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Numabookface by NAM. A mobile installation at the Ikejiri Institute of Design in Tokyo, Japan.

Numabookface by NAM. A mobile installation at the Ikejiri Institute of Design in Tokyo, Japan.

Squirrel tackling a donut. 

Love Games

17th century engravings from a book of love emblems with Latin and German mottoes and French epigrams. Can you figure out the erotic meanings behind the illustrations? You’d better brush up on your German and Latin, because the French epigrams are missing from BibliOdyssey’s post. 

From Italo Calvino’s If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler. The books you, as the reader sift through in order to find his. Books You Haven’t Read; Books You Needn’t Read; Books Made For Purposes Other Than Reading; Books Read Even Before You Open Them Since They Belong To The Category Of Books Read Before Being Written; Books That If You Had More Than One Life You Would Certainly Also Read But Unfortunately Your Days Are Numbered; Books You Mean to Read But There Are Others You Must Read First; Books Too Expensive Now And You’ll Wait Till They’re Remaindered; Books ditto When They Come Out In Paperback; Books You Can Borrow From Somebody; Books That Everybody’s Read So It’s As If You Had Read Them, Too; Books You’ve Been Planning to Read for Ages; Books You’ve Been Hunting for Years Without Success; Books Dealing With Something You’re Working on at the Moment; Books You Want to Own So They’ll Be Handy Just in Case; Books You Could Put Aside Maybe To Read This Summer; Books You Need To Go With Other Books On Your Shelves; Books That Fill You With Sudden, Inexplicable Curiosity, Not Easily Justified; Books Read Long Ago Which It’s Now Time To Re-read; Books You’ve Always Pretended To Have Read And Now It’s Time To Sit Down And Really Read Them; New Books Whose Author Or Subject Appeals To You; New Books By Authors Or On Subjects Not New (for you or in general); New Books By Authors Or On Subjects Completely Unknown (at least to you) Source: Lists of Note

From Italo Calvino’s If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler. The books you, as the reader sift through in order to find his.
  • Books You Haven’t Read;
  • Books You Needn’t Read;
  • Books Made For Purposes Other Than Reading;
  • Books Read Even Before You Open Them Since They Belong To The Category Of Books Read Before Being Written;
  • Books That If You Had More Than One Life You Would Certainly Also Read But Unfortunately Your Days Are Numbered;
  • Books You Mean to Read But There Are Others You Must Read First;
  • Books Too Expensive Now And You’ll Wait Till They’re Remaindered;
  • Books ditto When They Come Out In Paperback;
  • Books You Can Borrow From Somebody;
  • Books That Everybody’s Read So It’s As If You Had Read Them, Too;
  • Books You’ve Been Planning to Read for Ages;
  • Books You’ve Been Hunting for Years Without Success;
  • Books Dealing With Something You’re Working on at the Moment;
  • Books You Want to Own So They’ll Be Handy Just in Case;
  • Books You Could Put Aside Maybe To Read This Summer;
  • Books You Need To Go With Other Books On Your Shelves;
  • Books That Fill You With Sudden, Inexplicable Curiosity, Not Easily Justified;
  • Books Read Long Ago Which It’s Now Time To Re-read;
  • Books You’ve Always Pretended To Have Read And Now It’s Time To Sit Down And Really Read Them;
  • New Books Whose Author Or Subject Appeals To You;
  • New Books By Authors Or On Subjects Not New (for you or in general);
  • New Books By Authors Or On Subjects Completely Unknown (at least to you)
Source: Lists of Note

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