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By Ellen · 23 posts · 13 views
By Ellen · 23 posts · 13 views
last updated Mar 03, 2014 03:19PM
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I found the characters in this a little flimsy and 150 pages in felt like not much was happening. It was light and jaunty but I never really got too sucked in to the "mystery" of it all. Was more interested in Manutius and the typography stuff. fun facts:
Aldus Manutius did exist in the 1500s as a publisher(preserver of ancient greek texts; introduced/ commissioned italic type (from typographer/punch cutter Griffo); credited with standardized system of punctuation, first to use a semicolon.
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Aldus Manutius did exist in the 1500s as a publisher(preserver of ancient greek texts; introduced/ commissioned italic type (from typographer/punch cutter Griffo); credited with standardized system of punctuation, first to use a semicolon.
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I'm only halfway through, and unless the ending bombs, this is already the book I wish I'd written. It's a geek/bibliophile's dream, basically a quest story in which a wizard (of the tech variety), a rogue and a warrior marshal the forces of King Hadoop and ten thousand Estonian foot-soldiers (i.e. distributed computing) to contest black-robed scholar-cryptologists for the key to eternal life. Or maybe just to save a guy's job at a very peculiar bookstore. It's a great read if you enjoy the mira
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Sep 26, 2013
Laura
marked it as to-read
Jan 10, 2014
Sarah
marked it as to-read
Twee.
