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2010-12-03 (Friday)

Writing

  1. Falling out of love

    The final volume of Samuel Pepys’ diary has been a disappointment. Not due to the content, but due to the shoddy printing.

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Photos

  1. Standard and "print-on-demand" books compared

  2. Lightning Source UK Ltd

  3. "Print-on-demand" version

  4. Standard printing

  5. 1667 and 1668-9

Tweets

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    Phil Gyford @philgyford • • #

    First mince pie of the year. Merry Christmas @benterrett!

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    @danhon The chain is broken, repeat, the chain is broken. I am calling off the dogs.

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    @Thayer @jaggeree @revdancatt Fit the message to the medium. An automated blog post tweet is dull. Tweets are better when conversational.

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    Phil Gyford @philgyford • • #

    (Tell me if posting links to blog posts is annoying. Sometimes I think it is, but it seems to be the Done Thing these days.)

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    Phil Gyford @philgyford • • #

    I am annoyed about @HarperCollinsUK's paper and printing and have written angry words: http://bit.ly/fqj90D So there.

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    ted mills @tedmills • • #

    I had to explain to a student that " melodrama" does not mean the drama is like, mellow. "I thought it was quite exciting," he said.