Libraries
When reading is your one true love ❤️
How do we #LoveReading? Let us count the ways. If reading is your one true love, celebrate your Valentine’s Day the library way with these
February 13, 2020 No Comments
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Books
National Library Shelfie Day
#Library#Shelfies offer book stores, libraries, schools, and individuals an opportunity to express their reading preferences through a single photograph. Today is your day to share
January 22, 2020 No Comments
Books
A library of one’s own: Meet the man who owns 12,000 books and now organizes the Melbourne Rare Book Week.
“Once upon a time, a university student called Chris Browne decided to take up book collecting. It was 1970, and he bought a first edition
June 24, 2019 No Comments
Books
24 Children’s Stories That Still Give Us the Creeps
Atlas Obscura readers wrote in about the classic tales that taught them one thing—unease. The stories and books we consume as children can stick with
January 29, 2019 No Comments
History
Protect Your Library the Medieval Way, With Horrifying Book Curses
Medieval scribes protected their work by threatening death, or worse. In the Middle Ages, creating a book could take years. A scribe would bend over
January 29, 2019 No Comments
Books
Heywood Hill, the Legendary London Bookshop Outfitting the World’s Best Private Libraries | Architectural Digest
Buying a best-selling thriller for an escapist read is one thing. Assembling an array of books for a library that is tailor-made to one’s own
January 16, 2019 No Comments
Books
Giant bird book gets rare public outing – BBC News
Rare Audubon bird book displayed at Liverpool library – One of the world’s rarest books by the 19th Century US artist and ornithologist John James
January 16, 2019 No Comments
Books
The Christmas Book Flood: Iceland’s Literature-Loving Holiday Tradition | Mental Floss
Bibliophiles, now this is a Holiday tradition I could get used to! In Iceland, the most popular Christmas gifts aren’t the latest iProducts or kitchen
December 13, 2018 No Comments
Books
Do you take books with you when you travel?
freckles-and-books: Trying my hardest not to pack more books than I’ll need for my trip to California this week. Must whittle this pile down!
November 21, 2018 No Comments
Books
Christmas list… guess what? Books.
diverse-reads: Christmas List 1. Books 2. More books 3. Even more books
November 18, 2018 No Comments
Quote of the Day
Book Quote of the Day
“The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?”
October 30, 2018 No Comments
Quote of the Day
Quote of the Day
relatablepoetryandquotes: “Do whatever brings you to life, then. Follow your own fascinations, obsessions, and compulsions. Trust them. Create whatever causes a revolution in your heart.”
October 29, 2018 No Comments
Quote of the Day
Book Quote of the Day
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own voice… and just
September 24, 2018 No Comments
Books
Child-sorting schemes in YA fiction: a taxonomy of taxonomies
1980s high school comedy cliques with fancy Latin names Doesn’t want to admit it’s just Earth/Wind/Water/Fire List of animals the author thought were cool in
September 21, 2018 No Comments