Look at picture below, they are just a books, this needs no reward just…… books 🙂 
So, in our real life, there are people who read and people who read too little. Reading is the last refuge for addictive personalities; there are no bad side effects from reading to much. Some people think becoming too found of books will turn our brains. I am thinking that our books turn us on to our passions and to pursuing our passions. We are shelved our books as big-and-small, we are organized some of them by colour so that shelves resemble a rainbow. However, the new trend in home decor is backwards – looking – literally and following modern interior designers advice……. if the books don’t match your decor? Please, don’t fret … just flip them :), simply turn the spines of your book in, those pages out which can help those who might otherwise find their immediate environment overstimulating.
Until the 18th century, the convention was to display every book with their pages turned out and the author’s name printed across them. Then some bright spark suggested an embossed spine might look better and what became known as “The Great Turnaround” began. Let’s hope a “Grand Flip-over” isn’t upon us. 🙂
Around three months ago, I was thrilled to be asked to design, and produce the exhibits just helped bring the Tiny Treasures: Miniature Books from Scotland and Beyond” story to life curated by Dr Dimitra Fimi.
It was one of my biggest challenges in supporting to install a small exhibition with tiny, tiny treasure( without special budget 🙂 )
I thought that our treasures are tiny but nothing wrong, the spirit and technology to produce much smaller books printed onto a single 5 mm x 5 mm surface. Scientists at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa have etched the 1.2 million letters of the Old Testament onto a disk no larger than the tip of a pen. 
They’re calling it the Nano Bible and reading it would require an electron microscope. The Nano Bible is a new way to look at history, combining the ancient words that never change with modern technology that is always changing. Using incredible nanotechnology, an Israeli company successfully printed the entire New Testament — all 27 books comprising 180,000 words — on a single silicon chip that’s smaller than your pinky nail. What is the Nano Bible? The term nano derivers its name from the Greek world nanos means dwarf.
The unit nanometer measures one-billionth of a meter, a ratio similar to the size of an olive compared to the entire planet earth. The Nano-bible is a gold -plated silicon chip of the size of a pinhead on which the entire Hebrew bible is engraved. the text consisting of more than 1.2 million letters, is carved on the 0.5 mm square chip means of a focused ion beam. the beam dislodges gold atoms from the plating and creates the letters, similar to the way the earliest inscriptions were carved in stone, but the writing process takes only about an hour and a half.
The letters belong to a font unique to this technology and appear darker against their gold background. Today the nano Bibles are not produced individually. Now, it is mass-produced on eight-inch round wafers, each of which contains 1,210 complete copies of the New Testament. A microchip containing the entire New Testament is being marketed as a fashion accessory. The tiny tome, which is less than a fifth of an inch square, can be mounted on a necklace, bracelet but you’ll need a special microscope to read it. Maybe one day our collections will be enriched by such nanotechnology books, maybe Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland from Dr Dimitra Fimi and her colleagues’ project?
It will be really challenged for future conservators 🙂 how to store and how to share that book to the public 🙂 . Change happens. It can sometimes be exciting, sometimes uncomfortable, sometimes even threatening, but it cannot be avoided.
For everything you’ve ever read, loved and remembered
is now part of your consciousness.
What is once cherished
can never perish.
Ella
conservation with ella 