John Miedema

Early Announcement: Slow Reading, the Book

22 June 2008 9 Comments

I am very pleased to announce that Litwin Books will be publishing a book I am writing, Slow Reading. The book is a significant expansion of the material I researched and presented at the Western Research Forum last March, and posted as a series here. The book goes deeper into the research, includes new material, and discusses emerging concepts in technology and culture. The expected release is Winter 2008/09. See the forthcoming release notice at Litwin Books.

9 Comments »

Dave said:

Great news, John! I’ll be looking forward to that.

# 22 June 2008 at 7:41 pm

Mark said:

Congrats, John! Crazy me, but I’m more interested to read about it in a long, sustained format than in blog posts. Oh, silly me, people don’t do that anymore though.

# 22 June 2008 at 9:15 pm

Peter said:

All right!!! Congratulations! I can’t wait to get my hands on it.

# 22 June 2008 at 11:04 pm

Jim Murdoch said:

Glad to hear that. Computers are good for so many things but there are some things that really need to be in hard copy.

# 23 June 2008 at 4:01 am

John said:

Dave, Mark, Peter, Jim — no doubt our conversations at our various blogs have enriched my thinking for this book. Many thanks.

# 23 June 2008 at 11:39 am

Clara said:

Congrats John…it must be a great feeling!!!!
I have sent you an email and a answer to your question. Please check your email and let me know your plans
All my best
Clara from sweden

# 23 June 2008 at 1:27 pm

John said:

Thanks Clara!

# 24 June 2008 at 7:37 am

Jason Hammond said:

Congrats! I’m proud to say that I may have played some (very) small role in making this happen. Now, I need to come up with my own area of library specialization as per the Wendy Newman list on my blog that inspired you to pursue the idea of slow reading!

Can’t wait to read it – put me down for an autographed copy please!

# 24 June 2008 at 9:40 pm

John said:

Jason is a FIMS alumnus, gone on to librarianship in Saskatchewan. He mentioned Newman’s view that a library student should try to specialize in an area. At that point, I decided to specialize my library writing in the area of slow reading. I have since diversified my writing here, but the idea definitely has merit.

I still think you should write, “Jason’s Unofficial Guide to Library School”, in the spirit of Will Ferguson’s “I Was a Teenage Katimavictim”. You’ve got all the material.

# 25 June 2008 at 4:07 am