{"id":946,"date":"2016-08-07T10:00:03","date_gmt":"2016-08-07T10:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paddyeger.com\/educatingamerica\/blog\/?p=946"},"modified":"2016-08-07T10:00:03","modified_gmt":"2016-08-07T10:00:03","slug":"reading-through-shared-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/2016\/08\/07\/reading-through-shared-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading through Shared Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saved an article from last spring by Jamie Littlefield entitled, <em>Promote Reading: Share Books. <\/em>Here are a few of her suggestions that bear repeating.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The bad news:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>21,000,000 Americans can&#8217;t read&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>45,000,000 Americans are marginally illiterate&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Fewer than 1\/2 of Americans read literature&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In some libraries, the copyright date on non fiction books is 1982&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The good news:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kids who read at a young age are less likely to drop out of school&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Literary readers are 2 1\/2 times more likely to attend cultural events&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jamie Littlefield&#8217;s suggestions:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Be an example<\/strong> by reading, sharing book ideas and visiting the library.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Start a lending library<\/strong> by allowing people to borrow your books. Create a readily available space, fill a box with books and you&#8217;re in busness. Remember you&#8217;ll need to devise a check-out card, a sign-in sheet, etc where they sign their name and phone number so you can track the books out on loan.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Give books as gifts.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Donate books to schools, classrooms and homeless shelters.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Other ideas: Checkout the following sites<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\">LibraryThing.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paperbackbookswap.com\">PaperBackBookSwap.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.frugalreader.com\">FrugalReader.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookcrossing.com\">BookCrossing.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Whether you go a step further and build a &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlelibraries.com\">little library&#8217;<\/a> or try any of these ideas, I hope you think about how important reading is to\/for all of us. Starting with reading to babies and onto reading with the elderly and everyone in between,<strong> reading matters<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saved an article from last spring by Jamie Littlefield entitled, Promote Reading: Share Books. Here are a few of her suggestions that bear repeating. The bad news: 21,000,000 Americans can&#8217;t read&#8230; 45,000,000 Americans are marginally illiterate&#8230; Fewer than 1\/2 of Americans read literature&#8230; In some libraries, the copyright date on non fiction books is\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/2016\/08\/07\/reading-through-shared-books\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[245,246,247],"class_list":["post-946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading","tag-book-sharing-projects","tag-literacy","tag-shared-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}