Hey Tiff, great to see this up & running. I’m not at home at the moment, but when I get there I’ll have a look at my shelf and see if I have anything to add or suggest. For the moment, how do we add reviews?

Edit: Oh, right, you mentioned to email such bits to you. Gotcha.

Great news! Thank you.

hhp

Excellent, Jason. I look forward to adding any content you send my way.

BTW, this is only an interim solution. There will be a whole new area, hopefully with tagging capabilities of somesort, in the next year.

Excellent! There’s a backlog of new books since this went down.* Maybe you could have a ‘new books’ section and encourage people especially to do reviews there…

Will this be linked to the ‘resources’ section eventually?

*eg

Printers Type in the Twentieth Century by Richard Southall.
Designing Type, Karen Cheng.

Hrant, You are welcome.

William, I’m not sure how we will handle the NEW books. When I add a book to the section it would be added to the top of the page, perhaps I could add the word NEW.

I was wondering about the stacking order; obviously it would be nice if the lists were alphabetical (by title?), but if books are on multiple lists this would require some scripting.

Any chance of a “Book Design” section? (Not strictly typography, but not quite Book Arts or Printing Arts.)

Also, perhaps a Magazines section listing currently published design magazines (CA, Print, etc.)?

Tiff, I’m home now and am brimming over with stuff to compile & send you. Get ready…

Thanks Tiff and the folks back there in the corner with notes stuck to their chairs who do the hard work!

ChrisL

Yes the overlap is a result of being able to tag, sort of, in the previous version of Typophile Books.

We can definitely add a book design section.

Alphabetical by title would be good.

Magazines, another good idea.

Jason, you send and I’ll post.

Great job, massive respect.

I am glad that the “29635” post had no reply on the forum, so if you’d like to add
the Calligraphy section, you can sort out my references at :
http://www.as8.it/edu/bibliography-C.html

A few thoughts from my dreams last night. (Yes, after I work on something intensely for a few days it haunts me in my sleep.) I hope you all don’t mind helping me.

- I’d like to remove overlap. If you see books that are overlapped, please point them out to me. (I’ll look as well.) We’ll vote on where they belong for real.
- I do want to add Book Design and Calligraphy/Lettering is a good idea too.
- If you see a book in one section and feel it belongs elsewhere please tell me.
- Again, don’t be afraid to point out errors. For instance, I realize that all of the books attached to Robin Kinross have the wrong publisher. (This will be fixed immediately.)

Jason, you are a model citizen. Everyone please note how Jason sent me information to be added and follow in his noble footsteps.

Designing Type
by Karen Cheng
Publisher: Yale University Press; (April 3, 2006)
Paperback: 224 pages
ISBN: 0300111509
Price: $29.95 (list price)
http://www.amazon.com/Designing-Type-Karen-Cheng/dp/0300111509/sr=1-1/qid=1165538233/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-2314699-9678433?ie=UTF8&s=books

Jason Dewinetz: While I’ve read a few comments both positive & negative on this book, as a reader with no formal training in type design I’ve found the book very useful towards a better understanding of how digital glyphs are put together, based one on another, etc. A well produced & finely illustrated publication.

I realize there have been threads dedicated to horror of Amazon. Please consider that in this instance it is serving a very real and good purpose. When you purchase from Amazon you are doing a small part to support Typophile. So, consider if you are going to suggest a book please check to see if it is available on Amazon first. Then, if it isn’t please do give the link for the other site.

This could be a great resource for everyone looking for books. I hope you are all as enthusiastic about it and ready to participate! Go team!

> Also, perhaps a Magazines section listing currently published design magazines (CA, Print, etc.)?

If you check out Typowiki’s magazine section, I’ve entered a good deal of info there. Maybe you could transfer it to a new link?

Miss Tiffany - this is wonderful. Now when are you going to open the Typophile credit department? This is a good way to go broke fast… :)

peace