Powell’s ‘Eau De Bookstore’ Fragrance Offers the Scent of Bookshops
The iconic Powell’s bookstore in Portland Oregon has released a unisex fragrance to evoke the comforting scent of bookshops in a year where nobody could go to them.
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iBB Podcast #7 – Sophia Siobhan Wolohan Bogle – Save Your Books
Our seventh guest is Sophia Siobhan Wolohan Bogle, a bookbinder and book restorer from Ashland, Oregon. With her project Save Your Books, Sophia is also spending a lot of time educating people about book repair and restoration!
My Bookish Books Collection (And My Approach to Building It)
Whew! I have finally finished cataloging my collection of books, magazines, and ephemera dedicated to bookish things. If you'd like some of them to be digitized and posted here, please leave a comment below
The Great Book Scare and the Anxieties of Public Spaces
Those living at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century saw library books in a different light than us. For many, library books had the potential to transmit some of the most infectious diseases circulating in society at the time.
Used Books Shop in a 16th-Century Cellar in the Old Town of Grasse, France
My wife had a business trip to the French town of Grasse. I came along to spend a weekend here and used this opportunity to visit an old books shop there.
Boeken in de Bavo – The Annual Book Market in Haarlem
Went to Haarlem today for the annual book market - Boeken in de Bavo. The market itself is quite nice, 75 sellers (or something like that), quite a diverse choice of books. But what's makes this fair really special is the astonishing location!
Just a 1000-Book Library
During my recent visit to the Book Museum, here in Moscow, I’ve made a photo of a 1000-book library, exposed there. That’s just a small part of a much larger collection that was donated to the Russian State Library (it had another name at the moment) decades ago.
