Is this the Best Job in Publishing?

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Is this the Best Job in Publishing?

We all dream of a creative, stimulating job in pleasant surroundings. Working with nice people, maybe? How about a “commute” that includes rolling green countryside and quaint villages? Well it looks like some people get to live that life.

Abi and Katie, two young book designers at emc design, just shared a day in their work lives as (respectively) middleweight and junior book designers.

Far from the chaos of the world they serve, Abi and Katie get up in the morning and trundle from Bedford to the scenic English village of Oakley to put in a hard day’s slog of drinking tea and being creative.

From the vantage point of eBooks.com’s corporate head office here on the edge of the Nullarbor Plain in Western Australia, that seems like a pretty good gig.

A good curse will protect your books against theft

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A good curse will protect your books against theft

There was a time when bibles were chained to pulpits and armed guards watched over royal libraries. But there were historically more subtle ways to discourage theft. A fascinating report from Atlas Obscura reveals popularity of curses.

A good curse can go a long way to putting, literally, the fear of God into any would-be thief. Just try writing a little ditty like this on the first page of a treasured tome:

“For him that stealeth, or borroweth and returneth not, this book from its owner, let it change into a serpent in his hand & rend him. Let him be struck with palsy & all his members blasted. Let him languish in pain crying aloud for mercy,  & let there be no surcease to his agony till he sing in dissolution. Let bookworms gnaw his entrails in token of the Worm that dieth not, & when at last he goeth to his final punishment, let the flames of Hell consume him for ever.”

That should do the trick.

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