As I’ve mentioned… I dunno, thousands of times? we scan books. Lots of books. Many of these have illustrations.

It strikes me as being surprisingly difficult to create a special-purpose feed of the images we scan. All I want is the figures. I’d like to add them here to share them, as we create them, and also would like to make the few-hundred older ones available. But the plethora of image gallery plugins for WordPress, and Flickr and its ilk, well they’re all about the photographs, and the placement and stuff. Those solutions are not made for uploading linked thumbnails of charming spot illustrations, and typically involve third-party software and accounts and all sorts of crap.

Simpler would be better. As in: putting the pictures in a folder somewhere, and getting them to show up here in WordPress as a special kind of aside—a blog post with a special style all its own, like the gray boxes the “pure blog” category ends up in. I’m working on it. Meanwhile: