Bibliobibuli

The Internet worries me for other reasons. I have always been a reader, so the Internet has enhanced my reading, not lessened it. But in a...

We live in a world now that’s so overawed by the performance of the computer or a motor car but not the language that can be used to sing pa...

Just the presence of books in the home boosts your child's chances of success in education, a major study by Nevada University [ via ] ...

This is certainly a big step in the right direction .  As World Book and Copyright Day kicks off, The Star reports that 1,000 secondary sch...

While we debate who should be "reading ambassadors" to stir interest in reading in Malaysia, an article in The Jakarta Globe tell...

Yeoh and Dr Sheikh Muszaphar are not selling cars or soft drinks – we need more than just a pretty face to promote reading. We need reading ...

Jacqueline Pereira in Starmag today questions the suitability of the "pretty ‘ambassadors’" actress Datuk Michelle Yeoh and sp...

Is it too much hassle to go to your local public library? Then let your library books come to you. This from the New Sunday Times today ...

Yesterday was World Book Day in the UK.  (The rest of us celebrate on April 23rd.)  Most of the activities were aimed at school children.  ...

*Phew* Just a few days after Utusan Malaysia was making dire pronouncements about the state of reading in Malaysia, and Information, Communi...

Utusan Malaysia this week laments the lack of a Malaysian reading culture. Hardly anyone's reading on the LRT (above) despite the launc...

Some good news from The Star this morning : The National Library of Malaysia is planning to expand its 1Malaysia Reading Campaign by soon s...

Bookseller Abby Wong writes an interesting piece in today's Starmag about how Malaysians : ... are reading more and better books but ar...

While I'm always moaning about reading campaigns in Malaysia never really taking off in any way that neither I nor the readers of this ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Christopher Hedges gives us some truly staggering statistics about how newspaper readership is declining i...

There's so much emphasis on literacy these days that I think people have forgotten or overlooked the joy of reading, ie, the simple plea...

Something like the Readers Choice Awards helps to raise public awareness, and this surely encourages writers to get their work published .....

This from Bernama : T he Book City, which the government plans to set up by end of this year, will provide an avenue for publishers and wri...

I'm willing to admit this to you, my dear reader. I am such a voracious consumer of books that I used to steal in order to satisfy my n...

The BBC reports on a great new initiative to encourage reading in London . Stalls outside five London tube stations hand out free books t...