Please consider helping us be considered for a $250K for the love of books and book lovers.

We are pleased to have applied for a $250K grant which we will leverage, if awarded, to perpetuate book love and culture to future generations. In order to be considered, we need 250 'signatures' in the next four days. Please give us your vote of confidence and help up engage emerging book lovers, everywhere. http://bit.ly/MRoovu Choose 'Support' and search for Lux Mentis and VOTE -- please share as you wish

Ian, can you tell us more about how these grants work? There doesn't seem to be any documentation on the support page about just what the funding is for. Sounds great in principle, though!

Sorry. I won't.

Voting is done through Facebook.

No way.

Edited to add: I see that you're spamming the forums with this request, too (at least five, and I don't know how many more in groups I ignore). So even if I were on Facebook, I wouldn't be inclined to support your request.

I won't vote through Facebook either. Also, why haven't you told us the name of the small business that is asking for this grant?

I have purchased at least one book from Lux Mentis (although I can't remember what it was) and met the dealer at the Seattle Book Fair a few years back. Ads appear regularly in Fine Books Magazine. So even though this post is sketchy this is a real person with a real shop. I would recommend interested readers to go to the Lux Mentis website rather than continuing the discussion here. This is not the right venue for this issue.

I clicked the bit.ly link and got a "stop sign warning" page that the link has been identified as potentially problematic, which could include phishing or possibly even malware. I was using Firefox, but since this is a bit.ly warning page I doubt it's any kind of browser-specific warning (though I haven't tested in IE or elsewhere).

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Not browser-specific. I just tried using Safari and got that warning, too.

Right - the links are bogus - it appears someone is scamming off the good name of Lux Mentis. I went to his website and facebook pages directly and there is nothing in there about a 'grant.'

I flagged the message. Hope it eradicates this disease.

Who knows. Frankly, in the light of what mtnmdjd said in #5 and the fact that ijkahn has been a user for over 6 years, I'm more worried that apparently that account got hacked. Any way of warning the legitimate user?

Never mind: I found an email address and messaged.

I don't think it's hacked, since he posted similarly on FB (and that was why I responded the way I did in #2). Ian lives right around the corner from us in Portland (but he's actually in VA at Rare Book School this week, where I am). I'll touch base with him, but I think he posted intentionally.

Okay. In that case he's making a bad impression. Not that I would mind him getting a $250K grant. I could use one myself ;-)

Sorry for delay in response to this tempest in a teapot. I've been traveling and at Rare Book School for the past week plus and have not been paying attention to the ether.

Sorry to any offended by my post here and in a handful of of other forums (here and elsewhere). Sorrier still that e only way to engage in the grant program was through FB, etc. That said, the opportunity to experiment with the program structure was interesting and the potential to fund a number of bibliophilic projects was too interesting to ignore.

Frankly, the opportunity to be considered for a grant of this sort, annoyances notwithstanding, far outweighed the burden/risk as far as I am concerned. I spend a great deal of time working to bring along the next generation(s) of collectors, creators, and curators of books and book arts. If cross-posting in a handful of forums might result in the ability to do a good deal more work in these areas, I'm there. I've been active in bbs/forums for 30+ years and knew some would chafe...as some are always so inclined...but the meta-goal remains worthwhile.

Thank you to those who supported our (belated) application in this grant program. Sorry to any offended by the announcement/request. Personally, I suggest those who love books and the Black Arts generally (collecting, printing, typography, book arts, etc) should be keeping an eye out for projects and programs that help those of us working to perpetuate, encourage, and evolve book culture. YYMV.