My last few posts have concentrated on the different effects of various mediums on readers, their output if you like, but, triggered by this eloquent article championing pen on paper featured recently in The New York Review of Books, I’ve been thinking about the effects of various methods of input on writers and their work. [...]
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Mind, Pen, Page
November 7th, 2011 No Comments
Tags: creative process · creativity · handmade · ideas · notebook · technology · writing
crowdfunding publications
March 22nd, 2011 No Comments
The estimable Alex Steffen, founder of Wordchanging.com, has recently announced a new project – Carbon Zero: A Short Tour of Your City’s Future – which he’s attempting to fund through the crowdfunding site kickstarter. This is a really interesting idea and something we’re keen to investigate ourselves, having had some small success with our own [...]
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City As Material Set
March 18th, 2011 No Comments
We’ve just received the complete set of 10 City As Material books back from the printers and next week we’ll be designing and making the special slipcases to hold them together and collect them into their limited edition (50 copies). The set will go on sale from the 31st March 2011 via the proboscis online [...]
Tags: city as material · collaboration · eBooks · inspiring uses · pitch in & publish · print on demand
CCI’s Library of Traces
February 21st, 2011 No Comments
Back in September Frederik posted a case study of Cambridge Curiosity and Imagination‘s use of bookleteer. They’ve continued using it as a creative and documentary resource, and in doing so have created a Library of Traces – a series of eBooks which enable both participants in their professional development workshops, and others, to follow the [...]
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Report from the field: eBooks in Sudan
February 2nd, 2011 1 Comment
A report by Julie Anderson, British Museum In January, I returned from Sudan where my co-author Salah Mohamed and I distributed the eBook we produced last autumn. Frederik Lesage has previously written about the development of our eBook, which deals with the archaeological excavations conducted in Dangeil, Sudan, as a case study for eBook usage, [...]
Tags: eBooks · education · evaluation · feedback · inspiring uses · language · learning · ppod · print on demand · sharing
bookleteer API
January 13th, 2011 6 Comments
Just before Christmas we implemented a major new feature on bookleteer – an API (application programming interface) enabling eBooks and StoryCubes to be generated by users direct from their own web applications and stored in or downloaded from their bookleteer accounts. Realising Tangible Souvenirs This has been a long-cherished ambition for us – harking back [...]
Tags: API · bookleteering · experiments · tangible souvenirs · updates
First day at Soho Parish Primary School
December 15th, 2010 No Comments
When I heard I was going to be working on creative projects that combine art and publishing with year 5 and 6′s in a primary school is Soho, I was definitely excited about working with children on a project that sounded different, creative, and fun (both for the kids and adults involved!) However, hearing that [...]
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eBook Observer – It’s all about the data
November 16th, 2010 No Comments
I know that I last promised an update on my examination of the eNotebooks, but I’ve found it necessary to take a bit of a detour before doing this which means reevaluating the kind of frameworks that are required. In the meantime, I’ve been taking stock of some potentially relevant work. Last April, I read [...]
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eBook Observer – Diffusion categories
October 27th, 2010 No Comments
Now that I’ve had the chance to examine some of the eBook projects in greater detail, I thought I’d turn to an examination of the Diffusion website. To do this, I could provide you with a summary what is available on the Diffusion website and its history. Instead, I’ve found that the group of Proboscis [...]
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Some Recent PPOD books
October 8th, 2010 1 Comment
September was a busy month here at Proboscis and on bookleteer: we sent seven books to be printed via the PPOD service as well as 10 different StoryCubes. The range of publications was very broad, from books about exhibitions and art projects to a book in Arabic about a major archaeological excavation in Sudan and [...]
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Physical Vs Virtual Library?
August 25th, 2010 No Comments
Hello! I’ve been at Proboscis for just over a month now, under the Future Jobs Fund placement scheme. I’ll be contributing regularly to the Bookleteer blog during my time here, mainly topics relating to my own interests; independent literary publications and the D.I.Y attitude that inspires them. During my research into how Bookleteer might be [...]
Tags: bookleteer · libraries · research · zines
Be2camp Brum 2010
August 11th, 2010 No Comments
Date: Thursday 12 August 2010 Time: 12.15 til 8pm Place: Library Theatre, Paradise Place, Birmingham, B3 3HQ Price: Free! On Thursday I’ll be talking about bookeleteer at Be2camp Brum 2010. Be2camp Brum is organised by Rob Annable of Axis Design Architects and is described as “an ‘unconference’ about social media, digital tools and the built [...]
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Excavations in the Temple Precinct of Dangeil, Sudan
August 5th, 2010 No Comments
This recently published eBook by Julie Anderson and Salah Mohamed Ahmed describes the progress of the Berber-Abidiya Archaeological Project in Dangeil, Sudan. Julie is Assistant Keeper of Sudanese and Egyptian Antiquities at the British Museum and Salah works for the National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums, Sudan and the eBook was written for a conference [...]
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Crowdfunded Publishing with bookleteer : a concept
July 2nd, 2010 5 Comments
Here at Proboscis we are very excited by the quality of the new PPOD service we’re offering users of bookleteer, but we also recognise that there are still economic barriers to people wanting to break into publishing their own eBooks & StoryCubes. Despite our ground-breaking service offering low-run printing (from only 50 copies per title, [...]
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Printed Ethnographic Notebooks
June 25th, 2010 1 Comment
Last summer I collaborated with James Leach (Anthropology Dept, University of Aberdeen), Lissant Bolton and Liz Bonshek (Ethnographic Dept, British Museum) to help document the visit to London of two people from Reite village, Papua New Guinea – Porer Nombo and Pinbin Sisau. Porer and Pinbin had been invited to come to the British Museum to [...]
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