Whether you’re into epic fantasy series or practical business books, the musty smell of vintage hardcovers or the sleek feel of a brand-new Kindle, Evernote can help you keep track of your reading. Fortunately, there’s an app that can help with that. And if you become too lonely while lost within their pages, you join a book club to talk about them.īut as the books pile up, so do the challenges of remembering what you’ve read… and figuring out what to read next. You use them to learn about reality, to reimagine it, and to escape from it. And once they’ve caught you in their silent embrace, they may just take over your life.īefore you know it, you’re carrying them out of libraries and bookstores two, three, or five at a time, to fill your shelves and devices with words. Their pages hold earth-shaking ideas, unexplored worlds, entire universes of thought. They’re bigger on the inside than they are on the outside. “They are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.” And why not? “Books are the quietest and most constant of friends,” wrote educator Charles William Eliot.
Ever since the first scholars and scribes put stylus to scroll and codex, humanity has had a love affair with books.
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