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10 June 2008 13:25

A necessary change in reading?

I often write about reading in this blog; it is a fairly natural - even logical - progression or collocation for anyone thinking about information, books or libraries. In Is Google Making Us Stupid , Nicholas Carr wonders if - like the Italian humanist Read More...
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03 June 2008 10:27

Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine

… and what does Ray Bradbury mean when he says that There is no future for e-books because they are not books at BookExpo America When, or indeed, why is a book not a book? If we take digitized version of William Blake’s Songs of Innocence , or even of Read More...
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12 May 2008 15:02

Counterpoint: On reading and design

In a 2006 keynote paper , Michael Jon Jenson, wrote that - having previously forecast the end of paper books, he had discovered that he was wrong: My fundamental error was in thinking that technology was the driver, rather than the human culture using Read More...
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12 May 2008 02:25

On reading groups

I don't know how your library's reading groups work, but ours are led by librarians. They meet every four weeks, and everyone turns up having read the same book. We also have reading circles, which have more of a free-for-all vibe. There's one school Read More...
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11 May 2008 09:48

On reading and design

I was reading a piece in the Columbia Journalism Review by Ezra Klein, The Future of Reading , which explores his experiences with a Kindle, and - more generally - with reading on something that is not paper-based. Klein quotes William Powers’s brilliant Read More...
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