“Reading . . . is a basic tool in the living of a good life.” -Mortimer J. Adler (Mortimer Jerome Adler (1902 - 2001)): “How to Read a Book” (1940), ‘Preface’
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” -Dr. Seuss (pseudonym of Theodor Seuss Geisel (1991)): “I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!” (12 November 1978)
Knock, knock.
Who’s there?
Rita.
Rita, who?
Rita book, you might learn something!
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In the 10th century, the Grand Vizier of Persia took his entire library with him wherever he went. The 117,000-volume library was carried by camels trained to walk in alphabetical order.
“Going to Aunt Mirandy’s is like going down to the cellar in the dark. There might be ogres and giants under the stairs, but as I tell Hannah, there might be elves and fairies and enchanted frogs!” -Kate Douglas Wiggin (1856 - 1923): “Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm” (1903)
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“It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.” -Henry P. Brougham
“‘What is the use of a book,’ thought Alice, ‘without pictures or conversations?’” -Lewis Carroll (pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832 - 1898)): “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” (1865), chapter 1
“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.” -Frederick Douglass (pseudonym of Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey (1817 - 1895))
A woman walked into a building and up to the counter. She said, “I’d like a hamburger with a side salad and a diet cola.” The person behind the counter said, “Ma’am, this is a library.” So the woman said in a low whisper, “I’m terribly sorry. I’d like a hamburger with a side salad and a diet cola.”
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Library: A hands-on book museum.
Rebecca: Who wrote mysteries about fried chicken?
Becky: Agatha Crispy.
A Branch Library
There is an old fellow named Mark,
Who lives in a tree in the park.
You can see him each night,
By his library light,
Turning over the leaves after dark.
By James Montgomery Flagg
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“The man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.” -Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910))
“Nothing is pleasanter than exploring a library.” -Walter Savage Landor (1775 - 1864)
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Mervin: What is the tallest building in town?
Marvin: The library, of course, because it is full of stories!
Raymond: Why does the ghost go back to the library every day for more books?
Rachelle: Because she goes through them so quickly.
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“If I have not read a book before, it is, to all intents and purposes, new to me, whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.” -William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830): “Men and Manners: Sketches and Essays” (1852): ‘On Reading New Books’ (1825)
Donald: Why do elephants never pay overdue fines?
Ronald: Elephants always take their library books back on time - they never forget!
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A compilation of writings, or ‘anthology,’ is a type of book that typically contains short written works such as quotations, poems, stories, or essays by many different authors, selected by the compiler or editor of the anthology. ‘Anthology’ is derived from the Greek expression for ‘flower gathering.’
“Sometimes you just have to turn the page to realize there is more to your book of life than the pages you’re stuck on. Stop being afraid to move on. Close this chapter of hurt, and never re-read it again. It’s time to get what your life deserves, and move on from the things that don’t deserve you. Don’t spend your days trying to correct your past, instead, let go and let God create something better for your future.” -Author Unknown
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Sylvia: What kinds of books do bunnies like?
Patrick: Ones with hoppy endings!
“Man is what he reads.” -Joseph Brodsky (Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky (1940 - 1996))
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“What time does the library open?” the man on the phone asked. “Nine a.m.,” came the reply. “And what’s the idea of calling me at home in the middle of the night to ask a question like that?” “Not until nine a.m.?” the man asked in a disappointed voice. “No, not until nine a.m.!” the librarian said. “Why do you want to get in before nine a.m.?” “Who said I wanted to get in?” the man sighed. “I want to get out!”
“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.” -Richard Steele (about 1672 - 1729): as quoted in the “Tatler” (1709 - 1711), number 147
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Overheard: Never turn down the opportunity to read a book, they are just movies for smart people.
Samantha: Why was the T-Rex afraid to go to the library?
Samuel: Because her books were sixty million years overdue!
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“There is very little difference between one who cannot read and one who will not read.” -Jim Rohn (Emanuel James ‘Jim’ Rohn (1930 - 2009)) at https://www.JimRohn.com
“There’s nothing to match curling up with a good book when there’s a repair job to be done around the house.” -Joe Ryan
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Sign on a bookstore in Jacksonville, Florida: Rare, Out-Of-Print, and Nonexistent Books.
Jimmy: How do librarians catch fish?
Jeremy: With bookworms.
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“There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.” -Bertrand Russell (Bertrand Arthur William Russell (1872 - 1970))
“Sometimes a library of words can’t say what a hug from a friend can.” -Author Unknown
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“I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library.” -Jorge Luis Borges (1899 - 1986)
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” -Dr. Seuss (pseudonym of Theodor Seuss Geisel (1991)): “I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!” (12 November 1978)
Knock, knock.
Who’s there?
Rita.
Rita, who?
Rita book, you might learn something!
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In the 10th century, the Grand Vizier of Persia took his entire library with him wherever he went. The 117,000-volume library was carried by camels trained to walk in alphabetical order.
“Going to Aunt Mirandy’s is like going down to the cellar in the dark. There might be ogres and giants under the stairs, but as I tell Hannah, there might be elves and fairies and enchanted frogs!” -Kate Douglas Wiggin (1856 - 1923): “Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm” (1903)
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“It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.” -Henry P. Brougham
“‘What is the use of a book,’ thought Alice, ‘without pictures or conversations?’” -Lewis Carroll (pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832 - 1898)): “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” (1865), chapter 1
“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.” -Frederick Douglass (pseudonym of Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey (1817 - 1895))
A woman walked into a building and up to the counter. She said, “I’d like a hamburger with a side salad and a diet cola.” The person behind the counter said, “Ma’am, this is a library.” So the woman said in a low whisper, “I’m terribly sorry. I’d like a hamburger with a side salad and a diet cola.”
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Library: A hands-on book museum.
Rebecca: Who wrote mysteries about fried chicken?
Becky: Agatha Crispy.
A Branch Library
There is an old fellow named Mark,
Who lives in a tree in the park.
You can see him each night,
By his library light,
Turning over the leaves after dark.
By James Montgomery Flagg
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“The man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.” -Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910))
“Nothing is pleasanter than exploring a library.” -Walter Savage Landor (1775 - 1864)
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Mervin: What is the tallest building in town?
Marvin: The library, of course, because it is full of stories!
Raymond: Why does the ghost go back to the library every day for more books?
Rachelle: Because she goes through them so quickly.
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“If I have not read a book before, it is, to all intents and purposes, new to me, whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.” -William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830): “Men and Manners: Sketches and Essays” (1852): ‘On Reading New Books’ (1825)
Donald: Why do elephants never pay overdue fines?
Ronald: Elephants always take their library books back on time - they never forget!
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A compilation of writings, or ‘anthology,’ is a type of book that typically contains short written works such as quotations, poems, stories, or essays by many different authors, selected by the compiler or editor of the anthology. ‘Anthology’ is derived from the Greek expression for ‘flower gathering.’
“Sometimes you just have to turn the page to realize there is more to your book of life than the pages you’re stuck on. Stop being afraid to move on. Close this chapter of hurt, and never re-read it again. It’s time to get what your life deserves, and move on from the things that don’t deserve you. Don’t spend your days trying to correct your past, instead, let go and let God create something better for your future.” -Author Unknown
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Sylvia: What kinds of books do bunnies like?
Patrick: Ones with hoppy endings!
“Man is what he reads.” -Joseph Brodsky (Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky (1940 - 1996))
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“What time does the library open?” the man on the phone asked. “Nine a.m.,” came the reply. “And what’s the idea of calling me at home in the middle of the night to ask a question like that?” “Not until nine a.m.?” the man asked in a disappointed voice. “No, not until nine a.m.!” the librarian said. “Why do you want to get in before nine a.m.?” “Who said I wanted to get in?” the man sighed. “I want to get out!”
“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.” -Richard Steele (about 1672 - 1729): as quoted in the “Tatler” (1709 - 1711), number 147
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Overheard: Never turn down the opportunity to read a book, they are just movies for smart people.
Samantha: Why was the T-Rex afraid to go to the library?
Samuel: Because her books were sixty million years overdue!
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“There is very little difference between one who cannot read and one who will not read.” -Jim Rohn (Emanuel James ‘Jim’ Rohn (1930 - 2009)) at https://www.JimRohn.com
“There’s nothing to match curling up with a good book when there’s a repair job to be done around the house.” -Joe Ryan
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Sign on a bookstore in Jacksonville, Florida: Rare, Out-Of-Print, and Nonexistent Books.
Jimmy: How do librarians catch fish?
Jeremy: With bookworms.
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“There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.” -Bertrand Russell (Bertrand Arthur William Russell (1872 - 1970))
“Sometimes a library of words can’t say what a hug from a friend can.” -Author Unknown
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“I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library.” -Jorge Luis Borges (1899 - 1986)
“What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.” -Carl Sagan (Carl Edward Sagan (1934 - 1996)): “Cosmos” (1980), ‘Part 11: The Persistence of Memory’
“You learn to read, and then you read to learn.” -Kirby Smith
“I always start reading a book in the middle. I get more out of it that way. I not only wonder how it’s going to end, I also wonder how it began.” -Author Unknown
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“I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed-reading contest. I hit a bookmark.” -Steven Wright (Steven Alexander Wright (born in 1955))
“When you give someone a book, you don’t give him just paper, ink, and glue. You give him the possibility of a whole new life.” -Christopher Morley (Christopher Darlington Morley (1890 - 1957))
God wove a web of loveliness,
Of clouds and stars and birds,
But made not anything at all
So beautiful as words.
-Anna Hempstead Branch (1875 - 1937)
“The world is like a book, but if you stay home, you only read one page.” -Author Unknown
“The love of reading enables a man to exchange the wearisome hours of life, which come to everyone, for hours of delight.” -Charles de Montesquieu (Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu, also known simply as Montesquieu (1689 - 1755))
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“Any ordinary man can . . . surround himself with two thousand books . . . and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.” -Augustine Birrell (1850 - 1933)
“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.” -Atwood H. Townsend (Atwood Halsey Townsend (1896 - 1967))
“He who reads is never alone.” -Helder Simone
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John Allen Paulos opens his book “Mathematics and Humor” (1980) with a paragraph that contains a story of a friend of his who took a speed-reading course. The friend mentioned this fact in a letter to his mother. His mother responded with a long, chatty letter in the middle of which she wrote, “Now that you’ve taken that speed-reading course, you’ve probably already finished reading this letter.”
“There is no friend as loyal as a book.” -Ernest Hemingway (Ernest Miller Hemingway (1899 - 1961))
Why pay a dollar for a bookmark when you can use the dollar itself as a bookmark?
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From 1853 comes a rule to be taken quite seriously: The perfect hostess will see to it that the works of male and female authors be properly separated on her bookshelves. Their proximity, unless they happen to be married, should not be tolerated.
Paula: Where does a librarian sleep?
Pamela: Between the covers.
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Abibliophobia (ay-bib-li-uh-fo-bee-uh): A persistent fear of being without books.
“I cannot live without books.” -Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826): letter (10 June 1885) to John Adams
“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all of the miseries of life.” -W. Somerset Maugham (William Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965))
“Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.” -Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
Riddle: What is easy to pick up and hard to put down?
Solution: A good book.
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“I was reading a book . . . ‘The History of Glue’ - I couldn’t put it down.” -Tim Vine (Timothy Mark ‘Tim’ Vine (born 1967))
“The books you read in your youth shape your thoughts and your character.” -Theodore W. Higginsworth
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“The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.” -Samuel Butler (also known as Samuel Butler the Younger (1835 - 1902))
Roger: Do you know how many librarians it takes to change a light bulb?
Gerald: No, but I know where you can look it up!
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“The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.” -James Bryce (1838 - 1922)
“Never judge a book by its movie.” -J. W. Eagan
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“Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.” -Stephen Fry
“You can never be wise unless you love reading.” -Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784): in a letter to Francis Barber, as quoted in Robert de Maria, Junior: “Samuel Johnson and the Life of Reading” (1997)
“A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon, and by moonlight.” -Robertson Davies
“Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.” -Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719): “The Tatler” (1711 - 1714), No. 147
Reading And Books Facts
- A foreword is usually written by someone other than the book’s author, and is often intended to promote or sell the book and the author’s reputation.
- A preface is an introduction to a book, stating its subject, scope, or aims.
- A table of contents is a list of divisions within a book, such as sections, chapters, or articles, and the numbers of the pages on which they begin.
- An index is an alphabetical list of names, subjects, and so forth, with the numbers of the pages where they can be found, and is usually placed at the end of a book.
“I figured I’d better get it in before we waited another ten years. Fifty-seven years would be embarrassing.” -Robert Nuranen (January 2007), returning a library book that was forty-seven years overdue
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“Master books but do not let them master you. Read to live, not live to read.” -Edward Bulwer-Lytton (Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873)): “The Caxtons” (1849), Part II, Chapter I
“If there’s a book you really want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.” -Toni Morrison
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“People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.” -Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946)
“He that loves reading has everything within his reach.” -William Godwin (1756 - 1836)
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“A book is a friend; a good book is a good friend. It will talk to you when you want it to talk, and it will keep still when you want it to keep still - and there are not many friends who know enough to do that. A library is a collection of friends.” -Lyman Abbott (Lyman J. Abbott (1835 - 1922))
“I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.” -Charles de Montesquieu (Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu, also known simply as Montesquieu (1689 - 1755))
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Reading And Books Quiz
- Why are the pages in books numbered?
- Are the even numbers on the left-hand or right-hand pages of books?
- What is a table of contents?
- What is a preface?
- What is the difference between foreword and forward?
- What is an index?
“Books will always be your greatest friends. They give you wisdom and advice. They are there when you need them, and quiet when you don’t.” -Author Unknown
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“There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.” -Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762)
If you were marooned on an island, what three books would you like to have with you?
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“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.” -Charles W. Eliot (Charles William Eliot (1834 - 1926))
Lydia: What kind of bugs enjoy good books?
Linda: Bookworms.
“A book is a dream that you can hold in your hands.” -Neil Gaiman
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“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of the past centuries.” -René Descartes (1596 - 1650)
“Books are no substitute for living, but they can add immeasurably to its richness.” -Mill Hill Arbuthnot
“Life is like a book. Each day is a new page. May your book be a bestseller, with adventures to tell, lessons to learn, and tales of good deeds to remember.” -Author Unknown
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“You learn to read, and then you read to learn.” -Kirby Smith
“I always start reading a book in the middle. I get more out of it that way. I not only wonder how it’s going to end, I also wonder how it began.” -Author Unknown
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“I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed-reading contest. I hit a bookmark.” -Steven Wright (Steven Alexander Wright (born in 1955))
“When you give someone a book, you don’t give him just paper, ink, and glue. You give him the possibility of a whole new life.” -Christopher Morley (Christopher Darlington Morley (1890 - 1957))
God wove a web of loveliness,
Of clouds and stars and birds,
But made not anything at all
So beautiful as words.
-Anna Hempstead Branch (1875 - 1937)
“The world is like a book, but if you stay home, you only read one page.” -Author Unknown
“The love of reading enables a man to exchange the wearisome hours of life, which come to everyone, for hours of delight.” -Charles de Montesquieu (Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu, also known simply as Montesquieu (1689 - 1755))
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“Any ordinary man can . . . surround himself with two thousand books . . . and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.” -Augustine Birrell (1850 - 1933)
“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.” -Atwood H. Townsend (Atwood Halsey Townsend (1896 - 1967))
“He who reads is never alone.” -Helder Simone
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John Allen Paulos opens his book “Mathematics and Humor” (1980) with a paragraph that contains a story of a friend of his who took a speed-reading course. The friend mentioned this fact in a letter to his mother. His mother responded with a long, chatty letter in the middle of which she wrote, “Now that you’ve taken that speed-reading course, you’ve probably already finished reading this letter.”
“There is no friend as loyal as a book.” -Ernest Hemingway (Ernest Miller Hemingway (1899 - 1961))
Why pay a dollar for a bookmark when you can use the dollar itself as a bookmark?
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From 1853 comes a rule to be taken quite seriously: The perfect hostess will see to it that the works of male and female authors be properly separated on her bookshelves. Their proximity, unless they happen to be married, should not be tolerated.
Paula: Where does a librarian sleep?
Pamela: Between the covers.
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Abibliophobia (ay-bib-li-uh-fo-bee-uh): A persistent fear of being without books.
“I cannot live without books.” -Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826): letter (10 June 1885) to John Adams
“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all of the miseries of life.” -W. Somerset Maugham (William Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965))
“Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.” -Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
Riddle: What is easy to pick up and hard to put down?
Solution: A good book.
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“I was reading a book . . . ‘The History of Glue’ - I couldn’t put it down.” -Tim Vine (Timothy Mark ‘Tim’ Vine (born 1967))
“The books you read in your youth shape your thoughts and your character.” -Theodore W. Higginsworth
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“The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.” -Samuel Butler (also known as Samuel Butler the Younger (1835 - 1902))
Roger: Do you know how many librarians it takes to change a light bulb?
Gerald: No, but I know where you can look it up!
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“The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.” -James Bryce (1838 - 1922)
“Never judge a book by its movie.” -J. W. Eagan
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“Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.” -Stephen Fry
“You can never be wise unless you love reading.” -Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784): in a letter to Francis Barber, as quoted in Robert de Maria, Junior: “Samuel Johnson and the Life of Reading” (1997)
“A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon, and by moonlight.” -Robertson Davies
“Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.” -Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719): “The Tatler” (1711 - 1714), No. 147
Reading And Books Facts
- A foreword is usually written by someone other than the book’s author, and is often intended to promote or sell the book and the author’s reputation.
- A preface is an introduction to a book, stating its subject, scope, or aims.
- A table of contents is a list of divisions within a book, such as sections, chapters, or articles, and the numbers of the pages on which they begin.
- An index is an alphabetical list of names, subjects, and so forth, with the numbers of the pages where they can be found, and is usually placed at the end of a book.
“I figured I’d better get it in before we waited another ten years. Fifty-seven years would be embarrassing.” -Robert Nuranen (January 2007), returning a library book that was forty-seven years overdue
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“Master books but do not let them master you. Read to live, not live to read.” -Edward Bulwer-Lytton (Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873)): “The Caxtons” (1849), Part II, Chapter I
“If there’s a book you really want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.” -Toni Morrison
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“People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.” -Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946)
“He that loves reading has everything within his reach.” -William Godwin (1756 - 1836)
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“A book is a friend; a good book is a good friend. It will talk to you when you want it to talk, and it will keep still when you want it to keep still - and there are not many friends who know enough to do that. A library is a collection of friends.” -Lyman Abbott (Lyman J. Abbott (1835 - 1922))
“I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.” -Charles de Montesquieu (Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu, also known simply as Montesquieu (1689 - 1755))
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Reading And Books Quiz
- Why are the pages in books numbered?
- Are the even numbers on the left-hand or right-hand pages of books?
- What is a table of contents?
- What is a preface?
- What is the difference between foreword and forward?
- What is an index?
“Books will always be your greatest friends. They give you wisdom and advice. They are there when you need them, and quiet when you don’t.” -Author Unknown
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“There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.” -Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762)
If you were marooned on an island, what three books would you like to have with you?
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“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.” -Charles W. Eliot (Charles William Eliot (1834 - 1926))
Lydia: What kind of bugs enjoy good books?
Linda: Bookworms.
“A book is a dream that you can hold in your hands.” -Neil Gaiman
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“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of the past centuries.” -René Descartes (1596 - 1650)
“Books are no substitute for living, but they can add immeasurably to its richness.” -Mill Hill Arbuthnot
“Life is like a book. Each day is a new page. May your book be a bestseller, with adventures to tell, lessons to learn, and tales of good deeds to remember.” -Author Unknown
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