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More on the Reading Study

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K.G. Schneider - “If this article wanted to really scare the pants off the public, it should have measured how many books people finish with how many gift books people have even opened.”

Three out of four people read books!

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The “news” that a sizable minority of the population doesn’t read books appears scary, until you turn it around. A thousand years ago, well over ninety percent of the population worked a long day and went home to…

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Debi for Rent!

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My pal Debi just posted her own “for rent” page on her site. She’s in the Chicago area, and is not only gifted with all those skills she describes — planning your company website, writing,…

Announcing Twitterprose

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This morning I created Twitterprose, a microblog for great lines from creative nonfiction, updated once every day.
Twitterprose owes its inspiration to Twitterlit, which has been seducing me for weeks with first lines…

This is why ALA Council is broken

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I\’ve been explaining for years that ALA Council is broken, and even suggesting how to fix it. If Council is too darn busy to hear from a member on an issue he knows something about, that just underscores everything I\’ve…

The Ithaka Report up in CommentPress

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Quite often, I really love librarians, and this is one of those times. The Scholarly Publishing Office at the University of Michigan Library has ported the intriguing Ithaka Report into CommentPress to make it easier to…