The Booklover and His Books
by Harry Lyman Koopman
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About this eBook
- Author
- Koopman, Harry Lyman, 1860-1937
- Credits
- Produced by Suzanne Lybarger, Meghan, and the booksmiths at www.eBookForge.net
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- Z: Bibliography, Library science
- Subject
- Books
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 22606
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22606
- Release Date
- September 15, 2007
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Transcriber's Note:
- 2.THE BOOKLOVER AND HIS BOOKS — THE BOOKLOVER AND HIS BOOKS — BY
- 3.HARRY LYMAN KOOPMAN, Litt.D. — LIBRARIAN OF BROWN UNIVERSITY — TO THE AUTHORS AND THEIR PRINTERS WHO HAVE GIVEN US THE BOOKS THAT WE LOVE
- 4.PREFATORY NOTE
- 5.TABLE OF CONTENTS
- 6.THE BOOKLOVER AND HIS BOOKS — THE BOOKLOVER AND HIS BOOKS
- 7.BOOKS AND BOOKLOVERS [1]
- 8.FITNESS IN BOOK DESIGN
- 9.PRINT AS AN INTERPRETER OF MEANING
- 10.FAVORITE BOOK SIZES
- 11.THE VALUE OF READING, TO THE PUBLIC AND TO THE INDIVIDUAL
- 12.THE BOOK OF TO-DAY AND THE BOOK OF TO-MORROW
- 13.A CONSTRUCTIVE CRITIC OF THE BOOK
- 14.BOOKS AS A LIBRARIAN WOULD LIKE THEM
- 15.THE BOOK BEAUTIFUL
- 16.THE READER'S HIGH PRIVILEGE
- 17.THE BACKGROUND OF THE BOOK
- 18.THE CHINESE BOOK
- 19.THICK PAPER AND THIN
- 20.THE CLOTHING OF A BOOK
- 21.PARCHMENT BINDINGS
- 22.LEST WE FORGET THE FEW GREAT BOOKS
- 23.PRINTING PROBLEMS FOR SCIENCE TO SOLVE
- 24.TYPES AND EYES: THE PROBLEM
- 25.TYPES AND EYES: PROGRESS
- 26.EXCEPTIONS TO THE RULE OF LEGIBILITY
- 27.THE STUDENT AND THE LIBRARY
- 28.ORTHOGRAPHIC REFORM
- 29.THE PERVERSITIES OF TYPE
- 30.A SECRET OF PERSONAL POWER
- 31.FOOTNOTES:
- 32.INDEX
- 33.INDEX
- 34.Transcriber's Notes:
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