And if you like that, have you read Henry Petroski's The Book on the bookshelf? It's a history of book storage technologies -- from buckets and wall-niches for holding scrolls through modern library construction. I found it utterly fascinating, and notice things I learned in that book whenever I enter an old library (which, living in Massachusetts, happens a lot). [It was a real design challenge before electricity, to keep the stacks well-lit enough to find/shelve books without fading them or risking a fire.]
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Date: 2004-03-11 01:55 pm (UTC)And if you like that, have you read Henry Petroski's The Book on the bookshelf? It's a history of book storage technologies -- from buckets and wall-niches for holding scrolls through modern library construction. I found it utterly fascinating, and notice things I learned in that book whenever I enter an old library (which, living in Massachusetts, happens a lot). [It was a real design challenge before electricity, to keep the stacks well-lit enough to find/shelve books without fading them or risking a fire.]