Dispatches from the Rare Book Trade
Scott BrownA periodic essay on rare books, bookselling, and book collecting, used as a hook to interest folks in my newly catalogued books.
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How well does AI catalog rare books?
There is a lot of unease these days about AI coming for professional jobs. Rare book dealers would seem to be immune because our work involves lots of specialized knowledge that typically requires years to develop.
I wondered how well AI...
Chop. Copy. Shred.
I’ve sold four books to AI companies, which added $439 to my gross sales, before online commissions were subtracted. Three of the books were titles I wouldn’t ordinarily stock; they arrived with books I actually wanted and seemed too valuab...
New Arrivals from Downtown Brown Books
A list of 53 new arrivals just went live on my rare bookstore’s website, DowntownBrown.com. A few highlights:
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One of the few surviving 19th century manuscripts of Tarzan creator Edgar Rice Burroughs.
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American firsts of Ian Flem...
eBay *Really* Doesn't Care About Fraud
ChatGPT’s take on the current state of eBay’s security department
Last month, an inscribed first edition of The Shining appeared on eBay with this description: “Very good condition[.] is from the james strand collection[.] I had nothing to...
Shiny Object Syndrome Revisited
A few weeks ago I wrote about Shiny Object Syndrome, a term I borrowed from Rachel Harris, an accountant here on Substack.
Friends of the ’Stack over at the Stuff Dreams Are Made Of (SDAMO) podcast took the subject and ran with it in a rec...
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Scott Brown is the proprietor, packer, shipper, cataloger, photographer, and janitor of Downtown Brown Books, operating out of a secret location in Northwest Portland, Oregon.
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