User:Simon/Information Ages

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bootleg book: Information ages: literacy, numeracy, and the computer revolution

Printed: 26.11.19
Dimensions: 155x235mm
Cover stock: Clairefontaine Trophee (white) 210gsm
Text stock: Laser 80gsm
Binding: Perfect bound, cold glue
Pages: 320pp

I could only find this as a printed book available for purchase online, or to borrow from the closest library, which is the Koninklijke Bibliotheek in The Hague. So, I went to the KB in the Hague, registered a membership (costing 7,50 euro per year) and borrowed the book. I scanned the book on a photocopier back at PZI (it took about 40 mins and many apologies to those who wanted to use it), and then printed and bound it by hand using a cold glue binding technique. The file produced by scanning actually took longer to be transferred over the network than it did to scan the entire book. I optimised the file after receiving it, which produced splotchy text and images (in some places the print looked damaged by water). The cover was an impromptu decision - to use the same method. The copy was made in about 2 hours.

  • Front cover: Bootleg (left) and source publication (right)

  • Spine: Source publication

  • Spine: Bootleg

  • Spines: Source publication (left) and bootleg (right)

  • Spread: Source publication (left) and bootleg (right)

  • Spread: Images in source publication

  • Spread: Images in bootleg

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