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What Would C.S. Lewis Read?

June 1, 2012

The books of C.S. Lewis filled me with a sense of wonder & awe, and shaped my youthful vision of what it meant to be a whole, healthy, mature, and virtuous human being. But what books shaped him?

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Shelved with: Reading the Word|| Text & Context|| The Reading Life
Tagged With: Books, Bookselling
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The Feel of Books

November 1, 2011

It’s been a long time since we’ve asked questions like, “What good are paper & print for communicating ideas & stories?” And rarely, if ever, have we had reason to think of the feel of books (or for that matter, their smell) as something separate from the books themselves.

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Shelved with: The History & Future of Books|| The Reading Life
Tagged With: beauty, Book Publishing, Books, e-books, embodiment, Julian Barnes, Technology
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RCB Bookmarks, Mid-January, 2009

January 18, 2009

Links on culture, reading, and the web.

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Shelved with: Civic Life|| Community & Time|| Literacy|| The History & Future of Books|| The Reading Life
Tagged With: Bookmarks, Books, Civility, Dana Hanley, Digital Literacy, digitalculture, e-books, e-readers, Jason Epstein, Kassia Krozser, NEA, Peter Osnos, Politics, RCBLinks, Reading, Reading on the Rise, SpinStoppers, Voltaire
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The Infinite Book: The Plastic Logic Reader (and the Real Nature of Books)

December 28, 2008

A book is essentially whole, unitary — a little world of human thought, word, & spirit, chosen, shaped, and bound within its covers. Books are bundles; a book is what is bound together. For what makes a book more than it’s binding?

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Shelved with: Science & Technology|| The Reading Life|| Visual Arts
Tagged With: Andrew Golis, Andy McCourt, Book Arts, Book Publishing, Books, Digital Literacy, e-readers, Espresso Book Machine, Jorge Luis Borges, Library of Babel, Plastic Logic Reader, POD, Print Culture, Richard Archuleta
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Does Your Book Deserve My Vote?

September 4, 2008

Kids react to books much as they react to their favorite candidates: they like them because everyone else does, adding titles to their favorites list even when they haven’t read them. Voting for a Book, part of the Youth Radio series on NPR.

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Shelved with: Margin Notes|| Mind & Society|| Science & Technology|| Visual Arts
Tagged With: Books, Kids, Lissa Soep, Media Literacy, NPR, Politics, Radio, Technology, Youth Radio
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August, 1945

August 8, 2008

Sixty-three years ago this week, the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The enormity of the event, the inhuman scale of both this power and its consequences, is nearly impossible to communicate. How can one understand the power of a thousand suns unleashed upon whole cities? It became one of the defining stories for generations […]

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Shelved with: Continuing Stories|| Mind & Society|| Science & Technology|| The Reading Life
Tagged With: Books, Ellen Klages, Engineering, Girls, Hiroshima, History, Holidays, Keiji Nakazawa, Los Alamos, Math, Nagasaki, Reviews, Stories, Trinity, War & Peace
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