Comments on: Whimsicality

By: PJ

PJ — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 23:36:22 +0000

I know of at least a few of us who won’t be.

By: Luna

Luna — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 11:18:34 +0000

Exactly! I don’t understand why everyone is so worried about the e-readers and how they will change the world, because I’m pretty sure that real book lovers will never give up their pages to an electronic gadget.

By: ryan field

ryan field — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 05:31:42 +0000

I have four different digital reading devices, but my print books are still important to me. I keep “On the Road ” on my night stand at all times,and Anne Tyler is always close by.

By: Andrea

Andrea — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:35:27 +0000

I love looking at them (which is why I don´t want an e-reader) and they somehow inspire me when I´m writing. Which is why I have a hardback version of the complete works of Shakespeare staring at me from the shelf above my writing desk. You never know… might help! 😉
One of my favorite quotes is from Mark Twain: “In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”
I want to live in a library…

By: Emily

Emily — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 05:26:36 +0000

Oh — for the artistic effect! My books are just a mess on the dresser, the living room floor, open shelving in the kitchen where I removed the wine rack which normal people fill up with wine bottles, and I discovered one of my new books under the coverlet on the sofa with one corner all chewed up because my 12-week old kitten likes to chew on books.

By: Kristin Laughtin

Kristin Laughtin — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 23:21:06 +0000

While I’ve weeded my print collection a little bit since getting an e-reader, I still feel that the full shelves I’ve kept add a lot to my room, and it would feel very different–and emptier–without them. In fact, I think a major reason I could bear to part with so much of my print collection is that I work in a library, and am surrounded by more books than I could ever own on a daily basis.

By: Julie Nilson

Julie Nilson — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 22:53:33 +0000

When you run out of space for books, you don’t STOP buying new ones–you give some old ones away! Donate them, give/lend them to friends, spread the love!

By: MS

MS — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 22:28:30 +0000

Whenever I go to estate sales with my husband, he heads for the garage while I search for the books! Every home has at least some…surprising what they can tell you about their previous owners!

By: Miriam

Miriam — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 20:51:09 +0000

Great anecdote! Doesn’t surprise me that Hillary, bless her heart, didn’t achieve the same effect as Jackie.

By: Miriam

Miriam — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 20:50:30 +0000

I do that with certain books too. If I love one that much how could everyone I know not have it for their very own?