Virtual Gutenberg

Above Jack London Square's Bed Bath & Beyond, where you can buy a floral photo album for $9.99, a small band of dedicated book-lovers works to preserve some of the most valuable volumes in existence. Octavo Corp. and its staff of eight have revolutionized the conservation and accessibility of rare books, using technology in the service of history. This month they're starting work on the most famous book in the U.S., the Library of Congress' pristine copy of the Gutenberg Bible.
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thanks to DANGEROUSMETA!

This is a site found, forgotten, and found again. What Octavo is doing with some of these most important books is incredibly cool.

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Is J.K. Rowling propping up the book biz?
Suppose her latest were offered online

What if publishing phenom J.K. Rowling announced that she was going to publish her popular cycle's breathlessly anticipated fifth book, provisionally titled "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," exclusively as a downloadable e-book?

The snorfling sound that would result would be every soul in the book business swallowing his gum in abject, cowering terror. Rowling has thus far signed no final contract for "Order of the Phoenix" - - still tentatively scheduled for this fall -- with either her usual publisher, Scholastic, or anyone else. So the question only naturally arises: What if?
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The Absolute Elsewhere:
Fantastic, Visionary, and Esoteric Literature in the 1960s and 1970s

This is a bibliography of visionary, occult, new age, fringe science, strange and even crackpot works published between 1945 and 1988. Added to the mix are some other works which may relate to them, or at least give a sense of the spirit of the times. The main emphasis is upon works produced between 1960 and 1980, as the subtitle suggests.

I lost some time on this site. Books that I remember seeing in book stores, books that I once owned and have lost, books that I still have, and books that I still need to read. I always did wonder what happened to Pheobe Zeit-Geist.