by: mindful webworker - print is dead

booooooks

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Subjects: print is dead

on: PoliNation • Mon 2014 Oct 6, 4:42pm
by: A Mindful Webworker