Source: FoxNews.com Written in "alien" characters, illustrated with sketches, and dating back hundreds of years, the Voynich Manuscript has puzzled cryptographers, historians and bibliophiles for centuries. And now the mystery has finally come to an end, according to a businessman from Finland named Viekko Latvala, a self described "prophet of god," who says he has [...]
Here is an interesting book about book collector Roy Vernon Sowers. It is a good read about a man obsessed by books - like many of us...
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Welcome to Rare Book School, summer camp for bibliophiles. Tucked in the basement of the cavernous main library at the University of Virginia, the school is an annual five-week homage to the printed page.
Book Thief Swallows Rare Book
“If you’re on an airplane, a Kindle is convenient because you can take hundreds of manuscripts with you to read. Digitalization makes the text available to more people, but it cannot provide the full experience of a book,” he said. “A digital book is not a book at all.”
I thought I'd give yaw'll a firsthand look at EBay book fraud and its persecution. A few years ago (about 3 years, I think) I bought a "signed" first edition copy of Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions.
Scientist working at University of Arizona on four 1mm X 6mm sections from four different pages in the manuscript using the carbon dating process, which is where scientists measure the amount of radioisotope Carbon 14 which occurs naturally in objects and decays at a predictable rate, making it possible to use it to date things.
What makes the Voynich Manuscript of particular interest is that no one has yet been able to read it in full; the text is written in a code that some of the world’s greatest cryptographers and linguistics experts have failed to decipher.
