Are you bookless?

Most people do not have to look far to find something to read. Waiting rooms of all types are almost always fully stocked with a wide variety of popular magazines. I wonder how often people find themselves without a book to read. Perhaps they are simply waiting for a serendipitous encounter to bring a new title their way, which often happens.

Booklessness seems to place everyone at an equal level. Avid readers and occasional readers now share a common dilemma of being without reading material. Of course, social networking sites, like Goodreads, help minimize the amount of time one remains bookless, by providing a method for documenting future reads. So are online sources the end of traditional readers' advisory? Not at all.

Before coming into the public library realm, readers' advisory was not commonplace to me in the academic/research library realm. This blog is my continuing journey in readers' advisory with a focus on the resources/topics I find helpful as expand my knowledge of this area.