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I've got libraries in my blood.
I hate [ebooks]. It's like making believe there's another kind of sex. There isn't another kind of sex. There isn't another kind of book! A book is a book is a book.
I want to print books by people in the film industry.
Everything is a burned book, my dear maestro. Music, the tenth dimension, the fourth dimension, cradles, the production of bullets and rifles, Westerns: all burned books.
Don't cry for publishers, paper books ain't dying.
A book is like the beauty of a true love, timeless.
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You don't always have to have an e-book. You can have a real book. I'd like to see the old way maintain.
When anything goes digital, let alone something as immaterial as a book, there is a tendency to see it as just in the air to be taken, and to lose the sense that somebody once made it.
I am always glad when any of my books can be put into an inexpensive edition, because I like to think that any people who might wish to read them can do so. Surely books ought to be within reach of everybody.
The mass-market paperback, for one, is too expensive.
The world of books: romantic, idle, shiftless world so beautiful, so cheap compared with living.
Your library is your paradise.
Choosing from every book ever published seems like a dream, until you're forced to sift through hundreds of thousands of titles on your Kindle, and all the reviews attached to them, hoping to find something good.
This must be a gift book. That is to say a book, which you wouldn't take on any other terms.
What is true for book publishing is true for civilization: the books that survive the test of time are humanity's backlist, our collective memory.
Today, if you want to access a typical out-of-print book, you have only one choice - fly to one of a handful of leading libraries in the country and hope to find it in the stacks.
For readers, one of life's more electrifying discoveries is that they ARE readers--not just capable of doing it...but in love with it...The first book that does that is never forgotten, and each page seems to bring a fresh revelation, one that burns and exalts...
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Everything's digital now, but sometimes I'll buy a paperback if I love the book. I love the smell of them too. Like the first time you open them up, and they're fresh and new. Or old books,
I don't want no better book than what your face is.
I love the look of books published by the firm of Rupert Hart-Davis: They strike me as handsome, elegant, and inviting. I'll pick up almost anything with that imprint, especially if it's in a jacket or priced low.
The books of the 1920s and '30s that are most inviting, with their handy size, generous margins, and sharp letterpress type.
The book belongs to the author.
I look up at the ceiling, at all the hardcover fiction. So very few people want it. It is operating as insulation rather than stock. The argument rages on about whether it is better to have books or ebooks, but while everyone gets heated about the choices, the hardcover fiction molders quietly away.
I am fanatic book lover.
I'm a bit of an audiobook junkie,
There is a Book worth all other books which were ever printed.
I own an e-reader, but I use it almost exclusively to read things that aren't books - student theses, unbound galleys.
The books I would like to print are the books I love to read and keep.
I like books that are fat and full.
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I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right away to look up something in it; very handy for that - you can have it just the next minute; you can press the button and just have it.
Your reciept is your library card.
On what killed the brick and mortar bookstores.
I love physical books, can't bear to throw them away, and am drowning under the weight of my collection, but I do a lot of my work reading now on my iPad.
Thank God for old-fashioned hardcovers. The e-book reader she had at home wouldn't have packed nearly the same punch.
Most best-sellers are written for readers who are willing to be passive consumers. The blurbs on their covers often highlight the coercive, aggressive power of the text - compulsive page-turner, gut-wrenching, jolting, mind-searing, heart-stopping - what is this, electroshock torture?
Items, or browse the Kindle Store.
Do not judge a book by its price!
Your library is your portrait.
Crave the small, tactile simplicity of my new Kindle Paperwhite in its purple leather cover, which is currently home to what would make up around three boxes of physical books, but whose screen's digital imprint is flattened of all memory and association. It's soulless and almost weightless.
There is a value to books - unhackable, paper books - that measures far beyond mere ink and paper.
What's my favourite book? It changes all the time.
These weren't cheap modern books; these were books bound in leather, and not just leather, but leather from clever cows who had given their lives for literature after a happy existence in the very best pastures.
In the summer of '80, Silhouette bought my first book.
While confronting the problems of the present, I often find myself thinking back to the world of books as it was experienced by the Founding Fathers and the philosophers of the Enlightenment.
the top 10% of people who buy a nonfiction book.
The problem with digital books is that you can always find what you are looking for but you need to go to a bookstore to find what you weren't looking for.
The best books are the ones with the coolest covers
Although I was always a keen library user, buying books was a different order of bliss, because I would get to live with these ones.
(A Chat with Emma Donoghue)
There were books involved.
I'm an appreciator. I love all kinds of books, and I want others to love them, too.
Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.
Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us daily with tempting titles and tantalizing covers.
Hardcovers will never completely disappear. They are delightful to hold; they feel weighty and substantial. But my anecdotal evidence suggests that the world is changing.
We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed.
There are only two reasons for buying a book, after all. Either we intend to read it, in which case most of us find a printed version preferable, or we don't intend to read it, in which case a printed version is absolutely essential.
Nothing makes a man more reverent than a library
The shelf was filled with books that were hard to read, that could devastate and remake one's soul, and that, when they were finished, had a kick like a mule.
Book clubs, both online and in person, have become a large percentage of the reading public, and many of them won't consider reading books in hardcover.
Any library, by its very existence, conjures up its forbidden or forgotten double: an invisible but formidable library of the books that, for conventional reasons of quality, subject matter or even volume, have been deemed unfit for survival under this specific roof.
Vita hominis plus libro valet! A life is worth more than a book.
Happy indeed are those days when the book-lover has been accorded the freedom of some ancient library. A delicious feeling of tranquillity pervades him as he selects some nook and settles himself to read.
That's not what I mean by 'a book.' I mean a 'book' in the sense of the dust jacket, the cover, the pages . . ." "A book is the text. And you can read the text on an iPad!
The best booksellers are like trustworthy pushers: Whatever they're dealing, you take it.
I love the physicality of books.
For years (decades even), I genuinely believed that world would beat a path to my books and stories, but eventually, as everything I wrote went rapidly out of print and stayed there, I wised up and started assembling them in e-format editions.
A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.
Books are like bound dreams waiting to be released
Never judge a book by its price!
eBooks make lousy door stoppers
I hunger for books.
Books like a box of chocolates; each one sweet and unique!
I think the definition of a book is changing.
I would always want printed books.
It's our job - as parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles - to find books our kids are going to like.
Of books in our time the variety is so voluminous, and they follow so fast from the press, that one must be a swift reader to acquaint himself even with their titles, and wise to discern what are worth reading.
I keep three kinds of books: those I want to read, those I want to reread, and those I want to reopen just to confirm how bad they are.
The subscriptions were working so well, and on top of that, we saw the success of Netflix and Spotify and thought, 'We can create a similar kind of experience for books.'
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Books are my Disease.
What better place to kill time than a library?
A modern librarian, who has faith in the law that 'BOOKS ARE FOR USE,' is happy only when his readers make his shelves constantly empty. It is not the books that go out that worry him. It is the stay-at-home volumes that perplex and depress him.
I am an avid reader.
I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it.
I might love my e-reader, but I'd never pass up the chance to browse real books.
Don't judge me by the cover, 'cause I'm a real good book.
To a book collector, you see, the true freedom of all books is somewhere on his shelves.
Barnes & Noble is able to publish price-reduced non-copyrighted works not so much because it saves the 10 percent to 15 percent of revenue that would go to the gruel-eating authors, but because it saves the 50 percent that would go to the publishers.
Usually, you don't know where a book comes from ... it's just there, some kind of an itch that you can't quite scratch.
Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book.
Acknowledgements
With grateful thanks to the three least-appreciated and hardest-working proselytizers of the written word: independent bookstores, librarians, and teachers.
Something: the BookBook-- Ted Stetson
The proper bookmark for a Hunter Thompson book is a pair of brass knuckles.
I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt.
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I priced my books at what I would want to spend on an electronic book.
The connection between authors, printers, and booksellers must be kept up.
Novels are pirated all the time, but it's hard to imagine that you're at work and you open up the attachment that your brother sent you and it's the new Phillip Roth novel.
Books which are no books.