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Aug 27, 2010
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“ A book, being a physical object, engenders a certain respect that zipping electrons cannot. Because you cannot turn a book off, because you have to hold it in your hands, because a book sits there, waiting for you, whether you think you want it or not, because of all these things, a book is a friend. It’s not just the content, but the physical being of a book that is there for you always and unconditionally.
— Mo Willems (via libraryland)
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Aug 25, 2010
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» 10 Reading Revolutions Before E-Books

Title says it all. Fascinated by this bit:

My favorite reading revolution…isn’t very famous, even though it was conceived by the very famous media theorist Walter Benjamin. It’s the shift from vertical to horizontal writing, and then back to vertical again. He lays it out in his 1928 book One-Way Street:

If centuries ago [writing] began gradually to lie down, passing from the upright inscription to the manuscript resting on sloping desks before finally taking itself to bed in the printed book, it now begins just as slowly to rise again from the ground. The newspaper is read more in the vertical than in the horizontal plane, while film and advertisements force the printed word entirely into the dictatorial perpendicular.
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Aug 23, 2010
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California Raisins Rap - Books Check Em Out Ad from 1991

Pretty sure this is Sir Mix-A-Lot on this track…

Books
check ‘em out
Books
check ‘em out

Pick up a book
you got a fantasty?
imagination can take you to where you want to be
are you curious?
how can you find out?

Books
check ‘em out
Books
check ‘em out

At your library!

UPDATE: adamnorwood says:

Yep, that’s Mix-A-Lot. Animation by Will Vinton Studios (which later became Laika/house).
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A nice little photo-essay on reading Everywhere I go in the world, I see young and old, rich and poor, reading books. Whether readers are engaged in the sacred or the secular, they are, for a time, transported to another world…

A nice little photo-essay on reading

Everywhere I go in the world, I see young and old, rich and poor, reading books. Whether readers are engaged in the sacred or the secular, they are, for a time, transported to another world…
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Aug 16, 2010
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“ People say, ‘How do you have time to read?’ Oh, come on, it’s simple! You’re single and you don’t watch television.
— John Waters
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Aug 12, 2010
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“ I find it weird to meet writers who aren’t also big readers. Met one the other day at a bar and I looked at him queerly. He said he couldn’t find the time. This reminded me that readers are probably my people first, before writers. Writers are more likely to be dicks.
— Rosecrans Baldwin (via meaghano)
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Aug 02, 2010
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Ladies and gentleman, Better Book Titles. This blog is for people who do not have thousands of hours to read book reviews or blurbs or first sentences. I will cut through all the cryptic crap, and give you the meat of the story in one condensed image. Now you can read the greatest literary works of all time in merely seconds! Thanks, Maris!

Ladies and gentleman, Better Book Titles.

This blog is for people who do not have thousands of hours to read book reviews or blurbs or first sentences. I will cut through all the cryptic crap, and give you the meat of the story in one condensed image. Now you can read the greatest literary works of all time in merely seconds!

Thanks, Maris!

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“ I still plod along with books. Instant information is not for me. I prefer to search library stacks because when I work to learn something, I remember it.
— Harper Lee
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Jul 28, 2010
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Reading is Genealogical « The Illustrated Professor “…every book has been engendered by long successions of other books whose covers you may never see and whose authors you may never know but which echo in the one you now hold in your hand”—Alberto Manguel, A History of Reading

Reading is Genealogical « The Illustrated Professor

“…every book has been engendered by long successions of other books whose covers you may never see and whose authors you may never know but which echo in the one you now hold in your hand”
—Alberto Manguel, A History of Reading
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Jul 27, 2010
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“ The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles…
— Elizabeth Hardwick
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