The joy of books (and bookshops)
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HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
Nice Vid, one for Conan the Librarian, job of books 
vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
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- Meanwood, Leeds
Fantastic.
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
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- lost somewhere
We love paper books. Lovely video. Thank you.
Dayvo
just passin' through
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Nice Vid, one for Conan the Librarian, job of books
Great video. My sister's a school librarian and Conan is her nickname as she's slightly formidable!
I'll send her the link.
Oh, I'm sure they do. Books have been with us for at least 3000 years and no poxy little bit of plastic and silicon is going to supplant them.
funnymummy
A Dizzy M.A.B.I.L
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- Lancing West Sussex
I am a bookworm, I love reading, I love the feel of a real book, the smell, the texture of the paper..and i've got shelves full of books that i can never bare to part with.
But... I have discovered the joys of the Kobo app on my phone, it will never replace a real book, but over the last 2 months has been invaluable. I carry my phone everywhere with me, it's only 3x5" sometimes it's just not practical to carry a hefty book, sometimes 2nd best is actulay pretty good
But... I have discovered the joys of the Kobo app on my phone, it will never replace a real book, but over the last 2 months has been invaluable. I carry my phone everywhere with me, it's only 3x5" sometimes it's just not practical to carry a hefty book, sometimes 2nd best is actulay pretty good
Scilly Suffolk
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Medicine For The Soul - inscription over the door of the library at Thebes.
beanzontoast
Guru
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- South of The Peaks
Lovely video. Books are amazing things. I've kept hold of a lot of them since I was a child, including dictionaries that I used 45 years ago, the first science fiction books I read as a teenager, the first encyclopaedia I ever had (second hand, and full of 1950's references to a world long changed now), my first Patrick Moore astronomy book - 40 years old and going strong. They share shelf space with hundreds of other books that each have places and times associated with them - how I acquired them, where I was when I first read them. Nothing can supplant the memories they bring turning the pages. We've kept all our own childrens' books for them too.
I read a fair bit electronically - it's useful and serves a purpose. In my mind there's room for both formats to co-exist as they are to me quite different experiences and I can't see me ever getting sentimental about an electronic copy of any text!
I read a fair bit electronically - it's useful and serves a purpose. In my mind there's room for both formats to co-exist as they are to me quite different experiences and I can't see me ever getting sentimental about an electronic copy of any text!
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