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Please browse “about no bar code” for information relating to our specialties. A Price list and FAQ will be online shortly, as will a gallery of images. Please excuse the delay – as you can see from the archives, there have been outages and issues. These are now resolved, and it’s back to business. . . . → Read More: Welcome! I have no tag cloud because I have no tags, and I have only uncategorized posts because I cannot categorize. And you can only read a few lines before having to click MORE, about which I am deeply sorry. It is not because I am deficient. No, though I certainly feel deficient after banging . . . → Read More: sorry, broken interwebs. Problem is not between the chair & screen. Nefirms had email issues this week, so if you have sent me an email at info[at]nobarcodepress.com and I have not responded, please try again. Email is now getting through, but it appears that some sent during the outage were lost or at least delayed. And, to make things even better, my brain apparently went . . . → Read More: outage This is what I call a “merkinabox”. It got named that at a birthday partly last summer. merkin-a-box It’s a small box (2 in diameter, 4 inches high, approx) with fur inside, covered in leather and sometimes also lined in paper. Some are round like the one photographed here, and some are square, . . . → Read More: merkinabox There’s a lot of recent discussion about whether or not giving free books away on the Internet is a good idea. Some say that it will affect sales negatively. Some fear that the book will be pirated. I think that’s all nonsense, especially if the book given away has already sold many many copies. . . . → Read More: free books and recreational reading I’m a bit of a book collector of special editions (sometimes they come unbound) and I’m also a fan of seeing other people’s bookbinding* work. But just TRY to find out who made what, and if there are photos for it. In a recent email conversation with a small-press publisher of fine limited and . . . → Read More: Why are bookbinders invisible? Part of the policy of no bar code is to reduce how much stuff we use, as binderies can be hugely wasteful productions. We don’t put out a huge recycling box every week – we save and reuse as much as we can. This means board and paper, but it also applies to our . . . → Read More: no bar code philosophy – reduce, reuse, and recycle When I first started bookbinding, I’d been studying the book for a long time. I grew up in a house that held thousands of books. I was first read to, then I first read by pretending to read. I have been a bookseller and graduate student in literature. I have studied how books are . . . → Read More: idea space |
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