Taschen primarily makes quality artbooks in the trade paperback size instead of coffee table book size like most art books. So they are pocketsized artbooks, at least compared to most artbooks, few of their books actually would fit in any reasonable sized pocket due to their tendency to be in the thousand page range.
They make tons of coffee table books. Most of their books are larger than pocket size. Most are at least 8x11 and lots are size xl or the “Summo” size which is quite large.
As you are not using units for 8x11 I guess that's inches, which is a funny unit, considering this thread started about German meaning of "Taschenbuch"
A pocket sized art book, that’s thousand of pages, that’s the size of the average paperback book. Hmm…
I am suspicious as to whether you have ever seen a taschen brand book before. They are not trade paperback size, they are coffee table books. According to Amazon they tend to be in the 500-600 range.
Taschen makes a variety of different books. They do indeed have a "pocket size" line about different artists, but I think it might be discontinued now. I have one here about Mozart.
Yep probably, still room for some light and visually pleasing reading I guess! Just like I might enjoy watching some John Wick movie knowing full well it won’t go down in history like Citizen Kane.
Seeing that it's also in this book (which I would like to buy, btw) I can't help but comment on the myth of the 'first bug' in computing: it's a historical fake, see for example here[1]
It's not a fake. It's just misattributed to Grace Hopper.
As for the claim that it's the origin of the word bug, that's just the typical exaggeration that befalls many stories. Memetic mutation turns everything into a story about superlatives. The text of the log book itself makes it clear that this is just the first time that the bug has been literally found, a comment that only makes sense if the phrase was already firmly established.
Usually the pictures have a bit of small text next to them. Don't expect full stories or documentary style text. You're not supposed to read these books, but skim through the pages and look at the pictures. The text is only there to give some context.
Think of it like the text next to a picture in the museum. That is also often only 2 or 3 sentences. And repeated in multiple languages.
So whichever you order, you'll get definitely English, no worries there.
Look, here you can zoom into the text, it's clearly three paragraphs, the first one repeated in three languages
We still default to this handset style on audiophones and the experience is much better for the other end. I wish people would zoom using handsets (when headsets not available).
I don’t see why when we add video we would automatically drop the handset, or rather why would we keep on designing handset phones when hands free technology exists.
I have two prints from the Guide To Computing series and they’re both excellent.