Kitaplarla şaşkına dönmüş Don Quijote ve hac yolcusu Dante, öğrendikleriyle felce uğrayan Prens Hamlet, okuduklarıyla yaşamak istediği hayatı birbirine karıştıran Emma Bovary..
I think I read in at least two ways. First, by following, breathlessly, the events and the characters without stopping to notice the details, the quickening pace of reading sometimes hurtling the stor...
I soon discovered that one doesn't simply read or . One reads a certain edition, a specific copy, recognizable by the roughness or the smoothness of its paper, by its scent, by a slight tear on page...
Every book can be, for the right reader, an oracle, responding on occasion even to questions unasked..
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The point, the essential quality of the act of reading, now and always, is that it tends to no foreseeable end, to no conclusion. Every reading prolongs another, begun in some afternoon thousands of y...
Any library, by its very existence, conjures up its forbidden or forgotten double: an invisible but formidable library of the books that, for conventional reasons of quality, subject matter or even vo...
نحن نعرف أننا نقرأ حتى عندما نتخلى عن عدم تصديقنا , وعندما نفقد القربى من النص ; نحن نعرف لماذا نقرأ حتى عندما لا نعرف كيف نقرأ ; في الوقت نفسه نحتفظ في عقولنا بالعالم الظاهري للنص ونتمسك بفعل القراءة...
غير أن القراءة بالفراش تعتبر أكثر من مجرد تمضية للوقت, إنها تمثل نوعاً من الوحدة فالمرء يتراجع مركزاً على ذاته ويترك الجسد يرتاح,ويجعل من نفسه بعيداً لا يمكن الوصول إليه مخفياً عن العالم
إذا كان الكتاب مستعملاً أدع كل الإشارات التي دونت على حالها... الإشارة الوحيدة التي أناضل لإزالتها من كتبي (وغالبا دون نجاح يذكر) هي لصقة السعر التي يضعها بائعو الكتب الحقودين على ظهر الكتب، هذه الدمل...
There are those who, while reading a book, recall, compare, conjure up emotions from other, previous readings <...> This is one of the most delicate forms of adultery.
Lesen ist eine Erinnerungsarbeit, bei der wir durch Geschichten in den Genuss der vergangenen Erfahrungen anderer kommen, als wären es unsere eigenen.
Instead, I practiced different forms of reading. The possibilities offered by books are legion. The solitary relationship of a reader with his or her books breaks into dozens of further relationships:...
I quickly learned that reading is cumulative and proceeds by geometrical progression: each new reading builds upon whatever the reader has read before.
Each technology has its own merits, and therefore it may be more useful to leave aside this crusading view of the electronic word vanquishing the printed one and explore instead each technology accord...
Each reader is but one chapter in the life of a book, and unless he passes his knowledge on to others, it is as if he condemned the book to be buried alive.
But who shall be the master? The writer or the reader?
Books have long been instruments of the divinatory arts.
As any reader knows, a printed page creates its own reading space, its own physical landscape in which the texture of the paper, the colour of the ink, the view of the whole ensemble acquire in the re...
Alexandria and its scholars […] never mistook the true nature of the past; they knew it to be the source of an ever-shifting present in which new readers engaged with old books which became new in the...