Friday, January 28, 2011
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Idle musings by a once again bookseller, always bibliophile, current copyeditor and proofreader. Complete with ramblings about biblical studies, the ancient Near East, bicycling, gardening, or anything else I am reading (or experiencing). All more or less live from Red Wing, MN
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- I'm a freelance editor/proofreader in Red Wing, MN along the Mississippi River.
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- I don't get it
- Read this and weep
- Its just plain wrong
- random stuff
- Something doesn't ring true here...
- Seen on Twitter
- How does the garden grow?
- A radical change
- Help out a scholar
- Nice thought from a new book
- One of the ramifications
- The triangular shape of the New Testament
- Jesus, actually present
- He's here!
- The binitarian shape of the NT
- Yippee!
- The Spirit
- The tax rates
- It's snowing!
- In all and through all
- Thoughts on community care
- Thought for the day
- Stuck in a rut, or still more about the gods
- Access to God
- A very public dissent
- Yes, we're still talking about the gods...
- And even more thoughts on the gods
- Are we sure that's what we want?
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5 comments:
Amen! Thankfully there are still publishers out there that (a) keep their book prices reasonable, and (b) publish books with quality binding! Like Eisenbrauns!
Thanks! The two biggest offenders are Oxford and Brill—you can't afford not to carry them! But, you feel bad for the customers.
James
James, I'm on the verge of tears at reading this.
I don't think I've seen a Brill book that isn't sewn...though they prices are painful. I recently received a massive 1300 pager from Oxford with a straight clean cut across the glued spine, cheapo paper, and casebound. It was painful to look at.
Cambridge is pretty bad too. They sew their first printings and then glue everything else after that. Can you imagine 1800 pages of the Cambridge Grammar of the English Language with notch binding? Its terrible. I keep it flat on its side on my desk. I'm scared to let it stand up on a shelf.
Mike,
This was a Brill book :( They've started using print-on-demand. It was pretty pathetic looking.
James
Oh man. That's the worst news of the day.
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