quote [ But don?t worry / Everybody?s still hung up in it ]

quote [ The end of the world is never really the end of the world?at least not in fiction. After all, someone must survive to tell the tale. And what tales they are. Humans have been pondering the end of existence for as long as we?ve been aware of it. ]

quote [ "the standard to which all future pencil-sharpening textbooks must now aspire." (New Yorker) ]

quote [ Alongside the lack of incentive, Critchlow also believes that Goodreads ultimately still serves the purpose most people use it for. ?I think a ?better Goodreads? is alluring because reading books and sharing books is an incredibly emotional experience,? he says. ?But? keeping a list of books you?ve read and want to read is actually served pretty well? Most of the imagined features and social ideas are not actually that useful.? ]

quote [ Wren Library in St Paul?s cathedral to describe what the library smelled like to them. Everyone described its smell as ?woody?, while 86% also experienced it as ?smoky?, 71% as ?earthy? and just under half (41%) reported the scent of ?vanilla? ? all smells associated with particular chemicals in old books. ]

quote [ The Digital Comic Museum offers free access to hundreds of pre-1959 comic books, uploaded by users who often offer historical research and commentary alongside high-quality scans. ]

quote [ It is trivially simple to start collecting e-books, marshalling them into libraries on hard drives, and then to share the results. And it is much less trivially important. Sharing is caring. Societies where people share, especially ideas, are societies that will naturally flourish. ]

quote [ Home libraries are already magical places with numerous new worlds in which to escape. Add a hidden door and you?ve got something extra special. We?ve scoured the web and found fantastic home libraries with hidden doors to realms unknown! ]

quote [ The official Worldcon 75 website, where you can find all and any information about the event. Helsinki was selected to host the 75th Worldcon in 2017. Voting was held in the 2015 Worldcon, Sasquan in Spokane. ]

quote [ If a trip to Venice is your ideal holiday, then you?re going to love the future. Most of us, however, will be quite sobered by Kim Stanley Robinson?s upcoming novel, New York 2140, a near-future projection of a world reshaped by climate change. Sea level has risen by 50 feet, flooding the Big Apple and and countless coastal cities around the planet. Thousands of species have gone extinct. ]