the personal blog of Alex Ingram
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Well, maybe I should stop now. Nah. I’ve been collecting out of date non-fiction second hand for some time now, and above is my current collection of Penguin Pelican books displayed atop my recently acquired terrifying duvet cover. What makes me so fascinated with these? you might ask. To an extent I’ve bought more as [...]
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Seeing as I posted the first comment on Tom Harris’s blog post that made the front page of the Daily Mail and have had a streaming torrent of (ooh) eight visitors here’s some comment on his points on my own blog. I agree with Tom that it is sad that optimism is rare. In my [...]
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Then you might like Librarything‘s features The Suggester and far better(er) The Unsuggester. As you can imagine taking actual (publicly declared admittedly) collections of books and analysing similarity throws up some things you’d expect. So for example Blankets by Craig Thompson leads to an ordered list starting with his other works before widening out to [...]
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2005 was a strange year. It’s the first full year I’ve had down here in London, and it is still down here as I’m only just getting used to it being my home rather than Edinburgh. Of the many things I’ve done in 2005, the most rewarding has been the baking. So it was only [...]
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