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Computing, archiving, digital media, and a bit of historical speculation

Friday, 17 April 2026

Swapping out my old Thinkpad for an Acer Travelmate

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

Prayer and hymn books

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 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...
Friday, 10 April 2026

Joseph King's cheap circulating library in Norwich

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  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...
Tuesday, 7 April 2026

Dust jackets

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 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...
Saturday, 14 March 2026

Travels with an old surface

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 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...
Friday, 27 February 2026

A morning of puzzles

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  Today at the Athenaeum was most definitely a day of puzzles. I’m continuing to work on either those books which were published anonymous...
Tuesday, 17 February 2026

A generic e-reader

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 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' ...
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Been an IT professional, a field ecologist and tried my hand at research in psychology. Now retired, I'm a blogger, traveller, pontificator and classical and early medieval history geek - I'm also known to enjoy a decent pinot noir, and late night conversations about central Asia, the Russian Revolution and just about anything else. Some claim I know too much about some things, some that I know too little.
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