أما الغريب في الأمر فهو أننا لا ننقطع أبدًا عن ممارسة فعل القراءة على الرغم من أننا لا نملك تفسيرًا مرضيًا لما نفعله
На Калимах дължим и едно каталожно улеснение, което започва да се прилага най-широко: подреждането на книгите по азбучен ред.
Y hands, choosing a book to take to bed or to the reading-desk, for the train or for a gift, consider the form as much as the content. Depending on the occasion, depending on the place where I’ve chos...
Then one day, from the window of a car (the destination of that journey is now forgotten), I saw a billboard by the side of the road. The sight could not have lasted very long; perhaps the car stopped...
The web will not be the container of our cosmopolitan past, like a book, because it is not a book and will never be a book, in spite of the endless gadgets and guises invented to force it into that ro...
Reading in bed is a self-centered act, immobile, free from ordinary social conventions, invisible to the world, and one that, because it takes place between the sheets, in the realm of lust and sinful...
Our books will bear witness for or against us, our books reflect who we are and who we have been, our books hold the share of pages granted to us from the Book of Life. By the books we call ours we wi...
But there is something other than entertainment which one derives from reading in bed: a particular quality of privacy. Reading in bed is a self-centred act, immobile, free from ordinary social conven...
لا تحتاج المكتبة كي تكون نافعة أن تقرأ بمجموعها، إذ أن كل قاريء ينتفع من التوازن المناسب بين المعرفة و الجهل، التذكر و النسان.
كسلان ،واهن القوى ،متبجح ،متحذلق ،مدعي الانتماء إلى النخبةهذه الصفات وغيرها ألصقت على مر الأيام بالأستاذ الشارد الذهن ،بالقاريء القصير النظر ،وبالمولعين بالكتبمدفون في الكتب ،معزول عن عالم الحقائق وال...
كان تحمسي مفرطاً إلى درجة أني كنتُ أظن سأصبح إنسانة غير سعيدة إن لم أعثر دوماً على كتاب جديد أقرأه
إننا نجد في كل صفحة منن صفحات كتاب نطالعه آثار حياتنا الذاتية.
You don't immediately understand something like that, even when it's explained to you clearly. You don't understand it, because you don't know how to understand it. You lack that space in your mind th...
There is an unbridgeable chasm between the book that traditions had declared a classic and the book (the same book) that we have made ours through instinct, emotion and understanding: suffered through...
The various qualities of my readings seem to permeate my every muscle, so that, when I finally decideto turn off the library light, I carry into my sleep the voices and the movements of the book I've...
The power of readers lies not in their ability to gather information, in their ordering and cataloguing capability, but in their gift to interpret, associate and transform their reading.
Sartre, in his memoirs, confessed to much the same experience. Like Plato, I passed from knowledge to its subject. I found more reality in the idea than in the thing because it was given to me first a...
Partly, what we are may be what we believe we once were and lost.
Like the sea, the Web is volatile: 70 percent of its communications last less than four months. Its virtue (its virtuality) entails a constant present-which for medieval scholars was one of the defini...
Libraries, whether my own or shared with a greater reading public, have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as I can remember I've been seduced by their labyrinthine logic, whic...