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	<title>Comments on: A Bookless Library Makes as Much Sense as a Foodless Kitchen</title>
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		<title>By: Wave of the future</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Wave of the future]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jan 2014 23:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You lose info on the internet and if you don&#039;t have electricity, you can&#039;t read your books. Libraries without books is just plain stupid. And I also remember the thrill of the Bookmobile ... nothing can replace it - the smell of new and old books, of air conditioning in the Bookmobile... Nope, computers will never do it for me. They also make one go blind. The future is books, not computers.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You lose info on the internet and if you don&#8217;t have electricity, you can&#8217;t read your books. Libraries without books is just plain stupid. And I also remember the thrill of the Bookmobile &#8230; nothing can replace it &#8211; the smell of new and old books, of air conditioning in the Bookmobile&#8230; Nope, computers will never do it for me. They also make one go blind. The future is books, not computers.</p>
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		<title>By: worldwatchman</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[worldwatchman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jan 2014 01:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An EMP and it&#039;s done.  A terminal blacking out part of a city and it&#039;s done.  A broken computer and it&#039;s done. A person thinking this is the future is mentally done.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>An EMP and it&#8217;s done.  A terminal blacking out part of a city and it&#8217;s done.  A broken computer and it&#8217;s done. A person thinking this is the future is mentally done.</p>
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		<title>By: Daniel Greenfield</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jan 2014 01:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many used book stores have also vanished on this side of the coast. I&#039;m not sure it&#039;s even a viable business in the Amazon era]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Many used book stores have also vanished on this side of the coast. I&#8217;m not sure it&#8217;s even a viable business in the Amazon era</p>
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		<title>By: Daniel Greenfield</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jan 2014 01:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes the refresh rate can be wearing. e-ink readers are better, but still not as good as a book]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yes the refresh rate can be wearing. e-ink readers are better, but still not as good as a book</p>
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		<title>By: SCREW SOCIALISM</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[SCREW SOCIALISM]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jan 2014 00:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nothing, yet, can beat the feel of an open book.. Smooth, cool, sharp.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nothing, yet, can beat the feel of an open book.. Smooth, cool, sharp.</p>
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		<title>By: SCREW SOCIALISM</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[SCREW SOCIALISM]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jan 2014 00:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Teacherless schools.

Each student learns at their own pace - and Live Teaches would  be available on  a Chat - like getting help from Amazon for your purchase.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Teacherless schools.</p>
<p>Each student learns at their own pace &#8211; and Live Teaches would  be available on  a Chat &#8211; like getting help from Amazon for your purchase.</p>
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		<title>By: laura r</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[laura r]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jan 2014 23:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[reading from a laptop is hard on the eyes. the movement of the screen destroys the nervous system, interferes w/sleep. reading a normal book or magazine is relaxing. the internet is great as you can access almost anything. i dont want a kindle, i draw the line there.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>reading from a laptop is hard on the eyes. the movement of the screen destroys the nervous system, interferes w/sleep. reading a normal book or magazine is relaxing. the internet is great as you can access almost anything. i dont want a kindle, i draw the line there.</p>
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		<title>By: Craig S. Maxwell</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Craig S. Maxwell]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jan 2014 22:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a used book dealer, this story&#039;s near and dear to my heart. After San Diego&#039;s oldest used book bookstore folded a few years back, I wrote the following:


Last year, Wahrenbrock&#039;s Book House, San Diego&#039;s oldest and best used bookstore, closed
its doors forever. Yet its end is indicative of not only a troubled retail
industry, but of the growing indifference toward reading and literature in
general. I reflected on the meaning of this in what follows below...

 

 

            A REQUIEM FOR READING?

 

            The memorial service for
my grandfather, Vernon Wahrenbrock, was sparsely attended; the inevitable consequence,
I suppose, of his having lived nearly a century. All his friends and much of
his family were gone. We, his survivors, were there of course. And so were a
few of the folks he&#039;d gotten to know at the rest home. But the only other
person to pay his respects that day was Chuck Valverde. It was February 18th, 2008, and
already he was pale and thin. Still, I had no way of knowing that within six
months I and hundreds of others would be attending a memorial service for Chuck
himself.

            The link between these
very dissimilar but remarkable men was, of course, Wahrenbrock&#039;s Bookhouse –
the shop my grandfather founded in 1935 and that Chuck had operated (and later
owned) since 1967. Wahrenbrock&#039;s had always been the flagship of San Diego&#039;s
used bookstore fleet, and one of the best used bookstores on the West Coast.
Recently, many San Diegans were shocked and saddened to hear that the store
itself was gone – its doors closed forever.

            The store&#039;s sudden
demise, falling as it did hard on the heels of its owners&#039; deaths, has provoked
thought and memory. But this is due to more than mere chronological proximity.
Here, smack on the front page of the San Diego Union-Tribune, was a story about
a small business – Wahrenbrock&#039;s – gone south. Why? Other failed ventures don&#039;t
get that kind of attention. Sure, at 74 the shop was old – at least by San
Diego standards. But no one had paid any attention to my father&#039;s business when
it closed back in the nineties, and it had been around since 1896. No, there
was something about Wahrenbrock&#039;s, and perhaps about used bookshops in general
(which have been steadily disappearing for twenty years or more) that led to
all the attention and provoked our collective lament. I think I know the
answer, but my explanation will require a brief detour through the past.

            I, too, was destined to
become a used bookman. On one occasion during my informal yet invaluable
apprenticeship with Brian Lucas at Adams Avenue Bookstore a co-worker, while
casually thumbing through a volume said, “You know, this is a pretty durable
piece of technology.” He was right. The technology to which he referred was the
codex book – the book as we commonly know it. I was amazed at the profundity of
that simple observation.

            In ancient Greece and
Rome, books had been printed on long rolls (think of cellophane or aluminum
wrap) called scrolls. This made the reproduction of them (not to mention dog
earing pages!) very difficult. But even after the eighth century when most them
had been copied into codex form – individual pages sewn or glued at one edge to
a spine with hinged boards – the difficulty of reproduction remained.
Fortunately, both the inconvenience and the scarcity of this commodity were
made more bearable by the paucity of need; few people could read. Literacy was
largely the province of clerics and scholars. It wasn&#039;t until around 1450 when
Gutenberg invented moveable type that this technical difficulty was overcome,
and in what must be one of the most momentous historical coincidences of all
time, Gutenberg&#039;s innovation coincided with the work of another man whose
teachings and  followers would create for
it an inexhaustible market: Martin Luther. Luther&#039;s theology made the Book –
the Bible, that is – more important for believers than was the Church itself.
And this, of course, meant that people must become acquainted with it, must
read it. In short, for Luther and his followers, reading was close to being a
prerequisite for knowing God.

            Talk about an incentive!
But whether he was right or wrong, one can easily imagine the effect this
doctrine had on the then fledgling publishing industry. Printing presses popped
up all over Protestant Europe, and by the beginning of the Sixteenth century,
had produced over nine million volumes! A revolution had occurred, and one the
chief instigators was the need to read. Literacy spread like wildfire; the
world would never be the same.

            As Europe&#039;s greatest
progeny, America could not help but share in the culture of the book. Here, the
changes which began with the Protestant reading revolution received the added
impetus of powerful political theories which clearly delineated the natural
rights of individual men. Included among these was, of course, self-governance,
and this in turn required that every citizen be at least minimally acquainted
with its fundamental principles. Red schoolhouses sprang up from east to west,
and the teachers in them helped their students learn. But the primary vehicle
of learning was always the book. It would be no exaggeration to say that from
colonial times through at least the first half of the twentieth century the the
heart, mind and soul of America was formed by books.

            ...Was formed. But is it still? Since the Second World War many have
been skeptical, and not without reason. Already hurt by the pseudo-philosophical
“post-modern” literary theories still fashionable in academia (one
all-too-representative professor I had the misfortune to speak with told me
that he teaches his students that Shakespeare, comic books and and a deck of
playing cards all possess the same degree of literary merit), books and reading
have been further damaged by electronic competitors: movies, television, and
worst of all, the Internet. Advocates of online reading argue that literature
will still be read and that only the medium – not the message – has changed.
But when these same tools can with equal ease, and in a split second, conjure
up games, videos, movies, photographs, TV shows, phone conversations and every
other conceivable form of cheap digital distraction, its difficult to see how
attention-demanding literature can keep up. Veteran Wahrenbrock&#039;s bookseller
Jan Tonessen put it concisely: “We&#039;re going from a culture that was once
dominated by this” – and he pointed to the words on a page – “ to this” – and
he then motioned to a photographic image.

            In a recent lecture at
Rice University, another skeptic, America&#039;s best known bookseller and Pulitzer
Prize winning author Larry McMurtry, mourned what he sees as the end of an era.
“My theme is a sad one. It&#039;s the end of reading. I had always thought that
books may end, but reading would not. I&#039;m not so sure anymore.” He continued,
“It&#039;s just sad that what is being left behind is a very beautiful culture, the
culture of the book. I think it&#039;s gone, I don&#039;t think it will come back,” he
said. “My bookshop has become a temple. It&#039;s not a commercial real estate
anymore. They come in and hold a book as if they&#039;re holding a talismanic object
from a past culture. And, in a way, they are.&quot;

            Sure, many people will
continue to buy books on line. But utterly absent from such impersonal, sterile
transactions is the irreplaceable experience – the romance of browsing – with all of the attendant smells and textures
among out-of-print books on old wooden shelves, and the ever present possibility
of stumbling across that unexpected work of genius.

            And public libraries
will probably continue to exist in some form or other. But they too are
increasingly yielding to popular demands for contemporary media, and ultimately
this means fewer books. Just a few weeks ago, a customer asked me if I had a
specific volume from Will and Ariel Durant&#039;s magnificent The Story of Civilization. He said he tried to find it out at the
library but was told that they no longer carry the set. The reason: it wasn&#039;t popular
enough.

            Wahrenbrock&#039;s Bookhouse
was San Diego&#039;s oldest and most distinguished inventory of &quot;talismanic
object[s] from a past culture.” And the question that faces us in the wake of
its demise is not can we survive
without stores like it, but what must we
be if the answer is yes. What are we without the past? Until recently
America, along with the rest of the West, had been guided by the seminal ideas,
emotions and desires, the stories, poems and annals that silently and
unobtrusively reside between two covers until they are opened. So far we have
had only had a foretaste of what will happen if they remain closed, and it is
bitter.

 

Craig S. Maxwell

Maxwell&#039;s House of Books

8285 La Mesa Blvd.

La Mesa, Ca 91941

619-462-3387

maxwellshouseofbooks@gmail.com]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As a used book dealer, this story&#8217;s near and dear to my heart. After San Diego&#8217;s oldest used book bookstore folded a few years back, I wrote the following:</p>
<p>Last year, Wahrenbrock&#8217;s Book House, San Diego&#8217;s oldest and best used bookstore, closed<br />
its doors forever. Yet its end is indicative of not only a troubled retail<br />
industry, but of the growing indifference toward reading and literature in<br />
general. I reflected on the meaning of this in what follows below&#8230;</p>
<p>            A REQUIEM FOR READING?</p>
<p>            The memorial service for<br />
my grandfather, Vernon Wahrenbrock, was sparsely attended; the inevitable consequence,<br />
I suppose, of his having lived nearly a century. All his friends and much of<br />
his family were gone. We, his survivors, were there of course. And so were a<br />
few of the folks he&#8217;d gotten to know at the rest home. But the only other<br />
person to pay his respects that day was Chuck Valverde. It was February 18th, 2008, and<br />
already he was pale and thin. Still, I had no way of knowing that within six<br />
months I and hundreds of others would be attending a memorial service for Chuck<br />
himself.</p>
<p>            The link between these<br />
very dissimilar but remarkable men was, of course, Wahrenbrock&#8217;s Bookhouse –<br />
the shop my grandfather founded in 1935 and that Chuck had operated (and later<br />
owned) since 1967. Wahrenbrock&#8217;s had always been the flagship of San Diego&#8217;s<br />
used bookstore fleet, and one of the best used bookstores on the West Coast.<br />
Recently, many San Diegans were shocked and saddened to hear that the store<br />
itself was gone – its doors closed forever.</p>
<p>            The store&#8217;s sudden<br />
demise, falling as it did hard on the heels of its owners&#8217; deaths, has provoked<br />
thought and memory. But this is due to more than mere chronological proximity.<br />
Here, smack on the front page of the San Diego Union-Tribune, was a story about<br />
a small business – Wahrenbrock&#8217;s – gone south. Why? Other failed ventures don&#8217;t<br />
get that kind of attention. Sure, at 74 the shop was old – at least by San<br />
Diego standards. But no one had paid any attention to my father&#8217;s business when<br />
it closed back in the nineties, and it had been around since 1896. No, there<br />
was something about Wahrenbrock&#8217;s, and perhaps about used bookshops in general<br />
(which have been steadily disappearing for twenty years or more) that led to<br />
all the attention and provoked our collective lament. I think I know the<br />
answer, but my explanation will require a brief detour through the past.</p>
<p>            I, too, was destined to<br />
become a used bookman. On one occasion during my informal yet invaluable<br />
apprenticeship with Brian Lucas at Adams Avenue Bookstore a co-worker, while<br />
casually thumbing through a volume said, “You know, this is a pretty durable<br />
piece of technology.” He was right. The technology to which he referred was the<br />
codex book – the book as we commonly know it. I was amazed at the profundity of<br />
that simple observation.</p>
<p>            In ancient Greece and<br />
Rome, books had been printed on long rolls (think of cellophane or aluminum<br />
wrap) called scrolls. This made the reproduction of them (not to mention dog<br />
earing pages!) very difficult. But even after the eighth century when most them<br />
had been copied into codex form – individual pages sewn or glued at one edge to<br />
a spine with hinged boards – the difficulty of reproduction remained.<br />
Fortunately, both the inconvenience and the scarcity of this commodity were<br />
made more bearable by the paucity of need; few people could read. Literacy was<br />
largely the province of clerics and scholars. It wasn&#8217;t until around 1450 when<br />
Gutenberg invented moveable type that this technical difficulty was overcome,<br />
and in what must be one of the most momentous historical coincidences of all<br />
time, Gutenberg&#8217;s innovation coincided with the work of another man whose<br />
teachings and  followers would create for<br />
it an inexhaustible market: Martin Luther. Luther&#8217;s theology made the Book –<br />
the Bible, that is – more important for believers than was the Church itself.<br />
And this, of course, meant that people must become acquainted with it, must<br />
read it. In short, for Luther and his followers, reading was close to being a<br />
prerequisite for knowing God.</p>
<p>            Talk about an incentive!<br />
But whether he was right or wrong, one can easily imagine the effect this<br />
doctrine had on the then fledgling publishing industry. Printing presses popped<br />
up all over Protestant Europe, and by the beginning of the Sixteenth century,<br />
had produced over nine million volumes! A revolution had occurred, and one the<br />
chief instigators was the need to read. Literacy spread like wildfire; the<br />
world would never be the same.</p>
<p>            As Europe&#8217;s greatest<br />
progeny, America could not help but share in the culture of the book. Here, the<br />
changes which began with the Protestant reading revolution received the added<br />
impetus of powerful political theories which clearly delineated the natural<br />
rights of individual men. Included among these was, of course, self-governance,<br />
and this in turn required that every citizen be at least minimally acquainted<br />
with its fundamental principles. Red schoolhouses sprang up from east to west,<br />
and the teachers in them helped their students learn. But the primary vehicle<br />
of learning was always the book. It would be no exaggeration to say that from<br />
colonial times through at least the first half of the twentieth century the the<br />
heart, mind and soul of America was formed by books.</p>
<p>            &#8230;Was formed. But is it still? Since the Second World War many have<br />
been skeptical, and not without reason. Already hurt by the pseudo-philosophical<br />
“post-modern” literary theories still fashionable in academia (one<br />
all-too-representative professor I had the misfortune to speak with told me<br />
that he teaches his students that Shakespeare, comic books and and a deck of<br />
playing cards all possess the same degree of literary merit), books and reading<br />
have been further damaged by electronic competitors: movies, television, and<br />
worst of all, the Internet. Advocates of online reading argue that literature<br />
will still be read and that only the medium – not the message – has changed.<br />
But when these same tools can with equal ease, and in a split second, conjure<br />
up games, videos, movies, photographs, TV shows, phone conversations and every<br />
other conceivable form of cheap digital distraction, its difficult to see how<br />
attention-demanding literature can keep up. Veteran Wahrenbrock&#8217;s bookseller<br />
Jan Tonessen put it concisely: “We&#8217;re going from a culture that was once<br />
dominated by this” – and he pointed to the words on a page – “ to this” – and<br />
he then motioned to a photographic image.</p>
<p>            In a recent lecture at<br />
Rice University, another skeptic, America&#8217;s best known bookseller and Pulitzer<br />
Prize winning author Larry McMurtry, mourned what he sees as the end of an era.<br />
“My theme is a sad one. It&#8217;s the end of reading. I had always thought that<br />
books may end, but reading would not. I&#8217;m not so sure anymore.” He continued,<br />
“It&#8217;s just sad that what is being left behind is a very beautiful culture, the<br />
culture of the book. I think it&#8217;s gone, I don&#8217;t think it will come back,” he<br />
said. “My bookshop has become a temple. It&#8217;s not a commercial real estate<br />
anymore. They come in and hold a book as if they&#8217;re holding a talismanic object<br />
from a past culture. And, in a way, they are.&#8221;</p>
<p>            Sure, many people will<br />
continue to buy books on line. But utterly absent from such impersonal, sterile<br />
transactions is the irreplaceable experience – the romance of browsing – with all of the attendant smells and textures<br />
among out-of-print books on old wooden shelves, and the ever present possibility<br />
of stumbling across that unexpected work of genius.</p>
<p>            And public libraries<br />
will probably continue to exist in some form or other. But they too are<br />
increasingly yielding to popular demands for contemporary media, and ultimately<br />
this means fewer books. Just a few weeks ago, a customer asked me if I had a<br />
specific volume from Will and Ariel Durant&#8217;s magnificent The Story of Civilization. He said he tried to find it out at the<br />
library but was told that they no longer carry the set. The reason: it wasn&#8217;t popular<br />
enough.</p>
<p>            Wahrenbrock&#8217;s Bookhouse<br />
was San Diego&#8217;s oldest and most distinguished inventory of &#8220;talismanic<br />
object[s] from a past culture.” And the question that faces us in the wake of<br />
its demise is not can we survive<br />
without stores like it, but what must we<br />
be if the answer is yes. What are we without the past? Until recently<br />
America, along with the rest of the West, had been guided by the seminal ideas,<br />
emotions and desires, the stories, poems and annals that silently and<br />
unobtrusively reside between two covers until they are opened. So far we have<br />
had only had a foretaste of what will happen if they remain closed, and it is<br />
bitter.</p>
<p>Craig S. Maxwell</p>
<p>Maxwell&#8217;s House of Books</p>
<p>8285 La Mesa Blvd.</p>
<p>La Mesa, Ca 91941</p>
<p>619-462-3387</p>
<p><a href="mailto:maxwellshouseofbooks@gmail.com">maxwellshouseofbooks@gmail.com</a></p>
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		<title>By: Linda</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Linda]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jan 2014 21:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[we must get our young people to understand the love of BOOKS...now before it&#039;s too late!]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>we must get our young people to understand the love of BOOKS&#8230;now before it&#8217;s too late!</p>
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		<title>By: unionville</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/a-bookless-library-makes-as-much-sense-as-a-foodless-kitchen/comment-page-1/#comment-5349998</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[unionville]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jan 2014 16:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#039;m thankful for books too.  Curling up with a laptop just isn&#039;t quite as enjoyable.  Too bulky.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m thankful for books too.  Curling up with a laptop just isn&#8217;t quite as enjoyable.  Too bulky.</p>
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		<title>By: Lizzie Basara</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/a-bookless-library-makes-as-much-sense-as-a-foodless-kitchen/comment-page-1/#comment-5349985</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lizzie Basara]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jan 2014 16:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I remember the Bookmobile would come once a week in the summer - it was exciting to get to pick out a book and take it home.  I am so thankful for books :)]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I remember the Bookmobile would come once a week in the summer &#8211; it was exciting to get to pick out a book and take it home.  I am so thankful for books <img src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p>
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