Saturday, May 4, 2024

Paper (currently reading)

Paper


Paging Through History

by Mark Kurlansky                   

‎W.W. Norton & Company 2016

416 pages

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Monday, April 29, 2024

The Age of Wood

The Age of Wood


Our Most Useful Material and
the Construction of Civilization

by Roland Ennos                   

‎Scribner 2021

Paperback version

336 pages

5/3
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Every Tool's a Hammer

Every Tool's a Hammer


Life Is What You Make It

by Adam Savage                  

Atria Books 2019

Library loan ebook

321 pages

4/26

The cover of this paperback/ebook version immediately brought to mind the cover of The Pencil:


A History of Design
   and Circumstance

by Henry Petroski          

Knopf 1989

354 pages


I’ve watched a number of Adam Savage's recent videos (apropos to nothing, he has a stapler collection - I have a stapler collection), but as someone who does less than 1/10,000 of what he does, I don’t know what I was expecting from his book. What I got—among many other things—was a whole new way to organize my editing process, and a new appreciation for my own less than 1/10,000 projects.

I’m buying this one in hardback to put in a place of honor in the builder/how-to/maker section of my library.


Cover of hardback version          

Atria Books 2019

288 pages

Next, I’m trying out the type of pencil he has in his pocket (pencil nerds please see "The Pencil" book reference above), the PaperMate Sharpwriter #2. Well, the lessor modern version of it anyway. He made a whole video about it. Go watch, enjoy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLwo1kOcwxs

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Ali's Well That Ends Well

Ali's Well That Ends Well


Tales of Desperation and
   a Little Inspiration

by Ali Wentworth                       

Harper 2022

Library loan ebook

208 pages

4/23
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Go Ask Ali

Go Ask Ali


Half-Baked Advice
(And Free Lemonade)

by Ali Wentworth                       

Harper 2018

Library loan ebook

224 pages

4/21
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Happily Ali After

Happily Ali After


And Other Fairly True Tales

by Ali Wentworth                       

Harper 2015

Library loan ebook

240 pages

4/19
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Ali in Wonderland

Ali in Wonderland


And Other Tall Tales

by Ali Wentworth                            

Harper 2012

Library loan ebook

272 pages

4/17
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