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People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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Llama Llama Mother's Day Cards
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May's Second Saturday WalkAround is coming up! There will be so many fun things to do, but be sure to hit up Inklings.
 
There will be a station set up for kids to make their own Llama Llama-themed Mother's Day cards. This will last as long as the supplies do, so please come quickly! The fun starts at 11:00am.
 
E-books might harm your memory!
Confused about the pros and cons of reading your books in screen format? Here is an interesting study we might consider. In the
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 meantime, I'm hanging in to my paper versions.
 
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The Justice Department's anti-trust lawsuit against Apple Inc. and major publishers last week shows that influential companies believe we're well on the way to a future of e-reading. It's concerning, then, that some studies have shown that e-books might harm memory. According to Maia Szalavitz in Time magazine, studies have shown that people are less able to recall information they read in e-books or on computer screens compared with traditional text on a printed page (or the "dead-tree format," as print's detractors call it). The problem seems to be with lack of context. Reading is abstract, and physical context such as spatial location is important. A formula in a textbook is on the left or right page, or at the edge of the margin, or on the top or bottom of a page. It occurs on a page, say, two-thirds of the way through the book, which can be known subconsciously as one flips through the pages.
 
Computer screens and e-books, by contrast, give the reader much fewer spatial triggers to recall information. For those of you who regularly print out your copy of the Daily Advantage; place it in an acid-free cellophane wrap; and secure it in your embossed, gold-lilted Daily Advantage binder, you should have no problems. The smaller the screen, the harder it is to remember stuff--a fairly distressing result given how much of our information is beginning to come from squinting at smartphones. Szalavitz points to a study by Jakob Nielsen of the Nielsen Norman Group that showed that, as the size of screens shrank, so did readers' ability to recall information (I imagine corporate IT managers who read this study are now confiscating
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 Blackberrys and scrambling to outfit their employees with 55-inch, 1080p computer screens so they'll never forget anything). Reading on a mobile phone led to the worst reading information recall because there's almost no room for any physical cues on the page. The only physical context comes from someone walking into a wall while they're too busy texting. I'm sure other studies have shown that walking into walls is bad for reading comprehension.
 
A generation raised on digital media will probably have a much easier time comprehending and remembering it and will perhaps learn to substitute different contextual cues for the physical ones relied on when reading books in print. During the transition from papyrus scrolls to bound books, readers probably had similar reactions. "Those kids today with their newfangled pages. Back in my day, the truth unfurled in an unbroken continuity. Who can remember anything when you're interrupted by all this page- turning nonsense?"
 
Jeremy Ryan, Social Media Managing Editor
 
World Book Night
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World Book Night is ALMOST here!

World Book Night is a celebration of reading and books which will see tens of thousands of people share books with others in their communities across America to spread the joy and love of reading on April 23. 

This is the first year the U.S. is participating in World Book Night, and the second year for the U.K. There were 30 titles chosen, and each of the authors generously waved rights to make these special, free, World-Book-Night-edition books happen. Learn more here .

*exciting news* 

Inklings still has room for TWO more givers. If you would like to hand out free books to light/non-readers, and you have read either A Prayer for Owen Meany or I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, please call Susan at 965.5830.

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The Character Word of the Month for May is "Courtesy." Courtesy is being polite and having good manners. It is being considerate of others. It is a way of speaking and acting with people which gives them a feeling of being valued and respected.  

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