As a reader, I do a lot of book reviews. I didn’t used to, but in the past year I’ve discovered Goodreads, and I review all of the books that I read on my Kindle. Reviews allow me to sing the praises of a book I really love and it allows me to vent when [...]
The great debate about the downfall of printed books and the role that ebooks play in that downfall still rages on. I’ll start this post with a quote highlighted in a book I’m currently reading, The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future .
“…I have lately kept praising the age in which we live, because [...]
In last weeks post about book mending I mentioned that one of my duties at the Wasilla Public Library is to mend the circulating books when they come back damaged. it’s a job that I really enjoy.
In this post, I’ll walk you through the steps for mending a very common kind of problem: A broken [...]
One of the responsibilities I have at the Wasilla Public Library is the mending of the circulating books, videos and other media. The impression I have is that the mending of books is not one of the jobs at the library that holds “favored nation status”. I happen to love it. There is something about [...]
I was spending a little bit of time looking through a book on book conservation the other day. I had caught up my book mending at the library and was learning more about some of the book terminology when I ran across a section of the book with some photographs of some rare books. They [...]
