The technology is changing books and the way we read and learn. It’s also affecting the role of institutions playing a crucial role in education and learning.
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Should we be afraid of technology? No. But we should use it very carefully, and not let it overwhelm us. As Christian Lous Lange once remarked: “technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.”
The worst thing to happen would be to keep books in a form invented by Gutenberg 600 years ago, while everything else is changing at the speed of the Internet connection.
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.”
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Books, libraries and technology in 25 image quotes
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Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators
–Stephen Fry
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No two persons ever read the same book.
–Edmund Wilson
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If we encounter a man of rare intelect we should ask him what books he reads.
–Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
–Haruki Murakami
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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
–G.K. Chesterton
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In a good book the best is between the lines.
–Swedish Proverb
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I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
–C.S. Lewis
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I divide all readers into two classes; those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
–William Lyon Phelps
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A good book has no ending.
–R.D. Cumming
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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
–Stephen Fry
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The most important asset of any library goes home at night – the library staff.
–Timothy Healy
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I have found the most valuable thing in my wallet is my library card.
–Laura Bush
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Cutting libraries during a recession is like cutting hospitals during a plague.
–Eleanor Crumblehulme
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Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.
–Henri Frederic Amiel
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My two favourite things in life are libraries and bicycles. They both move people forward without wasting anything.
–Peter Golkin
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What is more important in a library than anything else – than everything else – is the fact that it exists.
–Archibald MacLeish
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Libraries are the future of reading.
–Courtney Milan
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The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.
–Northrop Frye
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We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.
–Douglas Adams
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Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
–Pablo Picasso
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Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.
–Laurie Anderson
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The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.
–John Lasseter
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Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.
–Christian Lous Lange
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This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy.
–Cory Doctorow
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