tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7424038.post8373522336132817775..comments2023-11-16T18:28:45.786+08:00Comments on Rambling Librarian :: Incidental Thoughts of a Singapore Liblogarian: Reading, Libraries and LibrariansUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7424038.post-27301340196896324782009-01-15T17:45:00.000+08:002009-01-15T17:45:00.000+08:00Very nicely put, Tinkertailor!Very nicely put, Tinkertailor!Ivan Chewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02727226573817276108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7424038.post-19879133087816924512009-01-15T09:50:00.000+08:002009-01-15T09:50:00.000+08:00agree that justyn's "anti-social" comment is too s...agree that justyn's "anti-social" comment is too strong. i would prefer "non-social".<BR/><BR/>but bringing this back to libraries - many libraries have reading rooms or areas, and you could even say that a library is really a big reading room. although library patrons don't socialize much there, the reading room does make reading a kind of social experience. there's no verbal socializing, but there's still this shared social presence of other readers, a belonging to a larger group of readers, punctuated by random eye contacts, that makes reading in a reading room a different experience than say reading alone at a cafe...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com