E-noses may help identify old p-books needing special attention—plus trivia for typography and ‘Titanic’ buffs

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By David Rothman

How to spot old books in need of special attention? One solution might be an electronic sniffer than evaluates books based on their odors. So proposes Matija Strlic at the Center for Sustainable Heritage at University College London

And the equivalent for e-books? Maybe diagnostic software for your hard drive or solid-state storage?

Also of interest to bibliophiles—or at least typography buffs: Mistakes in typography grate the purists, in the New York Times. Would you believe, the Titanic movie showed Helvetica numbers on pressure gauges even though Helvetica didn’t exist until 1957, more than four decades after the disaster.

Speaking of print: With New Presses, Daily News Is Betting on World of Print, in the Times.

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