A History of the Book in 100 Books

History of the Book in 100 Books: The Complete Story, from Egypt to E-Book | Roderick Cave, Sara Ayad

“Books about books” are some of my favourites (and I don‘t think I‘ve posted this shelf before? 🤔).

#BooksAboutBooks
#ReadingResolutions

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ephemeralwaltz Beautiful!! 6y

vivastory Phenomenal! 6y

elkeOriginal I WANT!! 6y

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Captivatedbybooks Love the kitty 6y

emilyhaldi I want the books AND the cat! 🖤 6y

Leftcoastzen Great selections! 6y

batsy Great selections and cat 🐱 6y

Reviewsbylola Every single post of your books gives me shelf envy. Some day I‘m coming over. 😂 6y

saresmoore 😍 6y

Nute Love this shelf!!! 6y

RohitSawant 😍😍 6y

ofbooksandme I love the remarkable manuscripts one. As a Literature student I looooove books about books 😍 6y

Zelma Love it. 😍 6y

UwannaPublishme 😍👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 6y

rubyslippersreads Beautiful books and Bast! 😻 6y

KikiLovesBooks I love Remarkable Books! 6y

RaimeyGallant Fun shelf! 6y

LeahBergen @ephemeralwaltz @vivastory @elkeo @Captivatedbybooks @Leftcoastzen @batsy @saresmoore @Nute @rohit-sawant @Zelma @UwannaPublishme @KikiLovesBooks @RaimeyGallant Thanks, all! 😘😘 6y

LeahBergen @emilyhaldi @rubyslippersreads There‘s another Bast cat at the end of this shelf. They make quite the bookends. 😂😂 6y

LeahBergen @Reviewsbylola Come over!!! Wouldn‘t it be FUN? 😘 6y

LeahBergen @ofbooksandme It‘s such a lovely book! I just got it for Christmas. 😍 6y

Reviewsbylola Amazing!! I would love it. 😄 6y

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa

A History of the Book in 100 Books | Roderick Cave, Sara Ayad

#192019 #192019Challenge

Hear's my blank one if you want to screenshot it and place your reads over the dates @Gezemice (or anyone else for that matter). I used a free app called Over to place the covers over this background.

Mommamanzi Awesome!!!!!! Thank you 😃 7y

SharonGoforth Thanks!! 7y

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @Mommamanzi @SharonGoforth You are welcome! 7y

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Laura317 Ooooh! I will have to try this app! Thanks, @Riveted_Reader_Melissa 7y

FantasyChick This is great! 7y

Gezemice Oh so cool! Thank you so much! Now I will have to do this, lol. So starting date is when I started on Litsy? That would have been April 2016. 7y

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @Gezemice It's really open ended, I started from when I first heard of it which wasn't long after I joined Litsy.... and then I think I counted any I'd read that year....so I personally used books that I've read in 2016 and 2017. Feel free to use the same if you'd like. 7y

Gezemice Well I started reading a lot in May 2015, when I quit my full time job... seems like a good time to go back to. I kind of count all my recent reading from there... 7y

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @Gezemice If I go back in to 2015 I can add a few more... 🤔 7y

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @UrsulaMonarch Here‘s the background image if you want a screen shot to use. 6y

UrsulaMonarch @Riveted_Reader_Melissa thank you!!! 6y

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @UrsulaMonarch You‘re welcome 6y

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @AudreyMorris Here it is ⤴️ (edited) 6y

DreesReads Thank you!! 6y

Riveted_Reader_Melissa Here you go @GarthRanzz 6y

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa

A History of the Book in 100 Books | Roderick Cave, Sara Ayad

Well... I haven't done my July wrap up yet, but I did spend some time actually getting my #192019 reading challenge in order. I just went ahead and added the rest of my Potter re-read because I know I'll finish them, and hopefully I'll be able to add the rest of the LOTR as we finish them up with #LOTRChapterADay. But at least now I have some idea where I stand, and where I'll need to focus the rest of this year and next year.👍
#192019Challenge

Marchpane

readinginthedark Awesome! I need to do this! You're starting from 1920? 7y

Marchpane Love the graphic - looks great! 7y

Cinfhen Great graphics 😍😍😍 7y

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa @readinginthedark Yes, the challenge is to read one book published each year from 1920 through 2019 7y

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @Marchpane @Cinfhen Thank you! And thanks @llwheeler for the idea!👍 (edited) 7y

llwheeler @Riveted_Reader_Melissa Ooh love your graphic 😊👍 and awesome progress on the challenge too! 7y

Gezemice That's really cool. Where did you get the graphic? Now I need to see how my books fit into this. 7y

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @Gezemice I've sucked you into another one! This one is great though, because I also get next year to work on it. I used books I read since I first heard of this challenge shortly after joining Litsy last year, I didn't go back any further than that. And I made the graphic & then used the book images from Goodreads to place over the dates. I'll post my original blank graphic & you can take a screenshot and do the same with a free ap called Over 7y

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @Gezemice And I know I mentioned this to you when we started planning our AtoZ late last year, so you can definitely count all those classics you've read this year! 7y

Gezemice @Riveted_Reader_Melissa Yeah I vaguely recall but at the time I was exhausted from two challenges and did not want to commit. I did not allow overlaps last year... I am smarter now and try to pick books that fill multiple challenges, lol. 7y

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @Gezemice Yes! Live and learn! I seem to be doing fairly well on all my Litsy based challenges... I think because I see them mentioned or tagged semi-regularly and it both reminds me or gives me ideas. My non-Litsy challenges are not looking so good. 7y

Gezemice @Riveted_Reader_Melissa My most active group on Goodreads is the ATY and they always have something fun going on so that's my main challenge that is going best. 42 of 52! I am doing Popsugar, too, that one has categories left I will have to read outside my comfort zone for. Like, a book about food. What do I do with that? Read a cook book? I don't care for food memoirs. I can't eat most of what they talk about!!! 7y

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @Gezemice I may have to join that one and try it next year, it sounds fun. Last year I read Love, Loss, and What we Ate... more memoir than food and lots of great cultural stuff from her homeland. I luckily enjoyed it, because I didn't want to read a cookbook either...

Love, Loss, and What We Ate: A Memoir

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @Gezemice This year I was thinking about reading

Food: A Love Story

Gezemice @Riveted_Reader_Melissa I think I have seen that, perhaps when you were reading it. Looks interesting 7y

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @Gezemice but yes, those categories keep coming up and if they do next year, I'm going to have to start skipping some of those challenges. 7y

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @Gezemice Yes... I think I remember you commenting on it last year. 7y

Gezemice @Riveted_Reader_Melissa Yeah, I think I might just skip ones I really don't feel like reading. I like being challenged but I don't want to waste my time on something that I don't find worthwhile. 7y

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @Gezemice I've been thinking similar thoughts... I don't mind being challenged, but it I tried that genre once in other years, or have other challenging things on my to-read list why waste time and money tracking down and buying something special. 7y

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LeahBergen

History of the Book in 100 Books: The Complete Story, from Egypt to E-Book | Roderick Cave, Sara Ayad

#RecentNonfictionRead I've been dipping in and out of this fantastic chronological history that is full of the most wonderful illustrations. From a 10th-century copy of the Iliad, Apicius' cookbook and The Book of Kells to manga and e-books ... this is a "book about books" that covers it all and does it beautifully. Oh, and it would be a good reference for the #FunFridayPhoto aliens. ? #BooksAboutBooks

RealLifeReading, Liberty

RadicalReader @LeahBergen what a remarkable looking book never seen one like this before but makes me think of

1,000 Places to See Before You Die: A Traveler's Lifelist

RealLifeReading Sounds interesting! 7y

Lindy This looks great! 7y

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