Books to Bytes

You almost never hear a Millennial say “you’re welcome.” At least not when someone thanks them. It just isn’t done. Not because Millenials are ingrates lacking all manners, but because the polite response is “No problem.” Millennials only use “you’re welcome” sarcastically when they haven’t been thanked or when something has been taken from/done to them without their consent. It’s a phrase that’s used to point out someone else’s rudeness. A Millenial would typically be fairly uncomfortable saying “you’re welcome” as an acknowledgement of genuine thanks because the phrase is only ever used disengenuously.

Baby Boomers, however, get really miffed if someone says “no problem” in response to being thanked. From their perspective, saying “no problem” means that whatever they’re thanking someone for was in fact a problem, but the other person did it anyway as a personal favor. To them “You’re welcome” is the standard polite response.

‘No problem’, coming from a millenials mouth, within the context of helping someone – whether it be holding a door open/picking up something someone may have dropped/ect. – and, naturally, being thanked for it, implies that the kind gesture was indeed, not a problem, that it was just the thing to do, that they were happy to help and that no thanks was really necessary.

The latest, coolest library is in a concrete building on the beach in China

The latest, coolest, looking library comes to us from the white sandy beach of Nandaihe, China.

Facing the East China Sea the Seaside Library brings all the amenities of a contemporary library right to the waters edge.

Constructed by Vector Architects the library features a tiered reading room that occupies the center of the two-story library while a meditation space, activity room, and bar occupy the perimeter.

That sounds like the perfect trifecta, a beautiful place on the beach to read – meditate – drink

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.

A Reader’s Manifesto

A Spanish translation of this comic appears the Colombian newspaper El Espectador. Thanks to editor Daniel Jimenez Quiroz!

Still Harmony: The Work of Jacqueline Rush Lee

Jacqueline Rush Lee has been creating bookworks for over 15 years. Her work has been and remains a staple in most anthologies that deal with contemporary bookworks.

In 1998 Rush devised an experimental process where books and periodicals were fired in controlled kiln environments and transformed into what Rush calls “fossilized” books where “the books were no longer recognizable in their usual context, but transformed into poetic remnants of their former selves–ephemeral and ghost-like forms suggesting internal landscapes and a trajectory of time, transformation and memory…”

These “poetic remnants” emit a still harmony that retains the power of the book while transforming them into spectacular works of art.

Happy Miniature Monday!

Here are multiple mini’s from Borrower’s Press.  We’ve featured some of their books before, but I couldn’t resist another post—they are so adorable and all so different!  For a list of titles and descriptions of these books and more from Borrower’s, click here.  

Multiple titles and authors. Borrower’s Press.  The Charlotte Smith Miniature Collection