The nationally syndicated radio host’s first memoir, Where Do I Begin?, landed on the New York Times Best Seller list.
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Author: OverDrive Staff
What we need to instill in our male students is that reading is an important hobby that must become a habit. Why? If they want to succeed in anything, they must read.
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I would often observe everyone trying to navigate the nonfiction section or avoid it completely. We had lessons on the Dewey Decimal System and our nonfiction shelves were labeled, but students and staff were still not engaging.
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Editorial: Everyone loves print books. How can ebooks get more love?
As we approach 2020, I expected ebooks to be a much bigger part of book publishing revenue.
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When Oprah launched her “Oprah’s Book Club” in 1996, it was the first of its kind. Soon, “The Oprah Effect” became a well-known phenomenon within the literary world. But are the titles in contemporary celebrity book clubs seeing the same level of discoverability?
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After observing so many adults not checking out books and stating that they do not read, I chose to do some research, not simply to find out why adults aren’t reading, but to find out why they should be reading.
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Point of View: Sari Feldman, Former President, American Library Association
OverDrive’s Steve Potash speaks with former American Library Association president Sari Feldman, who recently retired following an illustrious tenure as executive director of Northeast Ohio’s Cuyahoga County Public Library.
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The host of the wildly popular TV show “Adam Ruins Everything” discusses how he uses both physical and digital content available from his local library to help his never-ending quest for knowledge.
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For the past two-and-half years, I have noticed a reading trend with my young adult students. My teen readers can’t get enough of what I call tough topic books. I categorize these as tough topic reads because they are books about overcoming adversity and exploring topics that are controversial.
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Like so many people today, I love to cook, and I love to read. About 10 years ago, I started noticing that cookbooks were no longer just collections of recipes. There were stories interwoven with the recipes.
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