Hello fellow Book Lovers:
MobileRead now has a library of over 11,000 books. This is a rich repository of Human Thought, and should be celebrated truly as a
MobileRead Group Accomplishment, one that continues to grow and thrive, and one that is expressive of the rich diversity of cultures across the globe.
I see this as a thread where we can come together to discuss the books available here - on this site, and in this Library. To give one an idea of possible things to discuss, see the list below. It is by no means complete:
* We can talk about formats - what works, what doesn't - but all in a constructive and helpful way.
* We can discuss the works available here, in addition to "glaring omissions" (
) due to "negligence" and/or copyright restrictions. The starting point, of course, would be the work(s) available here.
* We can discuss individual works - both critiquing and expressing our personal opinions of certain books here. I see this as perhaps the main point for generating discussion.
* We can discuss the overall impression of author sets.
* We can discuss the "History of Revisions" (as I choose to call it). Harry comes most readily to mind, as he tirelessly continues to improve his ebook assemblies - namely Charles Dickens, but by no means limited to Dickens - and making them as uniform and "perfect" as is humanly possible.
The books in our Library speak about pain, suffering, joy, remembrance, and all that is represented as good in Humankind. With that thought in mind, I see
MobileRead's Library as a repository of the
Accomplishments of the Human Race and of Dreams Yet To Come. Perhaps for me, personally, this is the reason for my love (my passion) for reading.
Recently, with the addition of new Moderators with expertise in specific foreign languages, MobileRead's Library has expanded to now include (among other languages) German language titles. This is one area here that has seen phenomenal growth.
Truly, I see MobileRead's Members as a global network of
International Lovers of Reading. In this respect, boundaries are only imaginary lines dividing one Humanity. (When seen in this light, how petty seem our individual "quarrels" and disagreements when discussing books, ideas, authors, hardware.)
I leave you with some famous quotes about Books, by people who love Books:
"Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn." -
Joseph Addison
"In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you." -
Mortimer Adler
"A book is a friend; a good book is a good friend. It will talk to you when you want it to talk, and it will keep still when you want it to keep still; and there are not many friends who know enough to do that." -
B. A. Billingsly
"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them." -
Ray Bradbury
"I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see." -
John Burroughs
"What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books." -
Thomas Carlyle
"A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight." -
Robertson Davies
HAVE FUN!
Don