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October 5, 2018
Still More Conversation about Reading Print Books or Ebooks . . .
This discussion began on October 1st and continued on Oct. 3rd… [image error]
Since it only takes one reader comment to move one of our Blog Conversations forward, the two comments we got have positively propelled us ahead :-)
I’ll insert some history links here before sharing our reader comments:
History of Books
( including clay tablets through e-books )History of E-books
( surprisingly beginning in the 1940s )
So…
Here’s the first reader comment about Print/E-books:
“I use both, though I prefer...
October 4, 2018
My Mother’s Fairy Tales
Today’s re-blog ends where it begins; but, increases in understanding along the way :-)
My mother gave me her childhood book of fairy tales when my children were young. This wasn’t a book she had ever shown me, or my brother and sisters. I think it was my teaching and my newfound love of children’s literature that prompted her to give me the book.
I was thrilled and excited. I read many of the fairy tales, especially the ones I knew. I remember calling Mother and...
October 3, 2018
More Conversation about Reading Print Books or Ebooks . . .
[image error] Our current discussion began on October 1st and had one reader comment—that’s all it takes to move the conversation forward :-)
Last time, I talked about the precursor to the E-reader, the site that had the first E-books; and, that the first dedicated E-readers were the Rocket Ebook and Softbook…
And, for those who didn’t take the link up there, here’s how I began the conversation–proper in the first post—what I said about my experience of print and E-books:
“I Love print books—softbound bet...
October 2, 2018
The Bookmark of a Reader by Kirsten LeClerc
As we approach the end of another year—a re-blog from the beginning of the year…
…btw, do you dog-ear books from the library…?
In my four and a half years as a teacher-librarian, I have discovered a number of items crammed into returned books. Regular bookmarks, of course. The adorable and witty kind that can be purchased at a Scholastic book fair. But those aren’t what interest me the most. I love finding all the things accidentally left behind. The thinking tracks, the doodl...
October 1, 2018
Blog Conversation about Reading Print Books or Ebooks?
[image error] Our last conversation here—about Challenging Books—had 8 installments; beginning on September 12th and continuing on September 14th, 17th, 19th, 21st, 24th, 26th, and the 28th; and, since each installment is powered by one or more reader comments on the previous installment; and, since that post on September 28th got no comments, I get to start a discussion about Print vs E-reading…
Print reading started a loooong time ago—E-reading began… Well… It depends on how you define it…
…from The God...
September 29, 2018
It’s An Illusion
I might be breaking a re-blogging “rule”; but, here’s the final paragraph of this post:
“The illusion in our heads is of a fully realized world, provided with every necessary action and relationship to contextualize our story. The reader only gets what’s on the page. Give them enough cards and top hats to be in on the illusion, too.”
Now, go ahead—find out how the author got there… :-)
Entertainment at the annual Brevity office party
A few years ago I studied at Wr...
September 28, 2018
Messy by Jennifer L. Holm
Yep…
This re-blog is about a children’s book…
But…
It’s definitely for adults, too :-)
My parents were always nagging me to clean up my room when I was a kid.
I was a little messy.
Which is probably why I’ve always loved the story of how Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin. (Also, my dad was a doctor so we had a lot of penicillin around the house.)
Alexander Fleming was a physician and microbiologist who toiled for many years trying to find a treatment for bacterial infect...
Still Further Conversation about Reading Challenging Books . . .
[image error] Our current conversation has had 7 installments; beginning on September 12th and continuing on September 14th, 17th, 19th, 21st, 24th, and 26th—each installment powered by one or more reader comments on the previous installment…
This has been the longest conversation since this concept of encouraging reader engagement first moved me to change the way I was blogging… ( Please Note: back in the “old days” and now, I’ve used re-blogs, to varying degrees, to give me time for my fiction writing…...
September 27, 2018
Just a Bit More Conversation about What Age Brings to Writing . . .
This is a new category of Blog Conversation posts… [image error]
Not on a Monday, Wednesday, or Friday…
Something I wondered how I’d handle and now am doing…
A reader has left a comment on a Conversation that we’d left behind—What Age Brings to Writing, with two posts on August 6th and 8th…
For any new readers, if a conversation receives no comments, I move on to a new conversation…
So here we are, on a Thursday, stepping back to record a valuable comment on the August 8th post about What Age Brings to Wr...
