The Dog-Eared Days of Summer
The Librarian Is In
The New York Public Library
4.7 • 595 Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2019
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Do you dog-ear? Use bookmarks or sticky notes? Write notes in margins? Or do you—heaven forbid—underline? We delve deep into the ethical implications of leaving your mark on library books. Plus: two new summer reads and one musical cue.
Suggest Hot Topix(TM) or tell us what you think about summer reading!
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, and welcome to The Librarian is in the New York Public Library podcast about books. |
| 0:17.5 | Did we change this culture and what to read next? |
| 0:20.2 | I am Frank. I'm Gwen. And we're here to talk |
| 0:24.0 | about our favorite thing. We are. We're going to do a hot topic and a hot topic from a listener. |
| 0:30.8 | We're so excited. Thank you listeners for calling and writing. And we're going to do two book |
| 0:35.0 | recommendations. This is working for me. I like the listener recommendations. Me too. I love them. So what you got? I mean, I know what you got because you tell me about it. And because we prepared. And we prepared. And actually I had an inspiration, but go ahead. Okay. Oh, an inspiration about the topic? Just go ahead. Can I wish you a happy birthday first? Happy birthday, Frank. |
| 0:56.1 | It's not today. When was it? July 14th. Oh, I'm going to have to write that on my calendar. |
| 1:01.6 | Bastille Day. So we had put out a call for hot topics and just kind of general, interesting things |
| 1:07.6 | that are happening in the world of libraries and the world of reading. |
| 1:11.7 | And we had a really great response. |
| 1:14.2 | And so we're really excited to talk about one of them right now. |
| 1:17.2 | Our producer, Skyler, is going to read it. |
| 1:19.5 | All right. |
| 1:19.7 | So this is from a listener, Sylvia Fernandez, who is a children's librarian who wrote in from |
| 1:26.2 | Barcelona, Spain. |
| 1:28.3 | She writes, my hot topic request is underlining books. |
| 1:33.3 | Being a librarian myself, I'm aware that it is something that we should warn our readers not to do in our printed materials, |
| 1:39.3 | but I'm an avid underliner of sentences, paragraphs, ideas, things that stand out to me while I'm reading. |
| 1:46.0 | I keep notebooks of the favorite passages from the books I'm reading. |
| 1:49.0 | And I would like to know if you also do so, or what are your thoughts about it? |
| 1:53.0 | What kind of passages are you interested in marking or that stand out for you? |
| 1:58.0 | And if you've come across some interesting underlined or annotated books in the |
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