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This blog started as a collection of links, notes and research on eBooks, digital libraries and related topics. It's since grown to incorporate libraries, librarians, books and reading in general. |
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Notes"We modern people are problem-solvers, but the demand for answers crowds out patience — and perhaps, especially, patience with mystery, with that which we cannot control. Intolerant of ambiguity, we deny our own ambivalences, searching for answers to our most anguished questions in technique, hoping to find an ultimate healing in technology."The Spirituality of Imperfection – wonderful 1993 read on storytelling and the search for meaning (via explore-blog)
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Notes"There’s no question that reading things in digital form has both pros and cons, but for me, overall, the pros outweigh the cons, most of the time. of course ebooks will not see the death of the physical book. Rather the opposite: the quality fo physical books will probably improve. Ebooks may very well see the death of the mass-market paperback, and that’s no great tragedy." -
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NotesFrom JG Ballard’s The Drowned World:
She sat beside him in her blue evening dress, her hair studded with three or four of the tiaras Strangman had looted from the old jewlery vaults, her breasts smothered under a mass of glittering chains and crescents, like a mad queen in a horror drama.
That’s pretty hot, right? It’s not just me.
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Notes"I think libraries are more vital now than they have ever been. And whatever form books take in the centuries and millennia to come, we will always need librarians."(Source: thelifeguardlibrarian)
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“A large part of On The Road’s powerful and ongoing appeal undoubtedly stems from the lyricism of its language — as opposed to its linearity, or even narrative coherence. Translating this to the screen could quite simply be impossible. Indeed, one suspects it is the reason that, up till now, so many screenwriters have failed in turning Kerouac’s text into visual form.” - M. M. Owen, “On The Road, On The Screen”
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“A large part of On The Road’s powerful and ongoing appeal undoubtedly stems from the lyricism of its language — as opposed to its linearity, or even narrative coherence. Translating this to the screen could quite simply be impossible. Indeed, one suspects it is the reason that, up till now, so many screenwriters have failed in turning Kerouac’s text into visual form.” - M. M. Owen, “On The Road, On The Screen”
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Since letting those with money jump queues is as American as mom, apple pie, and establishing military bases in foreign countries, that might not really be an objection. In America, you get what you can afford, whether it’s education, health care, or safe living conditions.
Thus, the response to this objection might be, so you can’t pay $.25/day to read the latest bestseller? Why don’t you go get a job instead of hanging around the library all day?
And it’s not as if $.25/day was a lot of money. It’s only a fraction of what a lot of Americans pay for their lattes every day.
On the other hand, any fee barrier is inherently undemocratic, especially for an institution that prides itself on serving everyone equally.
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Notes"Instead, nowadays everyone just uses Google to find stuff. This means that we all know exactly the same 10 (somewhat random) things about any given topic."“An Archivist,” Ask an Archivist, The Hairpin. (via thepinakes)
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Notes"I have not read ‘Fifty Shades of Grey,’ but I’ve read reviews of ‘Fifty Shades of Grey.’ From what I understand, it’s a lot about male dominance and female submissiveness."Don Walker, a spokesman for the Brevard County government (Florida Library Removes ‘Fifty Shades of Grey,’ Erotic Trilogy, from Shelves)
Thanks for your input, Don.
(via thelifeguardlibrarian)
(via thelifeguardlibrarian)
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“A large part of On The Road’s powerful and ongoing appeal undoubtedly stems from the lyricism of its language — as opposed to its linearity, or even narrative coherence. Translating this to the screen could quite simply be impossible. Indeed, one suspects it is the reason that, up till now, so many screenwriters have failed in turning Kerouac’s text into visual form.” - M. M. Owen, “On The Road, On The Screen”
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