Blue October
WPA poster: “A good time to Read!”
Banned Books Week
Celebrating the freedom to read.
“Share Curiosity. Read Together.”
With apologies to H.A. Rey, Margret Ray, and the gummint.
Most frequently challenged books
“The logic of book-banners would seem to dictate that the Penguin House itself be closed to children, no?”
Amazon Kindle with Euphemism
Amazon has introduced a cheaper Kindle with Euphemism.
For dummies
A Google search that led someone to Orange Crate Art: the mixed up files of Mrs basil e. Frankweiler for dummies.
On One Morning in Maine
Elaine Fine's favorite book from childhood
BUCK TO READING: DROP DEAD
No books in this principal's school!
Students and books
The appeal of paper
"[T]he social value of reading"
Verlyn Klinkenborg on what the iPad and Kindle do to the social value of reading
Jay Bennett (1912–2009)
He wrote one of the best books of my youth
The Streak
A father and daughter reading
Do It, Dolt
Testing a user interface at Apple Computer, 1982
Geoffrey Chaucer, Ezra Pound, B.P.E.
Reading Chaucer before Post-it Notes
Children, “best readers in the world”
Novelist Katherine Paterson on her readers
Walt Mossberg reviews the Nook
“It's not fully baked yet.”
David Pogue reviews the Nook
A “bad case of Ship-at-All-Costs-itis”
PUSH
An old metal sign, good advice for reading, writing, and teaching.
Princeton students and the Kindle
“I hate to sound like a Luddite, but this technology is a poor excuse of an academic tool,” said Aaron Horvath ’10, a student in Civil Society and Public Policy. “It’s clunky, slow and a real pain to operate.”
Reading Rainbow ends
After 26 years
Walter Benjamin on readers and writers
It is a truth universally acknowledged, sort of, that we are all writers now. Walter Benjamin’s observations suggest that we were all writers “then,” too.
Reading and not reading in Jersey City
Excerpts from Helene Stapinski's Five-Finger Discount
"Tests," "tears"
Fun at the eye doctor
Nabokov's index cards, coming in November
Publishers Weekly review of the unfinished Nabokov novel
Books, books, jive sugar
A wall of books and other items
Books and guns
"What guns are for some people, books are for me."
Nicholson Baker and the Kindle
"This was what they were calling e-paper? This four-by-five window onto an overcast afternoon?"
Love Is Like Park Avenue
Forthcoming book by Alvin Levin
Fresh cookies, fresh ironing
Proustian passage from a childhood book
Amazon and Orwell
Removing books from Kindles