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Sep. 6, 2009 - Libraries with No Books

A few days ago, I read an online article on The Boston Globe by David Abel. The article was explaining how the New England prep school the Cushing Academy is riding their entire library of our 20,000 books and replacing it with digital screens, places for laptops, etc.


The first question that entered my mind was how the library cannot invite the Library without booksdigital books and books online along with the books? I’m all for the convenience of modern technology, but there are many things that technology cannot completely take the place of without consequences and one of those is books. What has been working well for centuries shouldn’t just end because one generation found an invention they liked better. It was mentioned in the article that the staff of Cushing believe it is the start of a new era. The problems I foresee, aside from losing the pure love of books, are what if there was a power surge? What about the effects on the eyes as people do more reading on a computer screen? Like the television the computer screen can affect the brain waves as well. The author also pointed out various other problems with digital "books" such as sand, liquids and the cost of accessing the materials as many of the materials online are not free.

I'm also not in agreement with the library bringing in a coffee shop containing and encouraging the use of legally addictive stimulants for youth. Not just any coffee shop mind you, but a $50,000 coffee shop that will include a $12,000 cappuccino machine. We travel an hour away to go to libraries in a large city nearest us. We have access to almost twenty libraries that inter-loan.

I cannot imagine not being able to browse through the shelves, picking out books that catch my eye. Sometimes the spiral bound cookbooks are my favorites to browse, or books that are warn on the covers and pages dog-earring showing me that this was a well-read and well-loved book. I write ebooks and articles, most of which are featured online. That still doesn’t replace the value of a book in my mind. Call me old fashioned but I love a book, a real book.

-Shiloah B.

Photo of old books by:  Ivan Vicencio (Pepo)
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Books Read for 2009
31 Hours by Masha Hamilton
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
Raising Real Men by Hal and Melanie Young
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Detectives Don't Wear Seatbelts by Cici McNair
The Runner's Diet by Madelyn H. Fernstrom
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
The Biggest Loser Fitness Plan
The U.S. Constitution for Everyone by Mort Gerberg
Common Sense by Thomas Paine
The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas
Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
You Can Heal Your Life Companion Book by Louise L. Hay
The Well Trained Mind
Doctrine and Covenants
The Secret by Rhonda Byrne
You Can Heal Your Life By Louise Hay
1776 by David McCullough
Follow the River by Thom
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Through the Window of Life by Suzanne Freeman
The Chosen by Chaim Potok
Judge Me, Dear Reader by Erwin Wirkus
Cheaper by the Dozen by Gilbreth
FedEd by Allen Quist
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis


Books Read for 2008
The Chimes by Charles Dickens
Prevention's Shortcuts to Big Weight Loss By Chris Freytag
Shrink Your Female Fat Zones By Denise Austin
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
The Love Languages of Children by Gary Chapman
Anna Karenina By Leo Tolstoy
The Virginian by Owen Wister
Feelings Buried Alive Never Die by Karol K. Truman
The Bonds That Make You Free
Adrenal Fatigue: The 21st Century Stress Syndrome by James L Wilson
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Hiding in Plain Site By Ken Bowers
Going Home (Brides of Webster County #1) by Wanda E. Brunstetter
Thomas Jefferson Education Home Companion
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
It Takes a Mother to Raise a Village By Colleen Down
Ten Peas in a Pod by Arnold Pent III
One Tattered Angel by Blaine M. Yorgason


Finished 2007:
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Emma by Jane Austen
Homeschooling Methods by Paul and Gina Suarez
I'm Going to be the Greatest Mom Ever by Terri Camp
If it Weren't for Eve, I'd be a Perfect Wife by Terri Camp
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
She's Gonna Blow by Julie Ann Barnhill
I Didn't Plan to be a Witch by Linda Eyre
Things I Wish I'd Known Sooner: Personal Discoveries of a Mother of Twelve by Jaroldeen Edwards
The other Eminent Men of Wilford Woodruff By Vicki Jo Anderson
Arm the Children by Arthur Henry King


Books Read as a Family 2007:
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
King Arthur Tales of the Round Table by Andrew Lang
Ten and Twenty


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