Page-turner Versus Pixel Pillows

TV tie-in book signpost.

Ed Flanders, Deconstruction Worker

'3 Second Loading Zone.'

The Bookworm

Not to be a motion picture. Will remain just a book.

"Your hunch was right, Officer Garcia. We'll need a good editor to clean up this manuscript and bring his unfinished novel to a satisfying conclusion."

"That's five votes for In The Midst of Winter....three votes for The Hollow Ground....and, again, one vote for Moby-Dick."

Geek fairies

'I'm not being punished! I'm reading because I happen to enjoy reading!'

Gamers

Kid to boy in library: 'Oh, we came at the busiest part of the day ... it's a reading frenzy.'

"You have issues? Be more specific, what issues?"

Downloads.

"There are those who write books to be read and other who write novels for bookshelves."

'I've got one week to master this program. The boss is threatening to hire an eight year old.'

"I'm ready for summer vacation! A good book takes you where you've never been!"

"He's writing a novel for the first time in decades. It has less to do with the urge to create or say something new, and more to do with the fact that all his previous books are now out of print."

Technology and literature

Reading in the family.

"Wi-fi....Wi-fi...WI....FI!...."

"Where do you get your derivative ideas?"

Getting the bus back into town from the Bologna Children's Book Fair...

"Hon, I'm taking your advice and starting a new chapter."

"We thought about a restaurant and decided we were more of a bookstore."

Head full of Books.

TV vs Reading

Free Little Library

'It's another office memo from that Mr. Tolstoy.'

'It's a slice of life...I cut a long story short.'

' I see Brad's playing his new video game again.'

One book... One book... One book...