antiquarian

The idea that maintenance should not be done during the day is a bit antiquarian.

Of course, there are rare antiquarian books that always find a buyer, but they are quite few.

The globetrotting, talk of valuable books and masterful antiquarian knowledge, and slow but definite buildup of tension were the same.

There is no magic to antiquarian books and there is no need to romanticize them.

Eventually, both of those will seem pointless to anyone who isn't an antiquarian weirdo.

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations.

But nothing will ever replace the sense of excitement one can get from antiquarian books if one is a lover of history and traditional learning.

The unbrella site of the used and rare book (antiquarian) biz.

I found the recent series by the Digital Antiquarian to be very interesting on this, weaving together Infocom's Trinity series and the atomic bomb history, including the Tsar Bomba.

• valuable because rare or old: out-of-print and antiquarian books.

(In an antiquarian bookstore for €25, as one does...

Perhaps there is a specialist antiquarian OCR package which can deal with long s, interchangeable u and v, non-standardised spelling, etc, but I have yet to come across one.

Jimmy Maher's "The Digital Antiquarian: an ongoing history of computer entertainment" is an in-depth, high-quality series of essays.

But nothing will ever replace the sense of excitement one can get from antiquarian books if one is a lover of history and traditional learning." I find the serendipity bandwidth of wandering around a bookstore much higher than the Web.

As a side note: This blog, The Digital Antiquarian, makes an absolutely excellent job to chronicle the home computer history from a gamers point of view.