As a maintainer, it was great to feel a real part of the mission…some programs do not include you that way. As she stirs up still waters, the fox exposes more than one mystery, and discovers that additional lives are in jeopardy. Keep up with all the latest book-related goodies on our blog and interact with authors in our Twitter chats.

Ebooks fulfilled through Glose cannot be printed, downloaded as PDF, or read in other digital readers (like Kindle or Nook). I was particularly fascinated by the detailed description of the typesetting used by Johannes Gutenberg for his 42 line bible, which was, after all, the 'Star Wars: A New Hope' of books. The first delightful surprise I found inside is that, in a tribute to medieval manuscripts and early printed books, the book is rubricated—the drop caps, special characters, figure numbers, and dingbats are printed in red. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Mental Floss, BBC Culture, and on Time. The chapters on how he applied, qualified, and trained to fly “one of the world’s most unconventional flying machines” should surely be required reading, for anyone who aspires to become a U-2 pilot in the future.Shady Hollow is only one such community, where woodland creatures of all types and temperaments, from the tiny mouse to the mighty moose, live together in a successful and mostly peaceful society. The beginning of the book actually has a part that explains who each character is and their animal “form.

Oh, but the permutations that aggravating mark endured before reaching the form favored by those nuns of my training! Without Houston’s clever, friendly style, this still would have been a fascinating book, using specific symbols and marks to trace the evolution of the written word. SHADY BABY FEELS is a cute board book that features Shady Baby who is baking some cupcakes with her parents. Vera Vixen is a fox reporter who follows the murder and you spend most of the book with her while also getting viewpoints from the other characters.Partway through the chapter, I started to wonder where on earth it was all going, but as all the pieces came together, I realized what I treat I was in for. Is it any wonder that commercial typesetting companies where in serious "hurt" facing these economics. With a Curta, a practiced user could add, subtract, multiply and divide numbers by adjusting a few sliders and then turning the crank on top. We see how the coming of mass produced documents written by hand, copied and recopied, and eventually printed with presses of moveable type caused some of these symbols to be eliminated or changed to accommodate progress. But for the first few decades of the company’s existence, it specialised in electronic “instruments” such as the oscilloscopes, signal generators and other tools that an engineer might use to design or test an electrical or electronic circuit.

It’s the perfect escapist read — I read this when I was ill with COVID and it brought a huge smile to my face while reading. This is considered a “cozy” mystery, but considering there is murder and even attempted murder, there can be darker moments. The author gives a lot of space to the interrobang, which really hasn't caught on, and also has an intriguing essay on the efforts to create a sarcasm mark, which people have been attempting for a couple of hundred years.The first book in the Shady Hollow series, in which we are introduced to the village of Shady Hollow, a place where woodland creatures live together in harmony—until a curmudgeonly toad turns up dead and the local reporter has to solve the case. Causing one often to press the book open, especially paperbacks, then over time the book breaks the spine. Apparently, the author is of an age where he only experienced an "after the fact" transition, where I "lived through" the transition from dedicated type composition equipment to the era of the general purpose computer (PageMaker, Ready, Set, Go! Shady Practices is a revealing analysis of the gendered political ecology brought about by conflicting local interests and changing developmental initiatives in a West African village.