{"id":1885,"date":"2007-11-23T14:17:43","date_gmt":"2007-11-23T19:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=1885"},"modified":"2007-11-23T14:19:45","modified_gmt":"2007-11-23T19:19:45","slug":"the-most-unusual-books-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1885","title":{"rendered":"The Most Unusual Books of the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/strangebook.jpg\" alt=\"Image of Sculptural Book\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shawnday.com\/randomosity\/\">Shawn<\/a> sent me this link for the <a href=\"http:\/\/mywiki.ws\/The_Most_Unusual_Books_of_the_World\">The Most Unusual Books of the World<\/a>. Loyal readers will have seen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=1677\">my Text in the Machine<\/a> experiment on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/geoffreyrockwell\/sets\/72157600306287246\/\">Flickr (where there is a photoessay)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>McMaster&#8217;s archives actually have a number of English fore-edge painted books that were, apparently, popular gifts in their time.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m trying to imagine a visualization tool that would show you selected passages cut sculpturally out of a 3D book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shawn sent me this link for the The Most Unusual Books of the World. Loyal readers will have seen my Text in the Machine experiment on Flickr (where there is a photoessay). McMaster&#8217;s archives actually have a number of English fore-edge painted books that were, apparently, popular gifts in their time. I&#8217;m trying to imagine &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1885\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Most Unusual Books of the World<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-arts","category-digital-and-interactive-art","category-visualization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}