Random book discoveries, have long been considered an important source ofĭiscoveries and inventions. Of chance encounters does concern me, because many of my best ideas have come from Titles, reducing our chance of stumbling across that random, fascinating bookĪm not a Luddite, and I am not lamenting the demise of paper books. Sales move online, brick and mortar bookstores are stocking only the most popular Had this experience, it certainly was the biggest. While this isn’t the only store where I have
One of them,Ī book just published in April, was actually categorized as “print on-demand”–even though the book is now in its 3 rd edition. Time the shelves didn’t look all that full.Īnd not a single book on my shopping list was in the store. It might be the product of selective memory, but this Hadn’t been in the store for years but I remembered it being packed with all Into the Barnes and Noble flagship store on 5 th Avenue In Manhattan. Would never have found this book had I not seen it on the shelf…by chance. With another project I am working on, one associated with business-related While walking through the stacks, Henry Petroski’s The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance, a book about the origins of the pencil, caught
This week I was looking for a book on Renaissance art in the You believe in knowledge through serendipitous discovery, then quite a lot. What does Renaissance art have in common with a pencil? If