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wordsbydan:

More great quotes about libraries on photos of beautiful libraries

After the amazing response to the last one of these I made, I’ve put together more great library quotes - this time adding in your suggestions - including one from this awesome song. Keep quiet and read books:

1. George Peabody Library - Baltimore
2. Biblioteca Joanina, University of Coimbra - Portugal
3. Royal Library of the Monastery of El Escorial - Spain
4. Melk Monastery Library - Austria
5. Queen’s College Library, Oxford University - Oxford
6. Abbey Library St. Gallen - Switzerland
7. Strahov Monastery Library - Prague

Click to see full size. Support your local library, kids. Read part one.

Libraries give us Power Books make us Free by Mina Bach

A celebration of the public library system, reading and books.
150 x 240mm, 140 pages, hand bound.

garance510:

TENT : BOOK on BOOK | Sumally (サマリー)

djevojka:

The Reader by Yelena Bryksenkova

sairobee:

but i wanted to use that thing in my hands: a memoir

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.” — Stephen King

(Source: plus.google.com, via vedrai)

Lillian Gish reading with a white kitten on her shoulder

(Source: kittenmeats)

wordsbydan:

7 Great quotes about libraries on photos of beautiful libraries

With libraries around the world in danger of extinction, Flavorwire posted a series of great quotes about libraries from famous writers. I decided to pair them with some of the world’s most beautiful libraries. You’re welcome;

1. Trinity College Library - University of Dublin
2. University Club Library – New York City
3. Admont Abbey Library – Austria
4. Real Gabinete Português de Leitura – Rio de Janeiro
5. Suzzalo Library at the University of Washington – Seattle
6. Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
7. Canadian Library of Parliament – Ottawa

Click on the photo to see it full size. Support your local library, kids.

(Source: kitten-little)