Paper Trail
Paper Trail
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An independent journal about books, readers, makers and the small worlds around an everyday shelf.
A CLOSER LOOK
Notes from readers, makers and independent bookshops.
A closer look at how paper, type and a cover’s proportions change the experience of a book.
A reader’s changing pile: an unfinished novel, a book of photographs and the volume returned to each winter.
The small decisions behind a shelf: what a bookseller puts at eye level and the conversation that follows.
A visual study of the physical life of books.
Paper Trail follows the making, choosing and keeping of books. Our stories move between the finished object and the people whose work or daily life gives it meaning.
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