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It was at our library that I found Nancy Drew and fell in love with the genre. I've been grateful ever since for those tolerant, book-loving librarians who allowed a child like me to read what I wanted to read.
THROUGH THE EYES OF A GEEK by Kat Brookes
Thank God for old-fashioned hardcovers. The e-book reader she had at home wouldn't have packed nearly the same punch.
Raising a cold eye from book to clock in the positively sultry Beardsley College library, among bulky young women caught and petrified in the overflow of human knowledge.
Like most of my friends in school, I was a member of multiple circulating libraries; and all of us, to begin with, borrowed and read the same things.
There are almost as many kinds of libraries as there are kinds of readers.
Books are finished.
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.
As a bookish adolescent, I sopped up texts as if I were blotting paper and they were fluid.
I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who I might be inside it.
[Patrick Ness slams library cuts (The Guardian, 23 June 2011)]
The books of the 1920s and '30s that are most inviting, with their handy size, generous margins, and sharp letterpress type.
I knew books to be objects that loved to cluster and form disordered piles, but here books seemed robbed of their zany capacity to fall about, to conspire. In the library, books behaved themselves.
The Kindle is the most successful electronic book-reading tablet so far, but that's not saying much; Silicon Valley is littered with the corpses of e-book reader projects.
We see ourselves as the world's digital library. That can be a lot more than books. We do want to expand to other types of content: sheet music, magazines, user-generated content.
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.
Dear me, how I love a library.
There's no place like a library!
Bookshops are infested with ideas. Books are quivering, murmuring creatures.
I was born in a library, in the fiction stacks.
Goodreads is where introverts unite.
I am an avid reader.
I am self-educated from genre books.
And I still buy books at B&N, Borders and Elliot Bay ... I probably shouldn't admit this. But I don't care. I love great bookstores.
Seeing one's books on the shelf tells you so much about the way somebody has, over the years, put together their private library, which is a reflection of their minds and their selves.
The books are your teacher, after and before school.
When I was growing up, my house was filled with books. My mother was an educator, and my father was a history buff, so our home was a virtual library, covering every author from Beverly Cleary to James Michener.
Boston Latin School.
Note that the #1 Top Reviewer at Amazon (4550 book reviews) is Harriet Klausner, formerly an acquisitions librarian in Pennsylvania. This just goes to show that librarians were destined to rule the Web.
what are inside books may not all that necessarily be different from what are outside books at all
There are two kinds of books in this world. One improves the mind, the other the bank balance. Sometimes they're the same
but not often. Most publishers find combining the two is the only way to stay afloat.
Books are packaged dreams.
At heart, Pearson is in the intellectual property business, be it through publishing books or the 'Financial Times'.
What are the libraries of science but files of newspapers?
I teach for the Book Trust, which promotes reading and writing with children.
Reading that pleases and profits, that together delights and instructs, has all that one should desire.
The true University of these days is a Collection of Books.
I am a bookworm.
I'm just trying to get kids motivated to be readers by connecting them with a book they like.
Panic's Of Tremble1, is on Kindle form.
Google can bring you 100,000 answers but a librarian can bring you the right one.
~An Elegy for the Library
by Mahesh Rao
Books were my passion and my escape from madness.
One of my passions is that children enjoy their time at school - and reading for pleasure can be an important part of that.
For the price of a couple of Happy Meals, you can buy a digital textbook and stop your child from having to carry around a six-pound book.
What better place to kill time than a library?
I remember the first book I bought, when I was about 11 ... Dad said, 'What have you got that for? What are libraries for?'
For the first time in my life, I became actively interested in a book. Me the sports fanatic, me the game freak, me the only ten-year-old in Illinois with a hate on for the alphabet wanted to know what happened next.
I have always loved books, and as a mother, I wanted to share my passion for reading with my children.
I want to continue to strengthen Harvard's fabulous collections in old printed material, but at the same time, I want to help Harvard move into the world of digitized information.
Maybe the Kindle was the Bowflex of bookishness: something expensive that, when you commit to it, forces you to do more of whatever it is you think you should be doing more of.
Hey, amazon.ca, that's the online bookstore or whatever, right?
-Yep
-What's the website for that?
The love of libraries, like most loves, must be learned.
Now, 75 years [after To Kill a Mockingbird], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.
[Open Letter, O Magazine, July 2006]
Libraries are the wardrobes of literature, whence men, properly informed may bring forth something for ornament, much for curiosity, and more for use.
Books: our unfailing companions
Access to a school library results in more reading.
In 2004, one of my books, 'Whale Talk,' was chosen as an all-school read in Fowlerville, Michigan, a rural town not far from Detroit. They had done what I thought was a brilliant and innovative thing: decided to teach the book in every discipline, sophomores through seniors.
My life is build around books.
I was an A student and I liked creative writing.
Library: A place where the dead lie.
I was a library rat and a bookworm. I read all the time. I walked to school reading books. I read under my desk.
Like a lot of inwardly drawn young people, I spent a lot of time in libraries. At my high school, I often spent my lunch breaks there.
American Society for Psychical Research Journals were all around the house when I was a kid.
The humble little school library ... was a ramp to everything
in the world and beyond, everything that could be dreamed and
imagined, everything that could be known, everything that could be hoped.
Librarians save lives: by handing the right book, at the right time, to a kid in need
Meant-to-be-picked-up books. Permanently-left-behind books. Uncertain-what-to-do-with books. But books, books.
Shut not your doors to me proud libraries.
I hate that not everything ever written is on iBooks. Man, I hate paper.
Books is our main type of content, but we include user-generated content and will include other verticals such as scientific papers, sheet music, and comic books.
When the inner child finds a guardian angel, publishers are in heaven.
Books aren't lumps of paper, but minds on shelves.
Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.
The Arcade, and now Peabody's, combined to tell me that there was life in objects, in books. It was all about having eyes to see the true meaning of things. As Pike proved daily, books held a kind of magic, an apparent as well as a hidden value.
All my high school papers were written in the rare book room.
I read a lot as a kid and in high school.
Sidda can't help herself. She just loves books. Loves the way they feel, the way they smell, loves the black letters marching across the white pages ...
Libraries are zoos for books.
I was a librarian.
I teach a non-fiction writing class at New York University, and one of my great pleasures is deciding on the syllabus.
There's a tendency to make jazzy educational software that's very uniform and therefore just like school. I'd like to see a company develop software for rebellious kids who don't want to go to school.
and everywhere books, books, books,
I've drunk Amazon's free Diet Coke. Nothing makes more sense to me than a company trying to make bookselling into a profitable business. I'm not anti-Amazon, and I'm not pro-publishers either. I'm pro-books.
There was that special smell made up of paper, ink, and dust; the busy hush; the endless luxury of thousands of unread books. Best of all was the eager itch of anticipation as you went out the door with your arms loaded down with books.
Whitman Press will publish three children's textbooks, based on your creed, for which you'll deliver manuscripts and artwork. The three books are: 1. Dagon and Jill 2. The Shadow Over Humpty Dumpty 3. A Children's Necronomicon (with pop-up section)
My books were my friends.
Sometimes I would take Nietzsche or something. And I wouldn't read it, but more just scan the words. Sometimes I would get whatever the popular thing at the time was. I don't know, something like Bret Easton Ellis. It was just a very random, inefficient education.
Libraries are places that house our dreams, our fantasies, our thirst for adventure.
exclusive information on your favorite HarperCollins author.
Some people write letters, in the library.
The better the school library, the higher the reading scores.
My library was
all libraries are
a place of ultimate refuge, a wild and sacred space where meanings are manageable precisely because they aren't binding; and where illusion is comfortingly real.
A library is a path to the future
find yours there.
Libraries are magical places. There's nothing quite like strolling the hushed aisles, letting your eye rove along dimly lit shelves. Each spine, each title, seems to beckon with a promise of incredible wonders, surprises, and adventures.
School was a source of great suffering to me, but once I learned to read, I disappeared into books, where I was a happy visitor to all the worlds that sprang full-blown from the printed page.
What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education.
Your reciept is your library card.
On what killed the brick and mortar bookstores.
Books come from within.
I was in a bibliophile's Eylsium.
The public library is the great equaliser.
My life is an open library
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.