A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.Mark Twain (via deadwriters)
Final outcome for Interweb project- metaphor for the Kindle. There are 40 little books inside.
(via quiethouses)
“Among the many things the Japanese people are mourning this week are their libraries,” writes The Book Bench’s Macy Halford in memoriam. The 9.0-magnitude earthquake that kickstarted a ring of Pacific tsunamis, displaced thousands of people, and terminally damaged multiple nuclear reactors recently has also shaken the Japanese library system to its knees. Read more …
Awful.
“These are images of hope, as much as of disaster, and they speak to the idea that the things most fundamental to a culture—in this case, its codified knowledge—have not been lost.”
Seriously, you can. He said so himself:
Nothing has changed! The written word—the love of it and the power of the written word—it hasn’t changed. It’s a matter of fostering it, fertilizing it, not giving up on it, and having faith. Don’t get down. I actually have…
I need to read this whole series now. I want to be well-informed, but god it can be overly time consuming. Add this to the list, I guess.
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