Meet Libby, an app that lets you borrow and read from your local libraries in three simple steps: 1. Fish out your library card. 2. Open the Libby app. 3. Find your local library and/or browse more than 30,000 libraries in 40+ countries. Image Via Google Play This app is a pleasure to use and is available on iOS and Android. Apart from letting you browse, download and stream ebooks, audiobooks and more, it also has a convenient note-taking amenity so that you can save and organize the information you obtain. This makes it perfect for students and teachers. Libby works in conjunction with …
Reading is kind of like sex – mentally we may want to do it nonstop, but physically we can get burned out and it stops being enjoyable for the rest of the day. Maybe your mind is exhausted and you haven’t read a book in a few hours, or nights, maybe even WEEKS! Perhaps you’ve lost your reading mo-jo. You’re lacking in focus, you cant stay awake to read before bed, or maybe you just feel you don’t have the time anymore. Well, here are ten quotes to get you out of this dry, paperless spell. Gif Via You’reKillingUs.com 1. …
Sporcle, the leading provider of trivia entertainment on the web and home to over one million quizzes on every topic imaginable. People use Sporcle for a variety of reasons including mental stimulation, revision, and, most often, procrastination. You may have taken the quiz in which you name the world’s countries and capital cities against the clock, or maybe the Pokémon character quiz tickled your fancy, but fear not bookworms, now you have over a thousand Shakespeare quizzes to take your mind off things. Image Via Sporcle.com Typing “Shakespeare” into Sporcle’s search engine gathers you over 1,400 quizzes. A little more on the silly side …
Libraries are mysterious places. They are sites in which the past gets stacked on the present. They are home to ancient and obscure books that fill shelves from floor to ceiling, which eventually form into a collection of human history. Sometimes stories do not get left in the past, and instead continue to influence life today. The same can be said for dead people who refuse to be dead. Some of these people have chosen to set up ghost camp inside libraries, much to the dismay of people who are trying to work or read there, ghost-free. Image Via Patch Paranormal researchers on the other hand, have rushed …
Have you ever found yourself struggling in the depths of the deep end, unsure of how much longer you can hold your breath? Then, out of nowhere, someone jumps into the deep end with you, mouths some words at you through bubbles, and in an instant you remember how to swim back up to the surface. You may have experienced this feeling while still at school. Homework stack growing, teachers piling on pressure, tests being forgotten, and no time for you to be a teenager. Sometimes all we need is a few words of advice. Here are eleven quotes from authors you’ll wish …
