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Marcin Wichary
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Writing a book about the history of keyboards: http://aresluna.org/shift-happens  · Design manager @figmadesign · Typographer · Occasional speaker · He/him

San Francisco, Calif.
Joined October 2009

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    1. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 11 Feb 2018
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      But I didn’t give up. And in another bookstore yesterday, I seeked help. I went to a machine, and somehow (no English UI) figured out how to search for books.

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    2. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 11 Feb 2018
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      I typed in “Stanislaw” instead of the easily matched “Lem,” and I got some results! They all pointed to this section right next to me that looked like an entire case filled with hard sci-fi.pic.twitter.com/rZwStOBwM4

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    3. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 11 Feb 2018
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      Since I cannot easily read a spine, I have to go through them one by one. And I eventually find one of Lem’s books! It’s a paperback of The Futorological Congress with a horrible cover harking back to a failed movie adaptation.pic.twitter.com/P4VtFgFSh3

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    4. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 11 Feb 2018
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      I guess it’s good enough? I gather that all the other results in the database were just old and not updated, or maybe in different bookstores…

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    5. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 11 Feb 2018
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      But then, just before leaving, I looked up. And there, in the upper right corner, I found an entire section of Lem’s books!!! I never looked for a ladder faster in my life. They were there, with Polish titles alongside Japanese ones! Apparently Lem *is* “big in Japan,” too.pic.twitter.com/KmXJ5m5MSm

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    6. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 11 Feb 2018
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      I think this was the closest I ever been in real life to that recurring dream of mine. And so, I got three, including a paperback of Solaris, and a hard cover of Fiasco, which is my favourite book.pic.twitter.com/TI4OzU0fPE

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    7. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 11 Feb 2018
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      The books are read right to left, and have that small wraparound band called “obi” that is, I believe, specific to Japan. I remember it from CDs and it was there on the record I bought yesterday. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obi_(publishing) …pic.twitter.com/7V6SisilSS

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    8. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 11 Feb 2018
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      So excited to have found them, and I’m actually going to try to read Fiasco! There are so many things here that perplex me: bolded bits and footnotes (neither present in the original). Chapters have their original Polish titles. There also seems to be a glossary at the end.pic.twitter.com/k8ZFZ3UXsI

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    9. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 11 Feb 2018
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      Why are there two bar codes? (They actually scanned both.) Why is the text on the page split this way? It’s kind of incredible: this book that I have read so many times, appearing once again as a mysterious, unknown artifact.pic.twitter.com/vncGy32wHi

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    10. Michelle Lee  🐍‏ @mishmosh 11 Feb 2018
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      Re: #2 The text reads vertically; the split is probably line breaks. Top chunk gets read first (across all lines), then bottom chunk.

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      Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 12 Feb 2018
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      Would you know why the other book with the exact same dimensions and font size doesn’t do that, though…?

      4:09 AM - 12 Feb 2018
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        2. hopper‏ @hopperjp 8 Apr 2018
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          It is called 段組み (dangumi) and used to save space otherwise wasted at the end of paragraph. Whether to layout the page using dangumi method or not is decided by book format designer. It would make the book thinner and use less paper, but make it look a bit crowded.

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        3. hopper‏ @hopperjp 8 Apr 2018
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          So whether to layout like that is a matter of aesthetics. In some cases, white space on the page is intentionally layouted by the author for visual effect.

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