End of the month = monthly End Notes™️ 😉
February 2026 edition: https://www.alex-kunz.com/february-2026-end-notes/
With photos, behind the scenes, links, etc. etc.
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My recent post about Luca Pacoli cited Noam Andrews's fascinating book ‘The Polyhedrists: Art and Geometry in the Long Sixteenth Century’ [https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262046640/the-polyhedrists/].
It seems that in 2023 it won a bronze medal from the Stiftung Buchkunst in the category ‘Best Book Design from all over the World’ [https://www.stiftung-buchkunst.de/best-book-design-from-all-over-the-world/die-praemierten/detail/the-polyhedrists/?view=grid&year=2023].
I can only assume that the judges did not evaluate the design by actually reading the book.
The prize citation says: ‘Type area, typeface and the pictures' warm mood radiate a sense of calm. […] browsing through it is pure joy.’
Reading rather than browsing is a *different* experience. The book has no running heads, either in the main text or in the 20 pages of endnotes.
So, even leaving aside my dislike of endnotes (especially when they mix discursion and citation), if one wants to consult an endnote, without running heads one is *lost*. One has to flip back through the pages of the text to find the chapter title, then flip through the endnotes to find the corresponding heading, and only then can one find the correct note.
(To be clear: none of my complaints here are about Andrews's scholarship or writing, only the book design.)
It's the end of the month (already?! thankfully?! whatever) and here are my End Notes for January 2026 with the usual combination of stuff: notes from the trail, weather observations, links, and of course a few photos. Organic, human and free from generative AI. 😜
https://www.alex-kunz.com/january-2026-end-notes/
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It's time!
My monthly End Notes for December 2025 once more combine a summary of photographic activities with links, recent photos, a look at changes behind the scenes, notes on the weather, and more!
https://www.alex-kunz.com/december-2025-end-notes/
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Photos, observations from the trail and of the weather, a meditative ocean soundscape field recording, plus a few thoughts and links: it’s my monthly End Notes, November 2025 edition.
October is over and in my blog, I have the usual End Notes with a look back at this months photographic activities, observations from the trail, and a couple of photos I made this month.
https://www.alex-kunz.com/october-2025-end-notes/
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On the blog, as usual for the end of the month, my End Notes — September 2025 edition!
https://www.alex-kunz.com/september-2025-end-notes/
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It’s so refreshing to be reading an older #philosophy book that has true #footnotes instead of #endnotes. In addition to the obvious, it reminds me of a conversation with my favorite philosophy professor — when I complained about the frustration of dealing with endnotes, having to bounce back and forth between text and notes, he said “Oh, I just read all of the endnotes first, and then read the text itself.” Would that I could.
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