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Thursday, July 4, 2013

Quotes on Reading-4:

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve - Charles de Montesquieu

Quotes on Books-21:

It does not matter, I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books – Jo Walton

Websites to Watch-2: HOLYBOOKS.COM

Prof Raghunathan very kindly drew my attention to this wonderful website and provided me the link.  Since then I have downloaded many great books and have also enrolled for the Monthly Newsletter the site sends. The site is HOLYBOOKS.COM.  I am reproducing the info provided by the site, about it:


"Holy Books is the largest collection of high quality sacred texts, holy books, spiritual texts as PDF ebooks you will find on the Internet. All books are free to download. For example you can download the Bible, download the Quaran, the Vedas and thousands of ancient texts on religion and spiritual practice.

All books are Free Public Domain Books. This means that you can download and read them for free from this site. If you are aware of books that should be on this site please contact me, by sending an email to webmaster: hh@ytr.dk. I sometimes get mails about possible copyright infringement. I have removed some books because I have made a mistake about copyright, but some books where actually public domain books despite what the publishers told me. When I am in doubt about the status of a book I use these copyright guidelines for books (This website is operated from Denmark, and therefore 'the author life + 70 years' is what I follow as a general guideline)'

HolyBookscom is and maintained by Danish freelance journalist Hans Henrik Lichtenberg. All suggestion are very welcome. Send a mail to hh@ytr.dk


I am reproducing below a recent mail (newsletter) I received from Holybooks.com:

"Dear friends of Holybooks.com. Here are the latest additions to the library. Holybooks.com is now ready for a lot more traffic. During the last month a lot of work have been done on the server to make the site work faster. All pages loads a lot quicker now and it should be a better experience to use the site, not the least for all our users from remote areas, far away from the servers physical position in Frankfurt, Germany.

The number of subscribers to this newsletter has from now on exceeded 2.500 receivers and will cost 20 USD pr. month to send out. If anyone is be interested in sponsoring this newsletter, I would be happy to mention your business, website etc. here or on the website.

Thanks to all of you who have connected to Holybooks.com through the Facebook-page, you can do the same here: Holybooks.com Facebook page, please like and share with your contacts if you find it usefull.

Best wishes

Admin
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Grateful thanks to Holybooks.com and Danish freelance journalist Hans Henrik Lichtenberg.  

May God bless Mr.Hans Lichtenberg! 

Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Quotes on Reading-3:

Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss - Nora Ephron

Quotes on Books-20:

"There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all." — Jacqueline Kennedy

Monday, July 1, 2013

Quotes on Books-19:

Behind every stack of books is a flood of knowledge.

Quotes on Reading-2:

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him or her. ~ Maya Angelou