When noodling around on the Internet adds value to my stock.

One way in which the dissemination of information freely on the Internet may in fact translate into sales of books rather than their obsolescence: the collection of Sarah Wyman Whitman binding designs at the Boston Public Library as seen on flickr. The arrangement of the photos does not necessarily lend itself to ready bibliographic reference and I don’t think the library makes any claims to completeness, but I am certainly off to start pulling material off the shelves of my shop to flag them as Whitman designs.