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July 9, 2022 by libroshombre
Knowing I’d just returned from a Seattle trip, a friend needlessly asked if I’d visited any bookstores. Well, I …
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Category: books, booksellers, bookstores, cartoonists, magazines, rare books, reading, reading well
| Tags: annotations, Arundel's Books, bookworm, Edward Gibbon, Jack London, PEW Research, True Magazine, VIP, Virgil Partch
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November 19, 2019 by libroshombre
Ancient epic literature appeals most when it reveals how people long ago lived their daily lives and how they thought. …
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Category: bookstores, libraries, oral tradition, public libraries, publishing, Uncategorized
| Tags: Barnes & Noble, co-op fees, Gilgamesh, Homer, James Daunt, rhapsodes, The Odyssey, Waterstone's
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May 13, 2019 by libroshombre
Here’s a story about a pricelessly unique 16th century book that’s just been rediscovered that describes 15,000 other books. Last …
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Category: book buying, books, bookstores, cartographers, librarians, libraries, libraries and librarians, library collections, library history, Uncategorized
| Tags: Arni Magnusson, Hernanado COlon, Heywood Hill Books, The Epitomes
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October 17, 2018 by libroshombre
Upon my arrival in Fairbanks in 1990, former State Senator Charlie Parr recommended I read “Generations: The History of America’s …
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Category: bibliophiles, book buying, books, bookstores, Uncategorized, writers
| Tags: booklovers, Charlie Parr, Emily Bronte, Generations, Millennials
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August 9, 2018 by libroshombre
Martin Luther King, Jr. was spot-on when he said, “Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance …
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Category: bookstores, higher education, library services, public libraries, Uncategorized
| Tags: adjunct professors, Amazon Bookstores, ignoramus, Martin Luther King Jr.
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July 4, 2017 by libroshombre
There’s a set of values held in common by public librarians everywhere: a love of books and belief in …
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Category: books, bookstores, librarians, libraries, Uncategorized
| Tags: Barbara Tuchman, hamzeh almaaytah, Junction, Pack Horse Library Project, skunks