The Blog of Comellas Rare Books 2026-02-21T18:18:50+02:00 Copyright 2004-2005 Ublog Reload 1.0.5 NEWTON (I.) <![CDATA[I certainly read my rare books. Indeed, I have acquired most of them for the purposes of reading and studying them, and I have referred ...]]> https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=67#34 2020-04-07T14:29:17+02:00 2020-04-07T14:29:17+02:00 2020-04-07T14:29:17+02:00 LAMBERT (J. H.) <![CDATA[I have collected books in optics, ranging from a 1477 printing of a handbooks for preachers based entirely on metaphors and similes of vision and ...]]> https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=67#33 2020-04-07T06:55:34+02:00 2020-04-07T06:55:34+02:00 2020-04-07T06:55:34+02:00
For some languages, I have found Google Translator remarkably helpful. Though it is useless for Latin, it seems (just) adequate for many European languages. I wonder what other collectors have found in this regard. I would not call the result "reading" (which connotes other things) but rather something like a slow-study, and you have to treat the results with considerable care since there is no nuance or care in shade of meaning.

For those of us that do, Why do we read our books? My own (technical) education was critically dependent of books and I have always been keen to study those books that served the same purpose in centuries past. Books as instruments of progress -- Lux Mentis. I have little interest in books as objects.]]> CAMUS (A.) <![CDATA[Most of the books in my collection I've read in cheap editions (before purchasing the first editions). I visit the first editions now to review ...]]> https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=67#32 2020-04-05T22:40:04+02:00 2020-04-05T22:40:04+02:00 2020-04-05T22:40:04+02:00 CAJÉTAN <![CDATA[I've spent more time with my collection lately in light of the COVID-19 lockdown. I look at the illustrations first, but read the works ...]]> https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=67#31 2020-04-05T20:57:29+02:00 2020-04-05T20:57:29+02:00 2020-04-05T20:57:29+02:00 BALZAC (H. de) <![CDATA[I do not, on the whole, read my antiquarian books - which are not of a literary but of a scientific nature - but ...]]> https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=67#30 2020-04-04T23:27:48+02:00 2020-04-04T23:27:48+02:00 2020-04-04T23:27:48+02:00 CAMPANELLA (T.) <![CDATA[Buonasera. Leggo sempre i miei libri e li commento nella mia bibliografia di astrologia.<br />Good evening. I usually read my books and I commenred the ...]]> https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=67#29 2020-04-04T18:48:10+02:00 2020-04-04T18:48:10+02:00 2020-04-04T18:48:10+02:00 Good evening. I usually read my books and I commenred the in my bibliography of astrology.
Leandro Cantamessa ]]>