Someone who is a bibliophile herself recently asked with a note of despair in her voice how she could persuade people to try out some books. I had hardly any advice for her, except to recall something I had read in Reader's Digest long ago:
A librarian who had the same problem (subscribers only went for the latest pulp fiction and refused to look at classics of literature or serious non-fiction) hit upon the idea of labelling one particular shelf 'For high-IQ readers only', and putting all her favourite titles on it. Books started flying off that shelf.
Now whether the borrowers actually read the books they took home is, of course, another matter altogether!
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2 comments:
There is immense joy in being ignorant.So why read books and waste time,O! precious time I won't waste you,so lets start gossiping over mobile with unlimited talk time.
The librarian must've taken a leaf from that fairy tale "The Emporer's New Clothes" :)
Regards,
Sumitha
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