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We're all busy people. So we took some of the most popular books of all time and estimated how long it would take the average reader to finish them. 
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"Our Reading Lives features stories about how books and reading have shaped who we are and how we live. It is open not only to regular Book Riot contributors, but to guest posters from the publishing industry, authors, and….you. If you are interested in telling us about a book that has been influential in your life, please contact us: community (at) bookriot (dot) com.
I am a “bookworm.” I’ve always really enjoyed books and reading. But when I was in school there were always two kinds of books: the ones that were assigned reading, and the ones I was allowed to choose for myself.
Assigned books come with a burden..."
Terheck's insight:
Very nice article on the magic of reading, when a book, yes a single book, can change you life forever.
And the comments are very nice too, so many touching testimonials.
By the way, which book affect you most ?
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Some say that the children's rooms of libraries are an anachronism in a world of mobile screens with books on demand. But I say that while childhood has changed quite a bit, children have not....
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"It's no secret that reading is an excellent pastime. But sometimes, at the end of a long day, it's easier to switch on Netflix than reach for the novel you were so excited about, but have yet to start. Don't be dissuaded! There are major advantages to being a book lover. Here are 16, to start: 1. You're never bored..."
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"The proportion of Americans who read e-books is growing, but few have completely replaced print books for electronic versions. The percentage of adults who read an e-book in the past year has risen to 28%, up from 23% at the end of 2012. At the same time, about seven in ten Americans reported reading a book in print, up four percentage points after a slight dip in 2012..."
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"Any book lover can tell you: diving into a great novel is an immersive experience that can make your brain come alive with imagery and emotions and even turn on your senses. It sounds romantic, but there’s real, hard evidence that supports these things happening to your brain when you read books. In reading, we can actually physically change our brain structure, become more empathetic, and even trick our brains into thinking we’ve experienced what we’ve only read in novels."
Terheck's insight:
Just read.
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Books, those bound paper documents, are part of an ecosystem, one that was perfect, and one that is dying, quickly. Ideas aren’t going away soon, and neither are words. But, as the ecosystem dies, not only will the prevailing corporate... Via Nik Peachey
aisha ertugrul's comment,
August 17, 2013 8:11 AM
As well as completely and utterly disregarding the fact that essential reading skills are very well learned through reading for pleasure and extensively reading for pleasure!
OneSpring's curator insight,
August 19, 2013 9:56 AM
A very interesting thought from a very interesting man...
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"Que l'on vive ici ou là, on ne passe pas le même temps à lire. Par exemple, plus de 10 heures hebdomadaires avec un ouvrage, ne feraient pas de vous un véritable maharadja de la lecture en Inde. Car le pays est le premier au monde en terme de temps passé par habitant : 10 heures et 42 minutes à faire défiler des lignes. L'enquête, réalisée par NOP World , a passé au crible les habitudes des différentes nations de notre petite planète. Et les résultats sont fameux."
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A decision to save $6.00 by buying a book online, multiplied by thousands of customers every day, means that your local bookstore -- the place where you meet friends, met your partner, or found the book that changed your life -- may not be there...
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What books are made for...
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Reading is the new Sexy ! Inscrivez-vous à My Little Book Club, le club des lecteurs de My Little.
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"Paperback readers, rejoice! It turns out reading books on e-readers doesn’t give your brain the same experience as those paper books gathering dust on your bookshelf. A new study by European researchers found that recollection of plot points and story lines were “significantly” worse for readers who read on a Kindle versus a paperback book..."
Terheck's insight:
Un nouvelle étude tend à démontrer que la lecture sur écran serait moins "efficace" que la lecture sur papier.
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In the scramble to gain market share in cyberspace, something is getting lost: the public interest. Libraries and laboratories—crucial nodes of the World Wide Web—are buckling under economic pressure, and the information they diffuse is being diverted away from the public sphere, where it can do most good.
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As a fresh controversy arises in Delaware over whether parents should censor school reading lists, Dav Pilkey's Captain Underpants series tops the list of books which received the most complaints
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"Des amoureux du livre, il en existe ici, ailleurs, là-bas aussi... et probablement trouve-t-on autant d'espèces de lecteurs que de livres. Il était donc temps, grand temps, d'établir une classification des lecteurs de livres. Et le mieux, c'est encore de passer par une infographie explicative."
Alors, quel genre de lecteur de livres êtes-vous ?
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Début janvier 2014, la British Library a publié sur son site web la version originelle manuscrite du fameux roman de Lewis Caroll. Une occasion unique de découvrir des illustrations inédites d'Alic...
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It's no secret that reading is good for your brain. But what actually happens inside your brain when you read a great novel?
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Article en français sur le même sujet : http://www.actualitte.com/societe/des-scientifiques-montrent-qu-un-livre-change-la-vie-biologiquement-47233.htm
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Feel free to share the images and spread the word. The digital age doesn’t mark the end of a book, because “a good book has no ending.” Via Olivier Roumieux
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"UK-based Pearson has been in the news recently and it’s not just for its joint venture with Bertelsmann that will combine Penguin and Random House or the major restructuring that has taken place at the education behemoth; it’s also over the cloud war that has intensified between Google and Microsoft over Pearson’s decision to offer cloud-based document services to its enterprise users."
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Peter is using Pinterest, an online pinboard to collect and share what inspires you. Via repeatagain
repeatagain's curator insight,
January 8, 2013 6:23 PM
holala voila un obsédé des bibliothèques :)
voir notamment le fameux Michelin des bibliothèques :
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Il était attendu, le voici : Bookish vient de se lancer. Réunissant trois acteurs majeurs du livre, outre-Atlantique, Hachette Book Group, Penguin et Simon & Schuster, le site compile des articles, des recommandations de livres, et tout un pan éditorial organisé par les éditeurs même.
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