A truck loaded with thousands of copies of Roget's Thesaurus spilled its load leaving New York
Witnesses were stunned, startled, aghast, stupefied, confused, shocked, rattled, paralyzed, dazed, bewildered, surprised, dumbfounded, flabbergasted, confounded, astonished, and numbed.
Intriguing binding of this Bible printed in Oxford in 1756 enables exceptionally keen readers to consult both the Old and New Testaments at the same time https://t.co/1SZpq6f2Tc
The Brooklyn Public Library has announced that any teenager in America is now eligible for a Brooklyn Public Library card.
Teens can sign out ebooks + audiobooks from wherever they live.
The move is designed to combat censorship, with some titles listed as "always available."
Today a woman with developmental disabilities came into the library, and said she was lost. She didn't know her address, but her phone number was in her pocket on a piece of paper with Elmo on it. She kept saying, "The library is a safe place."
Props to @TheSunMagazine for the classiest, most considerate “no” I have received in some time. Were rejections always this kind. No wonder I like them.
There must be something in the water in Savannah because these kids were assassins. Lovely, bright assassins, but damn.
(Also if you're here I'll be speaking at the Savannah Book Festival tomorrow!)
Here’s the modest 1906 library of ultra-wealthy US banker & benefactor Pierpont Morgan in New York. Access to balconies was by staircases concealed behind the bookcases. It's now a museum, but you can also take a 3-D tour at https://t.co/YQvvzR4gVd
You can order clothes and gadgets by mail, have food and prescriptions delivered to your door, and now, if you live in Hillsborough County, library books can be shipped right to your house. https://t.co/gIvKBeosEe
@11tulips The great danger with books in schools is not that some parents may isolate passages out of context and get a book removed. The great danger is that students can't find a book relevant to their lived experience, and then don't read or can't read.
I'd like to go to a luxury resort where instead of golf and tennis courts, there's a gorgeous library with crackling fires and the comfiest chairs and servers bring you drinks and canapes while you read all day long.
I’m admiring these intricate paper sculptures by English artist Su Blackwell, who creates these new worlds by transforming pages of old secondhand books https://t.co/ng5CFnMLsN
Hahahaha!! Anyone else see TV commercial for the Book-of-the-Month club? 1) Had no idea it was still a thing, 2) Hilarious commercial. https://t.co/4zu6zrFZ7V