23 Elephants

Thing 20 –Books!

What’s good to read?  That is the question which these tools address. The Readers Advisory Book Trails was my favorite…although I didn’t have time to try all the choices right now.  The online book community Overbooked for “ravenous readers” could be really useful.  The Book group resources I liked best was the book videos of authors.  As we look at 23 Things this thing bridged the traditional services with current technology.  I was a voracious reader as a child.  I was punished for reading too much –so it became a guilty pleasure.  Reading keeps me awke at night, it doesn’t put me to sleep!  Yet, format is not why I read, it is the characters, the situations, the emotions, the ideas, the experiences.  Reading on-line, on a Kindle, on a phone or with book doesn’t make the difference.  Just as my nephew loved to sit on my lap when he was a toddler and listen to the stories I read –he also loved sitting on my lap to see & hear stories on the computer.  So using the technology to help readers find more books they like, and have conversations with others seems like a top priority for libraries.

As I said with other things –this could be great “thing” to teach some of our patrons.