December 2010
57 posts
“Whenever I’m on a plane or a subway or train and I see someone nose-deep in a...”
– The New Yorker
<3 (via housingworksbookstore)
distantheartbeats asked: Hey Jason, thanks for the compliment on my blog. I didn't answer your question ask an ask because I knew I was doing an end of year list. I posted it today, if you want to have a look :)
Distant Heartbeats: Book Review: A Heartbreaking... →
Book #10 (I’ve been reading like my life depends on it these past few weeks)
“How lame this is, how small, terrible. Or maybe it is beautiful. I can’t decide if what I am doing is beautiful and noble and right, or small and disgusting. I want to be doing something beautiful, but am afraid…
A review of my favorite book, ever, from a great fellow Tumblr-er.
“In the ideal public library, we are all readers of the ‘middling...”
– Matthew Battles, Library: An Unquiet History
Once again, this is me asking you to recommend my... →
All Media is Social →
“So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its...”
– Roald Dahl (via libraryland)
New Year Book Suggestions, Please!
It’s the time of year when I buy most of my books. Do you all have any suggestions for a book I should purchase with my Christmas cash?
“I am simply a ‘book drunkard.’ Books have the same irresistible temptation for...”
– L.M. Montgomery (via starsmending)
“Today the sight that discourages book people most is to walk into a public...”
– Larry McMurtry, Books: A Memoir, p. 221
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“‘The problem with the Internet is that it gives you everything, reliable...”
– Basbanes, N. A. (2003). A splendor of letters: The permanence of books in an impermanent world. New York: HarperCollins.
“Everyone loves libraries, but library workers can’t live on love alone. Just ask...”
– The American Library Association (via librarianista)
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This is me asking you to recommend my Tumblr. →
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“I have no feelings of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will...”
– Alberto Manguel (via housingworksbookstore)
schubertiads:
Coventry Carol (string quartet...
“Books, we are told, are a half-millennium-old technology on the cusp of being...”
Digital Copyright Slider →
A Defense of Pagination →
“The word “information” has grown urgent and problematic—a signpost seen...”
– James Gleick, The Information Palace (via nybooks)
“The librarian of today, and it will be true still more of the librarians of...”
– William Osler (via librarianista)
“Trust in the survival of the word, as well as the urge to destroy it, is as old...”
– Alberto Manguel
“The physical book is never more than an ingenious and often beautiful cipher by...”
– Archibald MacLeish
“For the first time in the history of human communication, access to huge...”
– Basbanes, N. A. (2003). A splendor of letters: The permanence of books in an impermanent world. New York: HarperCollins, pp. 20-21.
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“A book is tremendously important. Nobody ever paid for the price of a book, they...”
– Louis I. Kahn
