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Kennys Bookshop: “a world of its own, and a key to worlds unknown”

Posted on April 14, 2016 by John Connell

I love bookshops. I love all kinds of bookshops but I have a special liking for stores that sell secondhand books. I do buy a lot of new books, from both physic...

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Fiction, Non-Fiction and Facts

Posted on August 28, 2015 by John Connell

BBC Radio Four offers a number of fine programmes about books, writing and reading. I regularly enjoy A Good Read in which the host and two guests each s...

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Books That Made Me An Educator: Illich’s Flawed Classics

Posted on February 10, 2015 by John Connell

This is the second in an occasional series of posts highlighting some of the books that led me into education or that have greatly influenced me as an educator ...

Culture/Internet/People/Personal/Reading/Technology/Web/Writing

The Persistent Fetish: the printed book in the digital age

Posted on September 7, 2014 by John Connell

The book, as we have known and loved it for half a millennium and more, is an object of veneration for many. I am undeniably a bibliophile, and while it is most...

Learning/People/Reading/Research/Society

Reading in the Mobile Era

Posted on August 22, 2014 by John Connell

I have been reading through the findings of a great report published earlier this year by UNESCO: Reading in the Mobile Era. I am working on a longer post on mo...