A bit, but oh well
Tom Wayne of Prospero's Books started a storm by creating a bonfire of second hand books because he didn't have place to store them and other thrift shops and libraries could not take them in since they were also full.
Wayne said he has seen fewer customers in recent years as people more often get their information from television or the Internet. He pointed to a 2002 study by the National Endowment for the Arts, that found that less than half of adult respondents reported reading for pleasure, down from almost 57 percent in 1982.
Sorted Books project looks interesting, at least the pictures are sure to draw a chuckle.
The Sorted Books project began in 1993 years ago and is ongoing. The project has taken place in many different places over the years, ranging form private homes to specialized public book collections. The process is the same in every case: culling through a collection of books, pulling particular titles, and eventually grouping the books into clusters so that the titles can be read in sequence, from top to bottom.
Want to know what some of the authors like Dave Eggers, Ursula K. Le Guin and Nicole Krauss have been reading? Now you can!
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