Serious Readers

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Welcome to the home of smart ideas for serious readers. You’ll find purpose built reading lights that allow you to read for longer and in more comfort. Our Easy Book Clips free up both your hands when cooking or working at your computer. Or why not treat yourself to a magnifier or some reading glasses.

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Friends of the Earth

www.foe.co.uk

www.foe.co.uk

Friends of the Earth inspires solutions to environmental problems which make life better for people.

Friends of the Earth supports MyBookYourBook.co.uk as being environmentally friendly.


Book Aid International

www.bookaid.org

OPENING UP THE WORLD THROUGH BOOKS

If education is the road out of poverty, books are the wheels needed for the journey.
Richard Crabbe, Chairman, African Publishers Network, 1997-2002

www.bookaid.org


University of the Third Age

www.u3a.org.uk

The Third Age Trust

U3A groups around the United Kingdom are members of the Third Age Trust. Its main purpose is to encourage lifelong learning for those no longer in full time gainful employment.

www.u3a.org.uk


Civil Service Retirement Fellowship

www.csrf.org.uk

The Civil Service Retirement Fellowship (CSRF) is a voluntary organisation concerned for the welfare of retired civil servants. Conceived in 1964, the CSRF was registered as a UK charity on 9 April 1968.

www.csrf.org.uk


Workers Education Association

www.wea.org.uk

The UK's largest voluntary provider of adult learning

The WEA is a 21st Century, democratic, voluntary adult education movement, committed to widening participation and to enabling people to realise their full potential through learning.

www.wea.org.uk


National Literacy Trust

www.literacytrust.org.uk

Building a literate nation

The National Literacy Trust, founded in 1993, is an independent charity dedicated to building a literate nation. The importance of literacy has long been recognised: it underpins all educational achievement and is central to economic advance; it helps develop human potential and raises self-esteem. We are the only organisation concerned with raising literacy standards for all age groups throughout the UK.

www.literacytrust.org.uk




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Online library's novel attraction
for bookworms

news.telegraph.co.uk

The "doors" of Britain's first known online lending library are to open for business next week, bringing reassurance for literary luddites who fear the march of technology could overcome the manuscript.

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Online library banks on urge to lend

books.guardian.co.uk

Bookworms are being invited to join what is described as the world's first online cooperative
library, My Book Your Book, which was launched last night.

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Online librarian is 'overwhelmed'

news.bbc.co.uk

The founder of an online book-sharing library says the interest in his scheme has been "beyond his wildest dreams".

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