Looks like magazine junkies have found their little heaven right here on earth
DO YOU READ MEhttp://www.doyoureadme.de/shop/ if this is not the best place to find what you need, nothing will be. Address is Potsdamer Strasse 98.
Electronic Reader
There is a piece of metal in my hand that shows me letters of the alphabet
Tell me what you want, but holding a real paper book in hand
beats this stuff or have you ever enjoyed sniffing your kindle, e-reader,
pencil scribbled your thoughts in it, earmarked it, put a beautiful book mark
handmade by your children in it, found an old tube ticket in it that reminds
you of a lovely day with a lover, or given it to your friend to read.
Come on, books are made to share and who shares their e-reader????
American Memorial Library in Berlin
- Amerika Bibliothek in its beginning 1954 Berlin Kreuzberg
This is truly one of the best public libraries in Berlin even today. Called “Zentralbibliothek -und Landesbibliothek” this particular one has an excellent archive. That means, most books are not on the shelves, but catalogued in their online database and we simply click to order and it will be brought up within a few minutes or delivered to your local branch, the Stadtbibliothek. I have found many obscure titles here, and of course their selection of English books is vast, but they also have lots of Turkish material, books in Russian, a wonderful music collection, magazines from around the world, and oh I cannot tell you , this is really the place to hang out on a rainy afternoon. But like in many public libraries these days, space is often taken up by students doing their homework and that can be a pain in the rear.
They also have 4 tv units to watch DVDs and videos, yes, they also have an incredible movie collection with international films, and there is even a dark room to watch your movie all by your very lonesome. There is one nuisance and that is that not all subject areas are within this wonderful place. Here you’ll find the Humanities, if you need books on law, science, Berlin stuff and what not, then you have to go to the big old library near the Dom and Alexanderplatz. Well, worth the trip, too. ENJOY your reading afternoons!
“At our sites in Berlin-Mitte (Berlin City Library), Berlin-Kreuzberg (America Memorial Library), and Berlin-Charlottenburg/Wilmersdorf (Library of the Berlin Senate, integrated since 1st January 2005) we hold altogether more than 3.4 million electronic and printed media. Our customers may use PC and internet work stations as well as research terminals.”
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And today, not changed at all.
No library without computers. Gone are the days when people only wanted books from a library
Book Hunting in India
Finding books in India means getting your hands dirty and digging deep
in Paharganj, New Delhi
In Noida, UP
Most book stalls are outdoors, and even real bookshops often do not work with computers.
The Book Seller in India, for the most part, view their stock as commodity, they don’t keep up
with literary news and trends. There is a lot of old stock around, and much of what no one reads
in Europe or America anymore is quite popular in India, such as “Mein Kampf” or
“The Power of Positive Thinking” (1936), Sidney Sheldon or P.G.Wodehouse novels.
Oh, well….
Darya Ganj Sunday Book Bazar in Old Delhi
In Connaught Place, New Delhi
In Old Delhi, an Islamic stall
Read and Swap in the Castle Park
Reading in the park. Especially nice on a rainy afternoon.
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- This public reading hall is part of a beautiful old park in the middle of Darmstadt, Germany. People can bring their old books and swap them
University Library
Not the most inviting place in the world, this college library of the Technical University in Berlin, sponsored by Volkswagen. The artist Elisabeth Arlt was asked to adorn the concrete structure in the inside with quotes. This one here “Dedicated to Lorna with Love” to refer to author’s book dedictions.
- University Library of the Technical University in Berlin in the Volkswagen House
Tasty Book Breaks
American Rust with a Belgian Waffle
Hot chocolate with a French Mystery novel in German
Cavedweller with tiramissu cake
How to be Free with a fancy white chocolate coffee
Temptations of the West with a strawberry smoothie
Hindi Dreams and more smoothies
Berlin for readers with a Turkish raisin roll
Dublin Bookshops
Dublin bookshop full of worms
Dublin bookshop full of winding stairs
Dublin bookshop just up the stairs
Lots of hodging and figging going on here in this shop of books, full of Irish books about Ireland and Irish people and Irish history and Irish sports and Irish poetry and Irish countryside and lots of other green stuff. A bit too Irish all and all for my taste
Dublin's big one, too commercial for my taste, but like the clock outside
No UK nor Irish city without Waterstone, this one here at least has a nice upstairs cafe
Only for the FAINT at heart and the SAINTS at heart. The National Bible Society's book shop.
If you don't like the bars in Temple Bar, just visit the Saturday morning book market and then take the new book to the bar. Cheers!
Dublin still has loads of mysteries to solve!
Readers' Lives are always hanging by a thread. Grab it then while you can
