EFDbackup: Literati roundup: “13 images that helped define the look of the electronic age…

Gallery: 13 images that helped define the look of the electronic age

Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow

A full-color, large-format exploration of the electronic age, INSIDE THE MACHINE explains the history of technology through over 150 images from magazines, industry pamphlets, and out-of-print books to showcase the powerful graphic and artistic representations of this burgeoning field.

A Look Inside Hannah Arendt’s Personal Library: Download Marginalia from 90 Books (Heidegger, Kant, Marx & More)

Open Culture by Josh Jones

It does seem possible, I think, to overvalue the significance of a writer’s library to his or her own literary productions. We all hold on to books that have long since ceased to have any pull on us, and lose track of books that have greatly influenced us.

One of World’s Oldest Books Printed in Multi-Color Now Opened & Digitized for the First Time

Open Culture by Dan Colman

Now free for the world to see on the Cambridge University Digital Library are some treasures from the library’s Chinese collections. Fire up that time machine called the Internet, and you can start perusing:

Obama’s summer reading list is heavy on the Pulitzer Prize winners

Mashable! by Brittany Levine Beckman

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