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Bookporn #33: kroch library, cornell university
this is totally overdue. While I was in the States a couple of months ago, I spent 8 days in Cornell University, otherwise known as the Mecca of Southeast Asian Studies, and discovered that the Kroch… more »
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bookporn #33: kroch library, cornell university
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Rachel wrote 1 month ago: this is totally overdue. While I was in the States a couple of months ago, I spent 8 days in Cornel … more »
bookporn #32: NYC bookstore (I): somewhere on broadway
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Rachel wrote 2 months ago: a most excellent bookstore somewhere on Broadway, NYC, whose name I can neither remember nor deciph … more »
bookporn #31: public library (II): chicago
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Rachel wrote 3 months ago: what strikes first of all, in the Harold Washington, is the space: ten floors of it, a library with … more »
bookporn #30: public library (I): NYC
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Rachel wrote 3 months ago: the NYC public library is an amazing space — skyhigh ceilings (literally!), to mute the dense … more »
Bookporn in my idle hours
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Peter Kerry Powers wrote 4 months ago: I’ve been away from the keyboard for a while. Although it’s spring break I’ve bee … more »
bookporn #29: main library, university of illinois (urbana-champaign)
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Rachel wrote 4 months ago: before I tell you that the UIUC library is the third largest [edit: academic library] in North Ameri … more »
bookporn #28: the seminary co-op bookstore, university of chicago
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Rachel wrote 4 months ago: the UC bookstore is fantastic. For one, it’s underground, and makes no attempt to hide it. Th … more »
The Perne Library: or, a counterfeit edition of Bookporn
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Nick wrote 5 months ago: Rachel over at A Historian’s Craft has a regular series of great posts on “bookporn … more »
happy birthday; or, bookporn #27: old circular library, paris
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Rachel wrote 5 months ago: 26 bookporn(s?),* 161 posts, 462 comments, 5,886 spam comments and 33,169 views later, AHC is one ye … more »
bookporn #26: browsers & bookstores, paris
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Rachel wrote 6 months ago: I’ve forgotten the name of this bookstore, but I LOVE it! — I love the crazy chaotic be … more »
Death, the Mother of All Beauty; and also of BookPorn
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Peter Kerry Powers wrote 6 months ago: Ok, a morbid start. Still, I thought I’d recall my post from a few days ago when I speculated on … more »
bookporn #25: shakespeare & co., paris
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Rachel wrote 6 months ago: Most distressingly, my access to the internet has been lukewarm throughout my trip to Paris. Even mo … more »
bookporn #24: the maxims of 'ali, SOAS brunei gallery
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Rachel wrote 7 months ago: ok, enough blasphemy: this will be the last qur’anic bookporn for a while, though you must co … more »
bookporn #23: qur'ans at the V&A, london
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Rachel wrote 7 months ago: I am fond of Qur’ans: those wondrous word-of-god recitations so conscious of themselves as boo … more »
bookporn #22: the UL, cambridge
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Rachel wrote 7 months ago: I thought, since I had written about it recently, that it was about time that I bookporned the myria … more »
bookporn #21: clare college, cambridge
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Rachel wrote 8 months ago: Floor-to-ceiling books. I think the floor of the upper balcony is actually not much thicker than th … more »
bookporn #20: st john's college library, cambridge (II)
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Rachel wrote 9 months ago: african koran, loose-leaf & leatherbound, and painfully beautiful script — best viewed la … more »
bookporn #19: st john's college library, cambridge (I)
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Rachel wrote 9 months ago: I am an unfettered sucker for spiral staircases, and the spiral staircase in St John’s library … more »
bookporn #18: home, KL
Rachel wrote 11 months ago: admittedly, this is nowhere near as glamorous as, say, gonville & caius, but I grew up in this l … more »
