We’d agreed early on that my role was to subject every section of the book to the brutal question: Can the book possibly live without this? Michael Pietsch on editing DFW's Infinite Jest. From Infinite Summer, a 2009 project in collaborative study and reading of IJ. Bonus: a conversation in Slate between Pietsch and novelist…
Thirty Tables of Contents
Thirty Tables of Contents: A Flickr set from the Design Observer Group Some quick-&-dirty ToC tips: Title it "Contents," not "Table of Contents." ToC should always begin on a recto page (usually page v of the front matter). If every chapter begins with an introduction, you can safely leave the "Introduction" subheadings out of the…
DIY Book Care and Repair
BOOKCRAFT: Simple Techniques for the Maintenance and Repair of Books (pdf) is meant for schools and libraries, but provides quick reference to the parts of a bound book along with illustrated guides to their maintenance and repair. The Alaska State Library also has a helpful series of PDFs, collectively called Conservation Book Repair: A Training…
Fox Editing 