Here are the cold facts:America's boys are the most violent in the industrialized world. 50% of all minority male students drop out of school. 87% of boys play explicitly violent video games. 92% of convicted violent felons are male. Seattle-based BoysRead.org is an organization of parents, educators, librarians, mentors, author that believes that "male literacy is part of the solution."In 2004 the NEA study, "Reading at Risk: a Survey of Literary Reading in America," found that reading by young men plummeted from 55 percent to 43 percent; by working to develop a lifelong passion for reading in boys, which includes...
The Perfect Shelf for Your Kindle, IPhone or E-Book Reader
The folks at Not Tom design studio have done it; perhaps unintentionally.The good old book has become the fodder for what might be the perfect charging station for your electronic reading devices.Here's how the design came about:The idea for the Book Book Shelf came from the realisation of how many books are discarded on a regular basis. These particular books were to be thrown out at the end of a jumble sale and we wondered what more could be made of them. We like the idea that value can be added to many discarded items through ingenuity and redefinition of...
ABC’s of Book Collecting : All Published
ALL PUBLISHEDThis means that, despite appearances or an original intention to thecontrary, the volume or series described was not continued, and isthus as complete as it ever can be in this form, given its (usually)unexpected truncation.Previous ABC's of Book Collecting postsCarter, John & Nicolas BarkerABC's of Book Collecting. 8th EditionNew Castle, Delaware : Oak Knoll Press, 2004Buy a copy
Corporate Censorship Trumps School Library Censorship
“If Wal-Mart won’t carry a book because they think it’s steamy — or just good — that will affect your book more than any school district” Fran Lebowitz speaking at the launch party for the Free Speech Leadership Council sponsored by the National Coalition Against Censorship.Mokoto Rich, A Fireside Chat About Book Burning, at Paper CutsPhotos from the inaugural event.
Help Wanted: Professional Reader
To provide cogent, erudite and insightful marginalia to digital books and thus help foster social reading. Must be able to read in a crowd and accept potentially constant input and distraction. Digital sociability a must; digital loners, misfits, hermits, screwballs need not apply.As Clive Thompson writes in The Future of Reading in the Digital World in this month’s issue of Wired, “We need to stop thinking about the future of publishing and think instead about the future of reading…Books have a centuries-old tradition of annotation and commentary, ranging from the Talmud and scholarly criticism to book clubs and marginalia.”Bob Stein,...