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A New Way to Smell Old Books

I love the smell of old books. That love probably stems from wandering through libraries as a child and sorting through my father’s assorted boxes of paperback novels. There’s a certain musty, living...

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Stuff from the Science Lab Roundup: Sniffing Books and Contemplating Gravity

Sorry it’s been crickets here on the blog for a little while. We were busy sniffing books, contemplating gravity, observing our mid-digit hair and weighing our souls, of course. Also, Robert’s been...

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The Case of the Missing Library Books

I have an ongoing fight with a certain HowStuffWorks.com publisher who shall remain nameless because he 1) once worked at a library where his job was to destroy old books and 2) dogears his library...

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How Typography Works – which brings up the question, “What if YouTube used...

I will admit that I can make it through entire days (sometimes even weeks or months) without ever once thinking about typography. Yet, as mentioned in this video, it does surround us. Therefore it is...

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