Not To Put Too Fine a Point on It, 2nd Edition
Ten reported stories on type, printing, and language, in a new hardcover edition
A new 128-page hardcover edition of Glenn Fleishman’s reported stories on type, printing, and language. All ten stories, updated with notes, new information, a bibliography, and a full index. Includes the revised ebook (PDF, EPUB, and Kindle).
This Bundle Includes:
- Not To Put Too Fine a Point on It (Ebook)
Details
This is a new 128-page hardcover edition of Not To Put Too Fine a Point on It, originally produced in 2017 and 2018 in a limited edition of 125 letterpress-printed, hand-bound copies. This high-quality offset edition contains ten reported stories that Glenn Fleishman originally wrote for The Atlantic, Wired, Meh.com, newsletter subscribers, and patrons. Six of these stories appeared in the original letterpress edition, and the other four were added to the 2018 ebook.
Printed in North America, the hardcover book has a black-and-white interior and color cover, and measures 6x8 inches (15.2x20.3 cm). This edition updates the earlier print and ebook versions with notes, new information, a bibliography, and a full index.
The book’s chapters:
- Nothing Is Lacking: The earliest uses of marking a page as intentionally leaving something out.
- CAPITAL CRIMES: Why we SHOUT with UPPERCASE.
- The Ten-Millennium Safe: A website plans for the far future.
- The Quibble with Online Quotes: Will the Internet kill off curly quotes?
- Look Askew: Slanting type is like stealing sheep.
- Noto Bene: Google builds a massive typeface to represent all the languages of the world.
- You Can’t Quote Me on It! Email and forums ape an ancient textual device in marking quotations.
- “A Font of Type”: Walt Whitman was a hipster 19th-century Brooklyn printer, and this poem has deep roots in his background.
- What a Relief: While letterpress seemed destined for the junk heap, it has made a surprising comeback.
- A Crank Turns a Letterpress: Your author spent hundreds of hours walking a carriage on a press back and forth and thinking about what it meant.
Every copy comes with the revised ebook, so you can read it the moment it’s ready.
Already own the ebook or a letterpress copy? You’ll receive the updated ebook at no charge when it’s released.
Specifications
- Author / Creator
- Glenn Fleishman
- Publisher
- Aperiodical Publishing Co.
- Publication Date
- October 2026
- ISBN
- 979-8-9978268-0-2
- Pages
- 128
- Dimensions
- 6x8 inches (15.2x20.3 cm)
- Format
- Hardcover, offset printed. Black-and-white interior with a full-color cover. Includes the ebook in PDF, EPUB, and Kindle formats.
- Weight
- 12 oz