#love libraries :)

[caedmonofwhitby]

Chetham’s Library, Manchester

Chetham’s Library was founded in 1653 and is the oldest public library in the English-speaking world.

The Library began acquiring books in August 1655, and has been adding to the collections ever since. As well as early printed books, the collection includes ephemera, manuscript diaries, letters and deeds, prints, paintings and glass lantern slides.

The Library is also known for being the place where Marx and Engels met to discuss their revolutionary ideas that changed the world. It’s also where Dr. John Dee supposedly summoned the Devil!

[eowyn7023]

No money to buy books. If I want to read it, it has to be in the library.

Destroy the myth that libraries are no longer relevant. If you use your library, please reblog.

[yeepof]

Local PHD student at wizard school HARRASSED!! FOR SHAME!!

[falloutnewnobody]

donating my heavily annotated copy of house of leaves to the local library so that the person reading it gets a 5th layer of narrative to be confused by

[academia-lucifer]

Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.

— William Faulkner.

[cynicalclassicist]

Put this stuff out! As someone who works in a library I very much approve of all this!

just wanted to post about the books unbanned initiative — it allows teens/college students to get library cards in the following cities:

brooklyn public library (ages 13-21) — email booksunbanned@bklynlibrary.org to get your free card

seattle public library (ages 13-26) — sign up here

boston public library (ages 13-26) — sign up here

la county library (ages 13-18; california only) — sign up here

san diego public library (ages 12 -26) — sign up here

brooklyn public library, seattle public library, boston public library and la county library all use libby, whereas the san diego public library uses cloud library.

there's also the queer liberation library, which is a free digital library you can sign up for here. anyone with a US mailing address can apply for this one, and there's no age limit!

[shisasan]

From February 16 to 17, 1913 Letters to Felice by Franz Kafka First published : 1973

[existentialyearning]

Salma Deera, "Salt"

[paracosmoon]

[ur-daily-inspiration]

[anxiousanniesstuff]

Not sure about elsewhere, but in UK libraries you can borrow the magazine via the Libby app or website

Buy the physical copy of the SFX Magazine with a great article about S2! :) Link here, €9.70 Use code WELCOME5 for saving 5% :) - €9.21 Including postage.

[sehsfav]

— james joyce.

[heycallmeplease]

Was your star next to mine ?

[daily-spooky]

[x10x]

I was made to read books, live by the ocean walk beneath the trees, and be madly in love.

[nyccheesecakez]

life's too short to love someone quietly, love someone who'll love you loudly