Stuff, geeky stuff

 Last week, Ausnet left the Athenaeum in the dark (literally) while they carried out preventative maintenance in advance of winter. Up till ...

 Today I started work creating stub catalogue entries for those prayer books and hymn books we decided to record and save. Needless to say t...

  One of our items is an 1841 edition of The Heiress and and her Suitors, which has a stamp from Joseph King’s Cheap Circulating Library i...

 Earlier today I tooted a link to an online article on the history of dust jackets  - you know, these paper sheets folded around hardback bo...

 We’re mid way through a road trip out west in the south west corner of WA. Not the best time – what with the chaos in the Middle East and d...

  Today at the Athenaeum was most definitely a day of puzzles. I’m continuing to work on either those books which were published anonymous...

 I've just bought myself a generic e-reader.  It came from ebay for around a hundred bucks. If you search on ebay for 'ereader' ...