September 2010
In Scholastic Study, Children Like Digital Reading →
infoneer-pulse:
Many children want to read books on digital devices and would read for fun more frequently if they could obtain e-books. But even if they had that access, two-thirds of them would not want to give up their traditional print books.
These are a few of the findings in a study being released on Wednesday by Scholastic, the American publisher of the Harry Potter books and the...
Why you should write in your books →
austinkleon:
Filed under: marginalia.
I love this:
My freshman year in college I took a philosophy course from a professor who began by announcing that no textbooks would be used in his class. Plenty of books were required, however. “I want you to come out of this course with the beginnings of a good library,” the professor told us. “and textbooks have no place in such a library. Nothing in...
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50 Banned Books That Everyone Should Read →
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America’s 10 Greatest Comic and Graphic Novel... →
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“She reads with great concentration. Her eyes rarely move from the pages of her...”
– Haruki Murakami, After Dark (via distantheartbeats)
“No one knows how we really are…Like me, I’ll go to frickin Barnes & Nobles,...”
– – Jersey Shore star Snooki, revealing a little-known side of her, on The Ellen DeGeneres Show (via bangthevixen)
thealephant:
‘A good read. I can’t get away from it.’
Britney Spears, Glamour
That’s what it says on the back cover of my book Eat Pray Love.
I really don’t think an endorsement by Britney is going to make me want to read this book more. In fact, it’s making me question the value of this book now.
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