Return of real books
Friend: This one is strictly for book lovers. Many years ago when I was in a mofussil college I had a friend attending a class of two, yes just two students. They were doing B A (English literature). Then he went to a large city college to do his Masters, stopped writing to me after some time and one day suddenly disappeared from the scene. Even when he was an undergrad student his home was full of books - hundreds of them and he was a voracious reader. Eventually he became a bookseller and publisher, when I traced him. I asked him how was his reading going. He said, "I stopped reading books when I started selling them." Most librarians, pardon me, are like my friend. We stopped reading books when we started working in libraries, ordering books, classifying and cataloging them and keeping track of them. Today, a friend in Bombay, a true multitasker of exceptional talent, alerted me to a new book which talks about how print is coming back and is on its way to regaining its original glory thanks to the designers. Please read: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/may/14/how-real-books-trumped-ebooks-... Arun http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4398-4658 http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-9925-2009 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
Thanks for a post comforting that physical - printed - books are coming
back.
As you observed, lot of librarians are poor book readers, including me.
I read just enough to judge whether a book / article / web page / patent is
of interest to any of my customers. But that takes a lot of time and indeed
something worthwhile from what I read seeps in.
My daughter gave me the book "Apprenticeship to a Himalayan Master - A
Yogi's Autobiography" by Sri M, Magenta Press, 2010. It is still staring at
me for the past three days!!
Dr P Vyasamoorthy
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engagement and thinking young are seven secrets of successful ageing.
On 21 May 2017 at 05:31, Subbiah Arunachalam
Friend:
This one is strictly for book lovers.
Many years ago when I was in a mofussil college I had a friend attending a class of two, yes just two students. They were doing B A (English literature). Then he went to a large city college to do his Masters, stopped writing to me after some time and one day suddenly disappeared from the scene. Even when he was an undergrad student his home was full of books - hundreds of them and he was a voracious reader. Eventually he became a bookseller and publisher, when I traced him. I asked him how was his reading going. He said, "I stopped reading books when I started selling them."
Most librarians, pardon me, are like my friend. We stopped reading books when we started working in libraries, ordering books, classifying and cataloging them and keeping track of them.
Today, a friend in Bombay, a true multitasker of exceptional talent, alerted me to a new book which talks about how print is coming back and is on its way to regaining its original glory thanks to the designers.
Please read:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/may/14/how-real- books-trumped-ebooks-publishing-revival
Arun http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4398-4658 http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-9925-2009
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