Some people read off of their Palms and Pocket PCs, but the real immersible reading experience takes a full-screen device.
You know, I’m a big believer in touch and digital reading, but I still think that some mixture of voice, the pen and a real keyboard – in other words a netbook – will be the mainstream on that.
Whether I’m at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I’m looking forward to reading.
My job is about the most fun thing I do, but I have a broad set of interests, going places, reading things, doing things.
Test scores aren’t perfect, but having a test score for math or reading or other things that we can objectively measure is a meaningful component that makes a lot of sense.
We are the Bibles the world is reading; We are the creeds the world is needing; We are the sermons the world is heeding.
I am never lonely when I am reading the Bible. Nothing dissolves loneliness like a session with God’s Word.
It is not in Montaigne, but in myself, that I find all that I see in him.
Those who write against vanity want the glory of having written well, and their readers the glory of reading well, and I who write this have the same desire, as perhaps those who read this have also.
When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.
In my contact with people, I find that, as a rule, it is only the little, narrow people who live for themselves, who never read good books, who do not travel, who never open up their souls in a way to permit them to come into contact with other souls – with the great outside world.
It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.
It is my opinion that a story worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.
Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us.
In Science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself.
But in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in the Greek poem, I see with a myriad eyes, but it is still I who see. Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do.
The only palliative is to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done only by reading old books.
Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which ‘permits, invites, or compels’ good reading.
Looking for God-or Heaven-by exploring space is like reading or seeing all Shakespeare’s plays in the hope that you will find Shakespeare as one of the characters...
If one has to choose between reading the new books and reading the old, one must choose the old: not because they are necessarily better but because they contain precisely those truths of which our own age is neglectful.