Free public library services save each of their users nearly £1,500 a year, from hot-desking and wifi, newspapers and magazines, to ebooks, audio books and ... books https://t.co/19LXYvtTg5 Nice research from the Better Libraries team
Umberto Eco, who owned 50,000 books, had this to say about home libraries:
“It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy, as it is foolish to criticize those who buy more books than they will ever be able to read. It would be like saying that you should use all the cutlery or glasses or screwdrivers or drill bits you bought before buying new ones.
“There are things in life that we need to always have plenty of supplies, even if we will only use a small portion.
“If, for example, we consider books as medicine, we understand that it is good to have many at home rather than a few: when you want to feel better, then you go to the ‘medicine closet’ and choose a book. Not a random one, but the right book for that moment. That’s why you should always have a nutrition choice!
“Those who buy only one book, read only that one and then get rid of it. They simply apply the consumer mentality to books, that is, they consider them a consumer product, a good. Those who love books know that a book is anything but a commodity.”
BULL, BULL, BULL!
Outrageous stuff from Gary Anderson!
The Scot hits three successive bulls to pile the pressure on Littler, but the 17-year-old stands up to the pressure!
📺 https://t.co/lkfAqflnXa
#GSOD | SF
Why can't you buy giant breakfast muffins? Giant crumpets? Yep. But a giant muffin would be soooo much better. @AldiUK, get on it before @Warburtons do. Please?
Immigration is not the reason that you can’t get a hospital appointment, it’s the reason you can get one.
Please repost for all the people who can’t seem to grasp that.
The horrifying reality of being a woman, perfectly summarised by @_CaitlinORyan
If you give even the slightest shit about women, watch it all. This is what it’s like.
The NHS is appealing for people with O-type blood to urgently come forward and donate, after blood stocks dropped to "unprecedently low" levels in England.
https://t.co/cVHzT3rq3P