even*cleveland: gifts for library-goers

gifts for library-goers

Eleven items worth checking out:

A tote that supports special collections

A cardigan with ample pockets to stow glasses, tissues and 3x5 cards

Tools to mark the word and page

A card case

A sleeve to protect borrowed books

An easy way to fish keys out of the bottom of a book bag

A bookmark for tomes

Headphones that make quiet places even quieter
Shoes for stepping softly

Notes for deep thoughts
An apron for blending in

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MZ Wallace x Raymond Pettibon tote for the NYPL / Dearborn cardigan / BYAMT bookmarks / bacterio card case / canvas book sleeve / wooden key chain / leather bookmark / B&O Play H8 headphones / Newark embroidered flats / altitude memo block / library worker's apron

What sort of diary should I like mine to be? Something loose-knit and yet not slovenly, so elastic that it will embrace anything, solemn, slight or beautiful, that comes into my mind. I should like it to resemble some deep old desk or capacious hold-all, in which one flings a mass of odds and ends without looking them through. I should like to come back, after a year or two, and find that the collection had sorted itself and refined itself and coalesced, as such deposits so mysteriously do, into a mould, transparent enough to reflect the light of our life, and yet steady, tranquil compounds with the aloofness of a work of art. The main requisite, I think, on reading my old volumes, is not to play the part of a censor, but to write as the mood comes or of anything whatever; since I was curious to find how I went for things put in haphazard, and found the significance to lie where I never saw it at the time.

V. Woolf

Don't be amazed if you see my eyes always wandering. In fact, this is my way of reading, and it is only in this way that reading proves fruitful for me. If a book truly interests me, I cannot follow it for more than a few lines before my mind, having seized on a thought that the text suggests to it, or a feeling, or a question, or an image, goes off on a tangent and springs from thought to thought, from image to image, in an itinerary of reasonings and fantasies that I feel the need to pursue to the end, moving away from the book until I have lost sight of it. The stimulus of reading is indispensable to me, and of meaty reading, even if, of every book, I manage to read no more than a few pages. But those few pages already enclose for me whole universes, which I can never exhaust.

Italo Calvino

Why didn't she try collecting something? It didn't matter what. She would find it gave an interest to life, and there was no end to the little curiosities one could easily pick up.

Henry James

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