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In those moments of utter happiness, I ...

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:15:20 GMT

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You are my priority and I had set aside what I was doing and had started listening to your voice… It was enough for me that you came calling me back and in those moments of utter happiness, words had failed me completely!

It means that your voice had brought a smile on my face because you had brought with you so many wonderful memories of our sharing of the life and of living!

It means that I can talk whatever I want with you and I don't need to be alert and watching my words as I do with the others!

It means that there is a comfort zone around us and I feel safe and secure around your voice

It means that I love even the gaps of silence, when we stop talking in between…

It means that I love you so much that your being at the other end is more than enough for me than my wanting to talk to you in anyway!

Welcome back to my orbit, my dear!

Addicted to reading as though to drinks & drugs...

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:52:23 GMT

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Clip Source: www.bookstove.com

The summer is the season of the pulsation of lights and of shining! The sharp rays of the Sun dazzle every little object it touches on! The raising mercury does not deter a serious reader from the absorption of his book! The summer months are for festivity and for bliss! The summer months are made for walking in and out of the numerous bookshops, both old and new, holding of multiple of bags, trying to collect the different kinds of books for reading now and for later too!

Only a lover of books can understand the meaning of being alive in the rainy season…the light chill creeping through the windows and the parapet, the steaming cup of coffee within the reach of your hands, sitting slantingly on the bed with fluffy pillows cushioning your head, a light bed sheet carelessly wrapped around your knees, the torrential rain crafting the musical melody that perfects one's mood for the reading at hand, the dark night blanketing the sky and the surroundings

silky touch of the new book covers,

Books that will induce a mindf***k

Sat, 24 May 2008 09:05:25 GMT

clipped by: karokan
clipper's remarks: This list goes on and on. I love it!

Clip Source: www.everything2.com

Books that will induce a mindfuck

Here is the list of books that will officially induce mindfucks, sorted alphabetically by author. Those authors in bold have been recommended by one or more people as being generally mindfucking - any books listed under their names are particularly odd. You're welcome to /msg me to make an addition to this list.

And finally, although he's way down at the bottom, my personal recommendation is definitely Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States, as it turns the ultimate mindfuck: inverting the world-view of our entire culture, and it is non-fiction.

Adams, Douglas

Rand, Ayn

The Fountainhead

Lewis, C.S.

Out of the Silent Planet
Perelandra
That Hideous Strength

Poe, Edgar Allan

Carroll, Lewis

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The Online Books Page

Wed, 14 May 2008 21:01:21 GMT

clipped by: Socratoad
clipper's remarks: Just in case some of you just might be suffering from the delusion that someday you might be able to shut down your computers and go and breath the fresh air that someone once told me is actually to be found outside.

Clip Source: digital.library.upenn.edu

BOOKS ONLINE

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Listing over 30,000 free books on the Web - Updated Tuesday, May 13, 2008

The Complete Literary Works of Mark Twain

Wed, 07 May 2008 11:46:10 GMT

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clipper's remarks: for your weekend reading....Free Books in the public domain from the Classic Literature Library

There are more book titles at the source page - I clipped up to the limit......

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Mark Twain - Author

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The Innocents Abroad 1869

1601 1880

A Tramp Abroad 1880

Tom Sawyer Abroad 1894

Mark Twain's Letters, Complete

Mark Twain a Biography Volume I Part 1 1835-1866

Mark Twain a Biography Volume II Part 1 1875-1886

Mark Twain a Biography Volume III Part 1 1900-1907

The Boys Life of Mark Twain

Those Extraordinary Twins

In Defense of Harriet Shelley

Essays on Paul Bourget

The Mysterious Stranger 1916 uncompleted

Is Shakespeare Dead? 1909

A Horse's Tale 1907

Christian Science 1907

Mark Twain's Speeches 1906

A Dog's Tale 1904

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1885

The Prince and the Pauper 1881

The Stolen White Elephant 1882

Life on the Mississippi 1883

Roughing It 1872

Curious Republic of Gondour 1870

A Burlesque Autobiography 1871

The Gilded Age 1873

Sketches New and Old 1875

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 1876

Carnival of Crime in CT 1877

Following the Equator 1897

Tom Sawyer, Detective 1896

On the Decay of the Art of Lying

Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc Vol 1 1896

The $30,000 Bequest 1906

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Tags: books, public domain

Google’s Book Search Offers 100 Million Texts

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 02:33:16 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I use this regularly

Clip Source: www.redorbit.com

Google’s Book Search Offers 100 Million Texts

Courtney Mitchel, of the University of Michigan library’s book-shelving department is among hundreds of librarians who spend hours of each day going through almost 600 pages of some of the world’s oldest books.

Their work is part of Google’s Book Search, a project that plans to offer its users access to digital versions of 50 million to 100 million ancient texts.

Among the books being scanned by librarians is one which they believe to be the oldest Bible in the world printed in Arabic.

Book Search allows users to search books through a variety of topics

. They are allowed to download the entire text as long as the book is not held under copyright. If it is, or if they just want to read an original, they can use Book Search to find copies to buy or borrow.

More than 1 million rare or fragile books have been digitized through the Google-Michigan partnership since it began in 2004, with an estimated 6 million to go.

Tags: literature, books, google, texts, reading

Free eBooks

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 05:32:29 GMT

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Clip Source: www.planetebook.com

Free eBooks — All Our Classic Books and Novels

All our literature is entirely free for you to download. To get notified automatically each time we publish new eBooks, subscribe to out eBooks newsletter or eBooks blog .

1984 by George Orwell

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Aesop's Fables by Aesop

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll

Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Grimms Fairy Tales by the brothers Grimm

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

Lady Chatterly’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Paradise Lost by John Milton

Pride and Prejudice

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Iliad by Homer

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Scientists on their "life-changing" books

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 21:59:46 GMT

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Clip Source: www.boingboing.net

I always enjoy hearing about the reading habits of people who are much smarter and more interesting than me. New Scientist has a feature package where seventeen big name scientists recommend books that they considered "life-changing." Here is the list of the scientists and the books they suggest, with each title linking to Amazon. Follow the link at the bottom of the post to the New Scientist article where you can read the scientists' thoughts on their picks. From New Scientist:

1. Farthest North - Steve Jones, geneticist

2. The Art of the Soluble - V. S. Ramachandran, neuroscientist

4. The Foundation trilogy - Michio Kaku, theoretical physicist

5. Alice in Wonderland - Alison Gopnik, developmental psychologist

6. One, Two, Three... Infinity - Sean Carroll, theoretical physicist

13. Catch-22 / The First Three Minutes - Lawrence Krauss, physicist

15. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Chris Frith, neuroscientist

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Libraries this beautiful..Oh God!

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 10:32:32 GMT

clipped by: mugofcoffee
clipper's remarks: I love books and even browsing books in such an exotic atmosphere must be a real blessing! sigh...

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Strahov Theological Hall - Original Baroque Cabinets

Strahov Theological Hall; Statue of John the Evangelist Holding a Book

Strahov Philosophical Hall

Abbey Library St. Gallen, Switzerland

Biblioteca Angelica, Rome, Italy

Biblioteca do Palacio e Convento de Mafra I, Lisbon Coast, Portugal

Biblioteca Palafoxiana, Puebla, Mexico

Bibliotecha de la Real Academia De La Lengua, Madrid, Spain

Bibliotheque Alencon, Normandy, France

Bibliothéque Nationale de France, Paris, France

Bodlein Library, Oxford University, England

Boston Copley Public Library, Boston, USA

British Reading Room, British Museum, London, England

Casanatense Library, Rome, Italy

Cathedral Library, Kalocsa, Hungary

Dutch Royal Archives Library, Netherlands

El Escorial Library, San Lorenzo, Spain

Frederick Ferris Thompson Memorial Library, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, USA

Handelingenkamer Tweede Kamer Der Staten-Generaal Den Haag, the Hague, Netherlands

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Best places to get free ebooks...

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 02:18:34 GMT

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clipper's remarks: still more on the site...could clip only these...

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ManyBooks - Free eBooks for your PDA, iPod, or eBook reader - Thanks Tony Bryan & abben

BookCrossing - Where real books are released into the wild to be found by others - Thanks Engtech

LibraryElf - The perfect companion to a public library system - Thanks Engtech

Scribd - Open library to publish and discover documents online - Thanks CincauHangus

Word Public Library - 400,000 PDF ebooks for download - Thanks Ellen

Free Tech Books - Free computer science and engineering books (+ lecture notes) - Thanks Ellen

Bookins - Swap real books with other readers - Thanks Jimbob

WellToldTales - Free short story podcasts (like audiobooks, but shorter) - Thanks Kevin C.

Wowio - Public domain, free legitimate copyrighted materials & one of the only with a selection of Comic Books - Thanks Jane and Art Dardia

BizBooktalk - Free book giveaway contests on Fridays - Thanks Brandon

MoochMuch - Organize your book lending with your friends - Thanks Bobby

Tags: books, reading, write, ebooks, library.

Interesting book shelves... pictures

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:27:38 GMT

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clipper's remarks: yes, they are interesting...

Clip Source: www.crookedbrains.net

Tags: book shelves, interesting.