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Monday
February 25, 2008

12:50 PM

Arion Predika
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Rescuing vintage books

The Reanimation Library rescues books destined for recycling depots, garbage dumps and dingy, dank basements. Illustration-heavy vintage textbooks, manuals, atlases, charts and other documents provide plenty of inspiration for cultural archeologists and other creative explorers. There's always a need for more images of creepy dolls, golf swings and old-school sign-language.

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Well, that's something (Jorge Luis) Borges would have certainly fallen in love with...

And then I said …
Andrei
  • Monday February 25, 2008 2:07 PM
  • Andrei

It's like a giant, indexed version of my bookshelves at home. I just wish they had hooked up a search engine for the book titles. By the sounds of it, they could use someone with some PHP and MySQL chops to help them "get the catalog out of Filemaker Pro and onto the website". Any volunteers? More information on the news page.

And then I said …
Grant Hutchinson

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