Re: [AlwaysLearning] Book Reading
Chris Swift
Nice to see there are other people who also don't mark their books.
I obviously used to mix with the wrong sort of people.
I've found in the past that people thought I was odd or that the subject was
just plain boring.
I actually find the mechanical process of reading quite interesting.
At the risk now of being boring does anyone give any attention to
page-turning.
When I was at school we had a teacher who took us for 'library lesson'.
This consisted of us sitting down in absolute silence and just reading.
He used to patrol the aisles with a ruler.
If he caught anyone turning the pages incorrectly he would hit them on the
hand with the edge of the ruler.
The 'correct' way was putting your finger underneath the top right hand
corner of the right hand page and sliding the page over.
I never did find out how left handers got on !
Despite having a lot of residual bad habits resulting from not wanting to do
what school taught me, this is one habit that has stayed with me.
Chris
I obviously used to mix with the wrong sort of people.
I've found in the past that people thought I was odd or that the subject was
just plain boring.
I actually find the mechanical process of reading quite interesting.
At the risk now of being boring does anyone give any attention to
page-turning.
When I was at school we had a teacher who took us for 'library lesson'.
This consisted of us sitting down in absolute silence and just reading.
He used to patrol the aisles with a ruler.
If he caught anyone turning the pages incorrectly he would hit them on the
hand with the edge of the ruler.
The 'correct' way was putting your finger underneath the top right hand
corner of the right hand page and sliding the page over.
I never did find out how left handers got on !
Despite having a lot of residual bad habits resulting from not wanting to do
what school taught me, this is one habit that has stayed with me.
Chris
Rodney and Rebecca Atherton
>The 'correct' way was putting your finger underneath the top right handcorner
I guess he wouldn't have been too happy to see you lick your finger so that
the page would stick to it as we you tried to turn it........
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In a message dated 6/10/2005 5:02:25 AM Mountain Daylight Time,
Chris@... writes:
At the risk now of being boring does anyone give any attention to
page-turning.
When I was at school we had a teacher who took us for 'library lesson'.
================
I was shown that by two or three teachers. It was a matter of etiquette and
courtesy. In a library, the books don't belong to the reader, and I was in
school in the 60's, when the teachers had grown up with expensive books, and
weren't fully aware how relatively inexpensive book production would become.
It's not only better for the book, it's quieter. Nobody hit us with a
ruler, though. How could THAT be quiet and good library etiquette!? <g>
When I went to the university in the early 70's, they had just recently gone
from a longtime closed-stacks library (patrons brought the call number and
an employee got the book and brought it back to the charge desk) partly because
(Keith and I discussed this just Wednesday!) they had a 7 floor book tower
with a cage elevator. Dangerous.
But in the early 70's they opened that up. There were books from the 19th
century there. I had a boyfriend who used to love old stuff too, and we would
go and just find the oldest books we could and sit and look at the details
of the bindings and illustrations and such. (Now they're all in special
collections rooms, back to the closed stacks plan and you can't just cruise for
age or binding.)
When I was a kid I gave books to the library whenever I could, thinking it
was a good idea. (I wouldn't do it for anything now, as they often go
straight to book sales where they're sold for pennies) but one was a collection of
poetry by Longfellow, and each colored illustration had a piece of (I don't
know the term, but fake vellum--partly see-through protective)..paper bound next
to it just to protect the illustration. I was ten or so and someone had
given it to me (my grandmother got it at a yard sale or something) and I thought
the library could take better care of it than I could. My mom didn't care
much about books at all, and I was still at the stage of having a REALLY messy
room I shared with my cousin. They did put that one in the library,
though, and I used to go and look at it sometimes.
One of the first displays I ever remember seeing was on a 1st grade field
trip to the library in Fort Worth, where they had a display glass case with a
Gutenburg Bible and a 19th century Mother Goose book. Probably other stuff,
but that's what I remember. I also remember the city bus and that we sat in
the front but there were adults sitting in the back. They were all Black.
We left Texas just a month or two later and I never lived there again.
I like books for the sake of the book-ness (bookitude? bookosity?). It took
me a while to get why my kids don't care as much about books-as-books as I
do. When I figured it out I wrote this:
_http://sandradodd.com/bookandsax_ (http://sandradodd.com/bookandsax)
and I have other book ideas and commentary collecting here:
_http://sandradodd.com/books_ (http://sandradodd.com/books)
Sandra
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Chris@... writes:
At the risk now of being boring does anyone give any attention to
page-turning.
When I was at school we had a teacher who took us for 'library lesson'.
================
I was shown that by two or three teachers. It was a matter of etiquette and
courtesy. In a library, the books don't belong to the reader, and I was in
school in the 60's, when the teachers had grown up with expensive books, and
weren't fully aware how relatively inexpensive book production would become.
It's not only better for the book, it's quieter. Nobody hit us with a
ruler, though. How could THAT be quiet and good library etiquette!? <g>
When I went to the university in the early 70's, they had just recently gone
from a longtime closed-stacks library (patrons brought the call number and
an employee got the book and brought it back to the charge desk) partly because
(Keith and I discussed this just Wednesday!) they had a 7 floor book tower
with a cage elevator. Dangerous.
But in the early 70's they opened that up. There were books from the 19th
century there. I had a boyfriend who used to love old stuff too, and we would
go and just find the oldest books we could and sit and look at the details
of the bindings and illustrations and such. (Now they're all in special
collections rooms, back to the closed stacks plan and you can't just cruise for
age or binding.)
When I was a kid I gave books to the library whenever I could, thinking it
was a good idea. (I wouldn't do it for anything now, as they often go
straight to book sales where they're sold for pennies) but one was a collection of
poetry by Longfellow, and each colored illustration had a piece of (I don't
know the term, but fake vellum--partly see-through protective)..paper bound next
to it just to protect the illustration. I was ten or so and someone had
given it to me (my grandmother got it at a yard sale or something) and I thought
the library could take better care of it than I could. My mom didn't care
much about books at all, and I was still at the stage of having a REALLY messy
room I shared with my cousin. They did put that one in the library,
though, and I used to go and look at it sometimes.
One of the first displays I ever remember seeing was on a 1st grade field
trip to the library in Fort Worth, where they had a display glass case with a
Gutenburg Bible and a 19th century Mother Goose book. Probably other stuff,
but that's what I remember. I also remember the city bus and that we sat in
the front but there were adults sitting in the back. They were all Black.
We left Texas just a month or two later and I never lived there again.
I like books for the sake of the book-ness (bookitude? bookosity?). It took
me a while to get why my kids don't care as much about books-as-books as I
do. When I figured it out I wrote this:
_http://sandradodd.com/bookandsax_ (http://sandradodd.com/bookandsax)
and I have other book ideas and commentary collecting here:
_http://sandradodd.com/books_ (http://sandradodd.com/books)
Sandra
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Chris Swift
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rodney and Rebecca Atherton" <rebeccawow@...>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 1:11 PM
Subject: RE: [AlwaysLearning] Book Reading
> >The 'correct' way was putting your finger underneath the top right hand
> corner
>
> I guess he wouldn't have been too happy to see you lick your finger so
that
> the page would stick to it as we you tried to turn it........
You could have lost fingers trying that !
chris
Elizabeth Hill
**
I actually find the mechanical process of reading quite interesting.**
Frank Smith, who has written pretty insightful books about learning (The Book of Learning and Forgetting) has also written quite a bit about reading and reading programs. You might find his work interesting.
Betsy
I actually find the mechanical process of reading quite interesting.**
Frank Smith, who has written pretty insightful books about learning (The Book of Learning and Forgetting) has also written quite a bit about reading and reading programs. You might find his work interesting.
Betsy
Chris Swift
Betsy
Thanks
Chris
Thanks
Chris
----- Original Message -----
From: "Elizabeth Hill" <ecsamhill@...>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 6:26 PM
Subject: Re: [AlwaysLearning] Re: Book Reading
>
> **
>
> I actually find the mechanical process of reading quite interesting.**
>
> Frank Smith, who has written pretty insightful books about learning (The
Book of Learning and Forgetting) has also written quite a bit about reading
and reading programs. You might find his work interesting.
>
> Betsy
Nanci Kuykendall
>I got into the habit of closing the book without any...
>kind of mark and skimming through it when I next
>picked it up to find the place where I was at.
>I was quite suprised as I got older that more people
>didn't do this.
>I think this is a good habit (it has always suited
>me) but I've yet to find anyone else that does it.
>I knew someone that used to remember the page numberI do that too, and I have for as long as I can
>she had to go back to !
>Chris
remember. I usually remember my page number, or the
vicinity of the page number. It's a habit to glance
at the page number before I close a book. Even
without that, it's a simple thing to gleam context
from a quick skim and find my page.
Nanci K.