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Booklover and His Books

Name: Booklover and His Books
Author: Henry Lyman Koopman

Henry Lyman Koopman

Read by Larry Wilson, EmilyCripps, George Banfield, jenno, BettyB, Sheila, Belinda McReynolds, Arup Sen, Availle, Paul Hampton, dc, Verla Viera and KevinS · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

Chapters

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Books and Booklovers (10:19)
Fitness in Book Design (8:45)
Print as an Interpreter of Meaning (8:34)
Favorite Book Sizes (17:52)
The Value of Reading, to the Public and to the Individual (9:39)
The Book of To-day and the Book of To-morrow (9:44)
A Constructive Critic of the Book (12:45)
Books as a Librarian Would Like Them (10:08)
The Book Beautiful (24:39)
The Reader’s High Privilege (31:28)
The Background of the Book (22:32)
The Chinese Book (9:23)
Thick Paper and Thin (10:05)
The Clothing of a Book (12:15)
Parchment Bindings (4:48)
Lest We Forget the Few Great Books (24:54)
Printing Problems for Science to Solve (9:05)
Types and Eyes: The Problem (24:34)
Types and Eyes: Progress (10:25)
Exceptions to the Rule of Legibility (8:54)
The Student and the Library (10:36)
Orthographic Reform (13:01)
The Perversities of Type (19:51)
A Secret of Personal Power (10:20)