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Cataloging in Publication data

I’ve always wondered what those mysterious “Cataloging in Publication” lines at the front of many printed American books meant. I knew they had something to do with the US Library of Congress, and they seemed to be an indication of where to file the book. They generally include the name of the author and some […]

AUSTRALIA_HISTORY and other book subjects

I continue to be fascinated by attempts to categorize things. The oddness of category choices in many taxonomies tends to make me think of Borges’s Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge and Sei Shonagon’s lists of things; for more on those topics, see column vvv: My Favorite Things. Here’s another taxonomy that I find amusing; as […]