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[whitereflection]

http://community.livejournal.com/huntersarchives/43745.html
Crack the Spine, Let the Words Fall Out by paxlux at huntersarchives, Sam/Dean, PG13, 9173 words.

Sam, Dean, books, through the years. Completely amazing and brilliant. Jeebus christ, just read it. (Haven't read the stuff I set aside/was recced for comfort reading yet, but took some time for this and am so goddanged glad I did. Incredible, awesome stuff.)


S'funny, one of the things that has been getting me through this week is books. Been dragging about five back and forth with me, gradually working through them, trading them out as I finish. I definitely don't mind electronic, have no problem reading on the web, but nothing will replace the made-of-paper sort for me.

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[aliens-dance.livejournal.com]

Yes, books are the best! <33

[paxlux.livejournal.com]

First off: THANK YOU. HEAPS AND MOUNDS. :)

Secondly, yes, nothing will ever replace a proper book. Even when we probably buy an iPad. I still prefer to hold a book and turn pages.

[whitereflection.livejournal.com]

It's funny, when my job at a local university library was going down the drain (long story), one of the (many >_> ) things that made me unhappy was the administration's changed attitude regarding books. They made our motto "Beyond books" and I just could not and still can't comprehend that. It made me honest-to-deities angry. To me it was like saying "Beyond gravity" or "Beyond modern medicine" or something like that. How could they turn their noses up at something that's so part of who human beings are, part of our culture, part of our history, and act like they're useless just because there's other ways of presenting information?

Okay, and maybe I took it a bit personally because being in cataloging and acquisitions, I was one of those whose job it was to, you know, order and catalog books, and them all but saying books were worthless not so subtly implied that I and those like me were worthless, so yeahhh. Anyway. *cough*

Some of my most vivid childhood memories are related to libraries and books, and one of the things I enjoyed most about working at a library was being so freaking *surrounded* by them. Still gets to me that dust and mold allergies make it so I can't work in places like that anymore.