Reading wisdom

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Final outcome for Interweb project- metaphor for the Kindle. There are 40 little books inside.

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My Kindle's featured on Gamma Squad blog!

http://gammasquad.uproxx.com/2011/05/how-would-you-explain-a-kindle-to-charles-dickens#more-31868

Cool online blog Gamma Squad has made a post about the metaphorical Kindle for Charles Dickens I made, wooo! :)

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Interweb project: “Explain something modern/internet based to someone who lived and died before 1900”.  I made this to explain Amazon’s Kindle to Charles Dickens.

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My cartoon for this week’s Guardian Books.

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What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?

Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

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‘I want to savour every word’: the joy of reading slowly

Bragging rights seem to go to people who devour books, but, as this impatient reader found, turning the pages over many days or even weeks c

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Shannon Cartier Lucy (American, b. 1977), Day at the library, 2018. Oil on canvas, 23 x 17 in.

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Tom Gauld on last orders at the library – cartoon

It’s important to know your limits

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Mural in Luxembourg

by Youri Cansell

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The science-based benefits of reading

I absolutely love reading. Fiction, non-fiction, poems, blogs, newspapers, magazines. Unfortunately, in today’s world, we spend less time re

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Building an antilibrary: the power of unread books

Unread books are as powerful as the ones we read. An antilibrary is a private collection of unread books capturing the vastness of the unkno