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The article reviews the book "Paper Machines: About Cards and Catalogs, 1548-1929," written by Markus Krajewski, translated by Peter Krapp, volume 3 of the "History and Foundation of Information" series.

A review of the book "Paper to Digital: Documents in the Information Age," by Ziming Liu is presented.

The article reviews the book "Daily Life, Materiality, and Complexity in Early Urban Communities of the Southern Levant: Papers in Honor of Walter E. Rast and R. Thomas Schaub," edited by Meredith S. Chesson.

The article reviews the book "New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, IV: Papers of the Renaissance English Text Society, 2002-2006," Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, vol. 354, part of the Renaissance English Text Society Seventh Series, edited by Michael Denbo.

Reviews the book "Fine Paper at the Oxford University Press," by John Bidwell.

Perhaps not since I Miracle on 34th Street i extolled the United States Postal Service for exonerating Santa Claus has an in-depth examination of post office history been so interesting as Cameron Blevins's I Paper Trails: The US Post and the Making of the American West i . At its heart, Blevins argues that the late nineteenth-century US Post was never a centralized bureaucracy but instead a web of individually contracted agents bound together in a flexible "gossamer network" of small post offices. In the epilogue Blevins quickly brings the story through the twentieth century, examining several reforms and showing how today's Contract Postal Units resemble nineteenth-century post offices. [Extracted from the article]

The article reviews the book "Paper-Contestations and Textual Communities in England, 1640-1675," by Elizabeth Sauer.

The article reviews the book "Leaves from an Epigrapher's Notebook: Collected Papers in Hebrew and West Semitic Palaeography and Epigraphy," by Frank Moore Cross.

Reviews two books about synagogue. "The Ancient Synagogue From its Origins Until 200 C.E.: Papers Presented at an International Conference at Lund University, October 14-17, 2001," edited by Birger Olsson and Magnus Zetterholm; "The Synagogue of Ancient Ostia and the Jews of Rome," edited by Birger Olsson, Dieter Mitternacht and Olof Brandt.

Reviews the book "Cyprus in the 19th Century AD: Fact, Fancy and Fiction: Papers of the 22nd British Museum Classical Colloquium, December 1998," edited by Veronica Tatton-Brown.

Reviews the book "Papers of the Thirty-Third Algonquian Conference," edited by H. C. Wolfart.

Reviews the book 'Guide to Writing Empirical Papers, Theses, and Dissertations,' by G. David Garson.

The article reviews the book "Edward Seymour and the Fancy Paper Company: The Story of a British Marbled Paper Manufacturer," by Sidney E. Berger.

Reviews the book "Paper Before Print: The History and Impact of Paper in the Islamic World," by Jonathan M. Bloom.

Reviews the books 'The Oxford Papers: Proceedings of the British Association of Paper Historians Fourth Annual Conference. Held at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, 17-19 September 1993,' and 'The Exeter Papers: Proceedings of the British Association of Paper Historians Fifth Annual Conference, Hope Hall, University of Exeter, 23-25 September 1994,' both edited by Peter Bower.

The article presents reviews of the books "The Mysterious Marbler. With an Historical Introduction, Notes on the English Marbling Tradition, and Thirteen Original Marbled Samples by Richard J. Wolfe," by James Sumner and "Der Vollkommne Papierfäber. The Accomplished Paper Colorer; a Facsimile Reproduction and Translation into English of the Earliest Extant German Treatise on Paper Marbling and Decoration, Together with an Introductory Discussion of the Earliest Specialized Literature in Germany on the Marbling and Decoration of Paper," translated and introduced by Richard J. Wolfe.

This article reviews two books edited by Marc Rothenberg, Kathleen Dorman and Frank R. Millikan: "The Papers of Joseph Henry. Volume 10: January 1858-December 1865: The Smithsonian Years" and "The Papers of Joseph Henry. Volume 11: January 1866-May 1878: The Smithsonian Years."

The article reviews the book "Government Paper: The Materiality of Bureaucracy in Urban Pakistan" by Matthew Hull.

The article reviews the book "Decorated Book Papers, Being an Account of Their Designs and Fashions," 4th edition, by Rosamond B. Loring.

Reviews the book 'Puzzles in Paper: Concepts in Historical Watermarks; Essays from the International Conference on the History, Function and Study of Watermarks, Roanoke, Virginia,' edited by Daniel W. Mosser, Michael Saffle and Ernest W. Sullivan II.

The article reviews the book "Paper Pellets: British Literary Culture After Waterloo," by Richard Cronin.