(GERMAN: STAATSBIBLIOTHEK ZU BERLIN) IS A PROPERTY OF THE PRUSSIAN CULTURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION AND WAS FOUNDED IN 1661.

It is the largest and most important academic research library in the German speaking world.

Among the more famous items in its collection is a Gutenberg Bible, the autographs of Goethe, the world’s largest collection of Johann Sebastian Bach’s and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s manuscripts, and the original score of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No....

Years ago I had Kinkos print and bind a book I had downloaded from a university. It cost a whopping $45, and the binding agent was just a hard plastic spiral fed through holes punched in the spine. I swore I would never pay that much for such a crappy job ever again. Since then, I've been doing my own binding. If I happen to download enough related scholarly papers, I bind them into a book. That way I have them at...

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Being that this is my first blog post, I'm just sort of testing the waters so to speak. I'm not so set on having myself stuck to one particular thing that I may blog about, but here are just a couple.

I'm very big into reading (a myriad of different genres, largely fictional; Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Thrillers, Mystery, etc.) and I figured giving reviews to the latest books I've read would be a pretty interesting thing to do.

I might also use this as a medium to write...