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What Books Mean To Readers
To a Librarian the book The second type of books were about explorers who
certainly revolves round the first went into jungles of Amazon, North Pole, and South
three laws out of the Five Laws Pole. I was fascinated by their spirit of adventure and
of Library Science proposed courage to face all odds. I then read a number of books
and conceived by Dr. S.R. about voyages and was always attracted to ships and
Ranganathan, the father of geography. My eyes were opened to the vast world that
Library Science. They are - lies outside my little neighborhood and the city.
Mrs. Neeti Karanjkar In a way books were helping me touch the deeper core

•First Law: Books Are for Use of being human and also the outer horizons of the vast
•Second Law: Every Reader His / Her Book world at the same time."
•Third Law: Every Book Its Reader Dr. A P Bhupatkar, Former - Director, IMDR
"When I read books, I listen to the voices of those who
Books play a very important role in everyone’s life,
have written them. But reading a book from first to the
especially in the case of students. They are considered
as a “store house of information”, which increase our last page is a demanding job. You have to read words
that are connected in a sentence and one sentence is
knowledge. They tone up our intellectual taste and
broaden our outlook. Books are stress busters. They connected with the next and you have to make a
help us improve vocabulary, concentration power, meaning of all sentences together in a paragraph. This
process continues in all pages. When I read books with
make our thinking skills stronger, at the same time they
increase self-confidence, boost memory and such patience, then I have a rare satisfaction of living a
imagination power. Reading books enhances language book.
skills. One who reads is deemed well-read and turns out Reading habit gives you additional lives if you care for
to be a good orator. Good books are ‘friends, books and for those who wrote them."
philosophers and guides’. They inspire and instill good Dr. S.P. Kandalgaonkar, Former - Director IMDR
qualities in the reader. They are the veritable treasure of "Most people today hold the view that reading books is
every reader. unnecessary because everything is available online.
Reading books may not be as popular now because of This is because of a misunderstanding of what books
technology, but there are still many teenagers that prefer are, and do.
reading. The love of reading is still alive in every age Books are not only about imparting information or
group, including teenagers. Reading has been one of the about becoming knowledgeable. They are about
longest forms of entertainment and is still ubiquitous seeding new ideas, about sitting back, thinking, and
today. reflecting; it's primarily about ideas, insights, and new
According to a well-known writer, Stephen King, directions, which is why the busiest and the most
“Books are a uniquely portable magic” which can bring powerful people in the world like Warren Buffet and
joy to our life. Bill Gates, among others, read voraciously, every day. "
Mark Zuckerberg says - “Books allow you to fully Prof Ajay Nagre, Former - Director, IMDR
explore a topic and immerse yourself in a deeper way "My connection with books started with my father
than most media today.” buying me a ‘Children’s Encyclopedia’ when I was

Let’s see what our avid readers have a say on BOOKS about 5 years old and has continued since then. I can say
"As a child, I remember two kinds of books that I used to with some ‘ambivalence’ I have lived my life in books
like Sane Guruji, a Gandhian and a freedom fighter, rather than live life. "
wrote books for children, titled JmoS> Jmoï>r or Sweet Tales. I Prof. Atul Sapre, Former - Faculty and Director,
used to get so engrossed in them and moved by the IMDR
pathos in them that I could never realize that tears were "Books have made me realise that every coin has 3
rolling down my cheeks and yet I would read. Then my sides. And now I influence the books I read by rejecting
mother or sister would ask me to put that book away. those which don’t fit my awakening! "
Those stories spoke of how people bore their suffering Dr. Gopal Iyengar, Former - Faculty IMDR
and yet had the strength to help each other.

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