Reference texts.

I've been researching the beginnings of modern museums.

Good, Form & Spectacle is a London design firm focussed on cultural heritage projects. This list represents our growing research library.

Books that stand out for their lovely pictures.

Books I can study freely. Thanks, Internet Archive!

Maybe one day, I will build a cabin in the California woods.

Or am reading it. (List started 16 Feb 2011.)

There's really nothing wrong with 100 year old recipes.

Fascinating and disturbing treatises on women in the late 19th Century.

In another life, I'd be writing a thesis on contemporary monsters as responses to Internet culture and the Internet's effect on humanity. I am researching monstrous cultural theory in lieu of actual study.

All the specific editions listed on http://www.zamoranoclubla.org/zam80/, where possible. See http://openlibrary.org/subjects/zamorano_80 too, for Work-level list.

Note: I've included the English translation of The Voyage round the World by Otto von Kotzebue because the original 1821 German editions are hard to navigate.

Reading semi-random things for a talk at University of Minnesota about their Humanities 2.0 stuff.

For layout tweaks

Books I purchase (or borrow) in 2011. If only there was a webcam-y, app-y way to maintain it automagically!

Transcribed from http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,949309,00.html

One of my favourite Twitter accounts is @CoverSpy, which documents what people are reading on public transport in New York City.

Occasionally discovered gems of library description or administration ephemera.

For Edward as he improves the Open Library workfinder.

Transcription of: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jun/14/100-greatest-non-fiction-books

Collation of http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/may/14/science-fiction-authors-choice

From The Independent. Slight UK bias, but useful nonetheless.

This is a book list collated in Chapter 13 of "Your Power As A Woman" published in 1957.

Collecting women-related subjects together.

Researching books as social objects for a presentation I'll be giving at the 2011 Microsoft Social Computing Symposium in New York.

Variety of books, many about computer/web stuff, by authors I've met in person.

There are many. Here are a few.

Happy to lose myself in reading about that.

Various correspondence collections, also looking for writing about letter-writing.

See http://cs404.org