Booku means5/17/2023 ![]() If you lend books to others, you might want to enforce a policy that they are returned promptly or, perhaps preferably, not at all. It is rewarding to find your books when looking for them the first time, rather than three weeks after you had the inspiration. It is liberating to cull books to make room for new ones. A book owner should estimate the value of books for insurance purposes. For somebody moving house it is wise to know in advance if all your books might fit in their new home. The reasons to catalogue a personal library are the same as that of a formal lending library. It is a great shame that I have dishevelled shelves. As a compulsive library user, I had requested and borrowed titles that occupied space on my home shelves all the while. The unwieldy nature of the books around the house had led to duplication before. On shelving a recently finished book, I found I had two copies, a hardback and a paperback. I have finished dozens of titles from a towering unread pile, but this progress masked deeper issues. I missed the melancholy of the slow-burn bildungsroman, the cut-through subtlety of accurately captured vernacular, the cocoon of nested narrative, the restlessness of the troubled exile, the triumph of an audacious plotline and the visceral mourning for characters, authors and translators who filled my head and shelves with ideas and then died. The material I digested in those 10 years was worthwhile, challenging, revelatory and technical, but the focus on academic texts meant I forfeited time to absorb great storytelling. This summer marks a year since I emerged from a decade of prescribed reading lists in pursuit of university degrees. As well as books, in these longer days I sharpen and blunt chainsaws, vaccinate cattle and cart hay. Sprint reading on these summer days is not entirely leisurely, however. Reading without supplementary or wholly artificial light means I do so without clock or phone to distract me. If I am still reading six hours later, then it will have been a productive morning. The first smudges of eastern light creep under my eyelids at the time of the solstice and remind me an urgent story awaits. A single sheet in a codex is a leaf and each side of a leaf is a page. In the history of hand-held physical supports for extended written compositions or records, the codex replaces its predecessor, the scroll. The technical term for this physical arrangement is codex. "The agent booked tickets to the show for the whole family"Ī book is a medium for recording information in the form of writing or images, typically composed of many pages bound together and protected by a cover. ![]() arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in advance Synonyms."The policeman booked her when she tried to solicit a man".record a charge in a police register Example."Her agent had booked her for several concerts in Tokyo"."they got a subpoena to examine our books".a record in which commercial accounts are recorded SynonymsĪccount book, book of account, ledger, ledger, leger, leger.a collection of playing cards satisfying the rules of a card game."they run things by the book around here".a collection of rules or prescribed standards on the basis of which decisions are made Synonyms.a written version of a play or other dramatic composition used in preparing for a performance Synonyms. ![]()
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