Sat, 15 Aug 2015 01:53:00 GMT

Today I found this gorgeous black faille/blue velvet early Natural Form dress with the bodice accessioned in 1983 and the skrit in 1966. (The skirt's acc. number is, of course, written on the lining in pen.) I'm torn between a need to figure out the provenance with genealogy of the two donors and a need to just sit around fantasizing about reproducing it, because it's so cute. Oh, and a desire to display it, supposing we had a mannequin or even dress form, because being faille it's in great shape. (Cannot find a good comparison piece to link to. It has a shortish cuirass bodice with a long tail in the back, and the untrained skirt has a panel down the front made of narrow horizontal bands of faille, with velvet ones at intervals.)

Sunday is my podcast interview, I'm scared! But 400-rabbits sent me a list of questions in response to my notes on the period, and I'm going to go over them and try to answer them so that I'll be ready.

Okay, here's a bad thing about Windows 10. It's not telling me when the battery gets too low, it just suddenly flicks into sleep and coming back is twice as painful as a total restart. Not crazy about that.

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Ereader question

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 03:23:30 GMT

Does anyone know how to force a Nook (or a Kindle or any other ereader) to display the scanned book image rather than the version that's been translated into text? I've noticed on my mom's Nook that the older books have more mistakes in the transliteration/digitization/thing, and the things I'll want to download when I get one eventually will be older than those and probably have more mistakes, especially if the text has ligatures in it. It seems like there must be some way to do this ... or do the ereaders just not work that way?

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Ereader question