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Knowledge is power, Compassion is giving. Donate books (in English or French) or donate funds to end the book famine in Africa.…
Then I thought of reading The nice & subtle happiness of read This joy not dulled by age This polite and unpunishable vice This selfish, serene, life-long intoxication - Logan Pearsall Smith.…
Giraffe has the right of it! ... The difference between real book-lovers and poseurs ... Pearl before Swine comic strip @ Steve Pastis.
A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe. - Madeleine L'Engle.
Art by Georges Pavis, 1924. Bookworm & Bluestocking Humor.
A reader to the very end...
On KidLit ... ... ... "Make it a rule to never give a child a book that you would not read yourself." - George Bernard Shaw ... ... ... ... "A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is…
Whether rare first editions or cheap paperbacks, seal all incoming used books in plastic bags for at least a day or two before shelving them. Highly recommend this practice.
The Truth
Read, read, read. Read everything - trash, classics, good and bad. - William Faulkner. https//www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/growing-surrounded-books-may-bolster-skills-later-life-180970523/ ... A…
The best vending machine ever!
A Reader's Manifesto © Grant Snider
A library is a hospital for the mind.
Library: Where the Adventure begins ©'d tee-shirt design
The Alchemist by Paul Coelho. Illustrated by Vladislav Erko.
Ex Libris poem by Robert Browning. Robert Browning (7 May 1812 - 12 December 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of the dramatic monologue made him one of the foremost Victorian…
Art by Wemedge's daughter (Reddit). Tsundoku (Japanese: 積ん読) is acquiring reading materials but letting them pile up in one's home without reading them. The term originated in the Meiji era…
How to Disinfect Used Books!
Extremists have shown what frightens them most: A girl with a book. - Malala Yousafsai. Amnesty.org
Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and live it and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone…
I think therefore I read. Design © Rachel Grohall.
A Good Book makes you want to live in the story. A Great Book gives you no choice. Art © Andrew Ferez (Artist, Russia) @ DeviantArt.com ... Don't plagiarize. Credit the artist.
The Reader, bronze, 2010 © Rodger Jacobsen (Artist, USA) ... Don't plagiarize. Credit the artist.
Think, 2009 © Thibodeau Photography ... Don't plagiarize. Credit the artist.
Library Head, 1999 © Paul Rumsey (Artist, England) ... Don't plagiarize. Credit the artist.
I do not want to just read books. I want to climb inside them and live there. - anon. Alte Weisheiten / Old Wisdom, 2011 photo © Michi64 (Photographer, Germany) @ FotoCommunity.de ... Don't…
Spring Flora © Mandy Lynn @ etsy.com ... Don't plagiarize. Credit the artist.
I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me. - Emerson. Linocut © Ken Swanson @ etsy.com ... Don't plagiarize. Credit the artist.
Charles Dickens' Summer Home: Bleak House, Broadstairs, Kent, England.
Classic Tales © Charles Wysocki (Artist, USA) ... Don't plagiarize. Credit the artist.
Bedroom/Library design © Gerard Roland. Photo © Christophe Rouffio. ... Don't plagiarize. Credit the artists.
It is not how many books you have, but rather the quality - Seneca. Art © Miquel Herranz @ flickr.com ... Don't plagiarize. Credit the artist.
Bejeweled Book of Hours @ Victoria & Albert Museum, London. 2008 photo © Kotomi-Jewelry ... Don't plagiarize. Credit the artist.
Cover of Forty Disciples, 1489.
The World is a Book. Those who don't Travel read only a Single Page. Design © DangerDust. ... Don't plagiarize. Credit the artist.
Adventures of the Spirit © Deborah Dewit (Artist, USA) @ SimpleMindsCards.com ... Don't plagiarize. Credit the artist.
Books build a stairway to your imagination. Art © Jeremiah Morelli (Artist, Germany) ... Don't plagiarize. Credit the artist. Case in point, Credit Thief: Stifyn Emrys.
I could spend the read of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity, because you can hardly mention anything I'm not curious about. - Malcolm X. Meme from DontEatThePaste.com
He liked all books, because he liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head. - John Green, An Abundance of Katherines. Art ©…
After all - there is nothing like a Good Book! 1925 © Jon O. Brubaker (Artist, USA). ... Don't plagiarize. Credit the artist.
No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally - and often far more - worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond. - C. S. Lewis.
Cats on Books © ehagakiy.houkou-onchi.com (Artist, Japan) ... Don't plagiarize. Credit the artist.
Books Fall Open poem by David McCord (1897-1997)
What you read when you don't have to determines what you will be when you can't help it. - Oscar Wilde. Design © Eleanor Margaret @ flickr.com ... Don't plagiarize. Credit the artist.
I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library - Jorge Luis Borges. Art © Christina Carroll (Artist, USA) @ etsy.com ... Don't plagiarize. Credit the artist.
Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are. - Mason Cooley. Print © Jaenne (Artist, USA) @ zazzle.com ... Don't plagiarize. Credit the artist.
Here's to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy - Charlaine Harris. Photo © Traci Tessone @ whimsydecor.blogspot.com ... Don't plagiarize. Credit the artist.
Diving into books © Jayme Sifuentes (Cartoonist, Mexico) ... Don't plagiarize. Credit the artist.
Books are open doors to other dimensions where everything is possible and nothings is forbidden. - Danny Tyran. Art © Gürbüz Doğan Ekşioğlu (Cartoonist, Turkey). ... Don't plagiarize. Credit…
We collect books in the belief that we are preserving them when in fact it is the books that preserve their collector. - Walter Benjamin. Print © BookCollecting101 @ cafepress.com
Book lovers will understand me and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence - Jan Morris. Print © Rachel Diamond-Calow (Artist, USA) @…
New Ark (1997) © Victor Bregeda (Artist, Russia). ... Don't plagiarize. Credit the artist.
Second hand books are wild books, homeless books, they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack. - Virginia Wolf…
Moravian Book Shop, established 1745, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Oldest Extant Bookstore in the USA. 2009 photo © krissychick999 @ flickr.com ... Don't plagiarize. Credit the artist.
Bookman's Corner, Chicago, Illinois. Books: Rare - Medium - Well Done. Photo © RK NCY @ flickr.com & Getty Images. ... Don't plagiarize. Credit the artist.
Monkey's Paw Biblio-Mat book dispenser, Toronto, Ontaria, Canada. © Mo-Paw.blogspot.com ... Don't plagiarize. Credit the artist.
Bible Dam (2006) © Jacek Yerka (Artist, Poland). Religious dogma holding back a flood of knowledge? -pb. ... Don't plagiarize. Credit the artist.
Why Reading Books Should be Your Priority, According to Science…
Books: Bringing Knowledge and Entertainment to Bored People for over 600 Years! © Ellen Beeler (Artist, USA) @ etsy.com ... Don't plagiarize. Credit the artist.
Antique leather-bound books from France, 1800s - early 1900s. Sold by PoshChicago.com
What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee? ... Was ever anything so civil? - Anthony Trollope (Author, UK). Evening at Home by Sir Edward Poynter (Artist, UK).…
Back in the day: Who knew publishers included artwork of their businesses in books at one time? Not me. Love the artwork in old public domain books! TY Archive.org & Gutenberg.org!
"A good book is the life blood of a master spirit." - Milton
In tribute to hack authors and their publishers everywhere. Strange Brew cartoon © John Deering. Available for purchase at:…
1928 Garrett Estate House Library. Evergreen Museum & Library. Baltimore, Maryland, USA
From: The Child's World, Third Reader, 1917, by Hetty Browne, Sarah Withers & W.K. Tate, Authors. Public Domain Free E-Book at:…
Written Worlds © Rob Gonsalves, Artist, Canada. Have three of his books and LOVE them! Prints available at online art gallery:…
Art, 2010, by Thevol ... He came home only to find, once again, she was curled up lost in a good book - pfb / Patricia Bee / PitcherBooks @ LibraryThing ... Don't plagiarize. Credit the artist and…
'The Foolish Book Collector' gothic woodcut from DAS NARRENSCHIFF (1494) / The Ship of Fools by Sebastian BRANT (Author. Germany, 1457-1521) via Project Gutenberg. "I have but one pleasure. To have a…
Quotation from Confessions of a Beachcomber, 1908, by Edmund J. Banfield (Author, Beachcomber. England 1852-1923 Australia). Free E-Book:…
The Archivist © Jean-Baptiste Monge, author and illustrator.…
Quiescit Anima Libris. The soul finds respite in books. - Latin proverb. Originated by - pfb / Patricia Bee / PitcherBooks @ LibraryThing. Don't plagiarize. Credit the source.
In omnibus requiem quaesivi, et nusquam inveni nisi in angulo cum libro. [I sought peace everywhere but never found it - except in a corner with a book.] ~ Thomas à Kempis (Writer. German, circa…
The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down…
Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books - even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you, to bid you welcome - William E. Gladstone. Art by…
Fairy tales are more than true: Not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragon's can be beaten. - Neil Gaiman, derived from G.K. Chesterton. Art by Arthur Rackham,…
She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. She read books as one would breathe ether, to sink in and die. - Annie Dillard, Author. Leseschiff / The Reading Ship by…
We read to know we are not alone. - C.S. Lewis (Author, UK). Design by Priscilla, TheReadables.tumblr.com. Don't plagiarize. Credit the author and the graphic designer.
Books don't just go with you. They take you where you've never been. Originated by pfb / Patricia Bee / PitcherBooks @ LibraryThing.
A book commits suicide everytime you watch a reality show. Just say no!
1663 Vanitas - Still Life with Books, Manuscripts and a Skull by Edwaert Collier, Dutch Artist. Holding Museum: National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Japan. Don't plagiarize. Credit the artist and…
Cardiff Castle, Wales. Library photo by David Thrower, Redshift Photography. Don't plagiarize. Credit the photographer ... My dream library. The most beautiful library I've seen to date! - pfb /…
So many books, so little time by Edward Gorey (Author/Artist, USA). Support & maintain the Edward Gorey House & Museum. Relies 100% on public support! Buy from GoreyStore.com. Don't…
Do you really need a new book? The Best Decision Tree Ever by Belcastro Agency. Don't plagiarize. Credit the artist.
Book House by Valentin Rekuneko (Artist, Ukraine). Don't plagiarize. Credit the artist ... My dream house when I am an old woman (which will always be tomorrow regardless of my years :-) - pfb /…
"Little Scared" by JollyRotten.deviantArt.com. Don't plagiarize. Credit the artist ... Anxious Ex Libris - Never enough time to read perhaps? - pfb / Patricia Bee / PitcherBooks @ LibraryThing.
Book-Chair design by MarieWesterberg, Sweden. Don't plagiarize. Credit the artist ... The Ultimate Book-Lover's Chair! - pfb / Patricia Bee / PitcherBooks @ LibraryThing.
Snow Day by Susan Branch, USA. Don't plagiarize. Credit the artist ... I'd have titled this The PERFECT Snow Day! - pfb / Patricia Bee / PitcherBooks @ LibraryThing.
Bookworm StockArt by Nicolas Batista. Don't plagiarize. Credit the artist ... The book never falls far from the bookworm? - pfb / Patricia Bee / PitcherBooks @ LibraryThing.
Bee photo (detail) by PitcherBooks/Pat/pfb.