Toast, Redux 2
A while back I pointed out the potential awesomeness of a toast printer, but it seemed that dream item was not going to go into production. However, it seems some enterprising people are jumping on the interesting toast bandwagon all the same:
However I do not need any more tat in my house, especially as I have now destroyed any of the good work I’d done towards stopping the book mountain from taking over my living space by buying this. 
How could I resist? The sacred words of St Heston complete with pretty photographs, illustrations by Dave McKean and a pile of scientific papers at the back. I’ve been wandering to my local Books Etc at lunchtimes to have a flick through it’s silver edged pages, so I decided to give in to temptation and buy it. I even paid Amazon for postage so that it’ll turn up sooner. I suspect that I will never cook a recipe from within its rather excellent pages, but that also strikes me as not being the point. As much as I have been fighting recently against my love of owning books as artifacts, concentrating on the actual contents instead, this one strokes the “thing” coveting side of my personality in such an intimate manner that I could not resist. It may well be the most expensive book that I’ve ever bought, but I can’t see how it won’t be worth it.
Tomorrow I’m off to the Chelsea Antiquarian Book Fair to have a look at some books, as I’ve heard that they may make my new purchase look cheap and as such I think my wallet should stay safely in my pocket. It’s all research for a session that Annie Mole and I have proposed (well, she proposed it, I seconded it) for Amplified 08 on The Future of The Book – anything that I can use as an excuse to have a look at and covet shiny books sounds good to me. If I have time after the fair I’m going to try and follow it up with a trip along to Handmade & Bound, a handmade book, comic and ‘zine fair. Having tinkered with the high-tech, sterile world of the ebook for the last few weeks this delving to the other side of the spectrum will hopefully even up my views on the future of the printed word.
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Posted: November 7th, 2008 under blog.
Tags: books, burnt, st heston, toast, vader
Comment from http://randomness.org.uk/
Time 8th November 2008 at 4:53 pm
have you seen the stuff swardley has been playing with
http://blog.gardeviance.org/2008/10/looking-for-good-author.html