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So if you know a foreign language, it's also fun to read your favorite books in two languages.
Books have given me a magic portal to connect with people of the past and the present.
So because of books, I'm here today, happy, living again with a purpose and a clarity, most of the time.
So may books be always with you.
Yet this is the kind of movie that I wanted to make ever since I was a kid, really, back when I was reading some comic books and dreaming about what the future might be.
They were books telling a science fiction story through images and text, and most of the actors who are now starring in the movie adaptation, they were already involved in these books portraying characters into a sort of experimental, theatrical, simplistic way.
He was the one who believed in me and encouraged me to do an adaptation of my books into a film, and to write, direct, and produce the film myself.
Well, I said, you know what, instead of mimicking his style, I might as well call the real guy and ask him, and I sent him my books, and he answered that he was interested in working on the film with me because he could be a big fish in a small aquarium.
Now, we do reject, many, many, many cartoons, so many that there are many books called "The Rejection Collection." "The Rejection Collection" is not quite New Yorker kind of humor.
He had this shoebox that he carried with him everywhere containing nine comic books, two G.I. Joes painted to look like Spider-Man and five Gobots.
Shaken, I left my books on the stairs and hurried home, and there it was again.
When I was at school, the books were transcribed by transcribers, voluntary people who punched one dot at a time so I'd have volumes to read, and that had been going on, mainly by women, since the late 19th century in this country, but it was the only way I could read.
In 1974, the great Ray Kurzweil, the American inventor, worked on building a machine that would scan books and read them out in synthetic speech.
Of course, talking books for the blind predated all this technology.
After all, the long-playing record was developed in the early 1930s, and now we put talking books on CDs using the digital access system known as DAISY.
For example, Australia, like about one third of the world's countries, has copyright exceptions which allow books to be brailled or read for we blind persons.
But those books can't travel across borders.
For example, in Spain, there are a 100,000 accessible books in Spanish.
But it's not legal to transport the books from Spain to Latin America.
There are hundreds of thousands of accessible books in the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia, etc., but they can't be transported to the 60 countries in our world where English is the first and the second language.
Well, because we can't transport books across borders, there had to be separate versions read in all the different English-speaking countries: Britain, United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand all had to have separate readings of Harry Potter.
It's something that a group of countries and the World Blind Union are advocating, a cross-border treaty so that if books are available under a copyright exception and the other country has a copyright exception, we can transport those books across borders and give life to people, particularly in developing countries, blind people who don't have the books to read.
So, I hopefully am writing, you know, books that are good for children and for adults.
And the books are really journals of my life.
Some economists have proposed a market solution: Offer cash incentives to kids for getting good grades or high test scores or for reading books.
The two dollars for each book did lead those kids to read more books.
It also led them to read shorter books.
We might have to tear those books up and start to look at other options and be open-minded to seek the truth.
I mean, these are books that Virginia Woolf said were tough as cat gut.
In the first volume, Swann's Way, the series of books, Swann, one of the main characters, is thinking very fondly of his mistress and how great she is in bed, and suddenly, in the course of a few sentences, and these are Proustian sentences, so they're long as rivers, but in the course of a few sentences, he suddenly recoils and he realizes, "Hang on, everything I love about this woman, somebody else would love about this woman.
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