Category: Read

Reading rooms.

Want a little glimpse of the inside of our home? (Hint: that’s not our home in the photo above). For a real glimpse – I am offering a peek into our personal library on Library Thing  – a project Brian has been working on… Continue Reading “Reading rooms.”

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Book Notes: The Belief Instinct

As we’ve seen throughout this book, our private experiences generated by thinking about our individual purpose, the meaning of life, the afterlife, why bad things happen to good people, and so on, are highly seductive, emotionally appealing, and intuitively convincing — in most cases… Continue Reading “Book Notes: The Belief Instinct”

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Book Notes: The Case for Books

Whatever the future may be, it will be digital. The present is a time of transition, when printed and digital modes of communication coexist and new technology soon becomes obsolete. Already we are witnessing the disappearance of familiar objects: the typewriter, now consigned to… Continue Reading “Book Notes: The Case for Books”

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Real book magic

On the theme of Sunday. E-books can’t do anything nearly this magical. Books aren’t just about what’s in them, they are a form of beauty unto themselves:

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Book factoid

One more reason E-Books will never be as good as hard copy books: “Lignin, the stuff that prevents all trees from adopting the weeping habit, is a polymer made up of units that are closely related to vanillin. When made into paper and stored… Continue Reading “Book factoid”

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