“A modern librarian, who has faith in the law that 'BOOKS ARE FOR USE,' is happy only when his readers make his shelves constantly empty. It is not the books that go out that worry him. It is the stay-at-home volumes that perplex and depress him.” BookUseHomeLawWorryModernReaderEmptyHave FaithVolumeDepressingShelvesLibrarianStay At Home Author:S. R. Ranganathan
“Throughout the 1960s and 1970s devoted Beckett readers greeted each successively shorter volume from the master with a mixture of awe and apprehensiveness; it was like watching a great mathematician wielding an infinitesimal calculus, his equations approaching nearer and still nearer to the null point.” StillsMastersReaderMathematicsMathMathematicalAweDevotedVolumeMathematicianEquationsMixtures1960sCalculusBeckettNull Author:John Banville
“Affect, Imagery, Consciousness, a four-volume work so dense that its readers were evenly divided between those who understood it and thought it was brilliant and those who did not understand it and thought it was brilliant.” ConsciousnessFourReaderUnderstoodBrilliantDividedVolumeImageryDense Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“F.R. Leavis's "eat up your broccoli" approach to fiction emphasises this junkfood/wholefood dichotomy. If reading a novel--for theeighteenth century reader, the most frivolous of diversions--did not, by the middle of the twentieth century, make you a better person in some way, then you might as well flush the offending volume down the toilet, which was by far the best place for the undigested excreta of dubious nourishment.” IfsWayWellsPersonsMightReadingFictionNovelMiddleCenturyReaderApproachVolumeToiletsTwentieth CenturyNourishmentBetter PersonFrivolousDiversionBest PlaceDubiousDichotomyOffendingBroccoli Book:Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings Source: Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings
“Ordinary Bibles often include cross-references and brief concordances; Study Bibles include much more, all bound up in one fat volume, so that readers can find a lot of useful explanation on each page without having to hunt through Bible dictionaries and commentaries and the like.” StudyReaderPagesOrdinaryCrossesBoundsFatsExplanationVolumeHuntsDictionaryCommentary Author:D. A. Carson
“If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!” IfsWritingBookStoriesReadingInterestingSecretWrittenReaderTalesDullVolumeInsipid Book:The History of Pendennis (Volume 2 of 2 ) (EasyRead Edition) Source: The History of Pendennis (Volume 2 of 2 ) (EasyRead Edition)