Tag Archives: PEW Research

  1. Annotations, Ink Drinkers, and Pleasure Reading

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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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  2. The Persistent Importance of Print, Reading, and School Libraries

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    March 10, 2015 by libroshombre

    Dozens of studies agree: people prefer reading print books over electronic devices. In the 1990’s some folks insisted, rather stridently, …
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    Category: books, deep reading, libraries, print, reading | Tags: , , , ,

  3. Mansplaining, 1616, and Buying Books

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    September 18, 2014 by libroshombre

    Cicero the Roman once wrote, “Old nature is by nature rather talkative,” and, being something of a chatterbox all my …
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  4. Duck Bill Hickok, the Influential Rich, and Public Libraries

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    July 31, 2014 by libroshombre

    The first wild west shootout occurred 99 years ago last week when the gambler Bill Hickok and cowboy David Tutt …
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    Category: gunfighters, libraries, public libraries | Tags: , , , , ,

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