Christmas eve is the evening for the hard packages under the tree

$ A BOKÅR is gone, and yet do not have the E-book competed out the physical book with binders and paper. The book as at the end of the year was one of the biggest bestsellers in 2018, is more or less impossible to imagine that the E-book. Maja Lunde and Lisa Aisatos "Snøsøsteren" is a classic picture book, a kind of book that appeals to children's imagination and that will undoubtedly stick in my memory as a happy memory of the kids who have managed to read it.

christmas EVE IS THE large bokdagen in the thousands of homes. The slogan "Books are the best christmas gift" still has a strong timbre. There are few industries where one is as dependent on the christmas sales as the book trade to stay clear of bunnlinja. And then, we are talking mostly about paper books. Books which in addition to having a more or less interesting content also has a design and a thought-out typography, maybe illustrations, which gives them a plussverdi.

AFFECTION for the book is located behind Burkhardt Spinnens "Book - a tribute". Show more

release still books that are directly dependent on being in paper format. Of the releases can be mentioned Tor Åge Bringsværds "Vov", where he is with tail-wagging love writing about dogs, David Foenkinos and Charlotte salomon's beautiful and devastating novel "Charlotte" or Atle Nilsen's enjoyable, "The big book about trains", full of steamy curiosities. Also within the genre of "Books about books", well-known at any antikvarbokhandler, there are some newcomers that are well worth noting.

THE GERMAN author Burkhard Spin (62) has written "the Book – A tribute" (Pax), translated by Per Qvale. An adornment for every hjemmebibliotek. The book has a red cover with white lettering and is beautifully illustrated by Line Swollen. "From the time I learned to read, there are books, not data, which has opened the world for me. Books have been my companions, my roommates, my helpers, my friends, and they are there to this day," writes Spin. In 42, the small essay he goes through the physical book out from all sorts of angles; and with such unexpected chapters as "The lost book", "The stolen book" and "Horses and books."

BOOKSTORES BLUES: Witty about the industry from Scotland. Show more

SPINNENS BOOK is pervading by a deep love for the book as a phenomenon of tradition and culture. The scottish author Shaun Bythell has a different starting point. In the autobiographical novel "A bokhandlers diary" (Gursli Berg), he tells how his life changed after he bought a blåfrossent and crowded city in the scottish town of Wigtown. The book follows a year in the store's business. A most enjoyable description of the customers, purchasing, sales and surr, in a relentless pursuit of the strangest books. Bythell describes the tension many of us feel when we are faced with a mixed assortiment of used books, for example, at a flea market: "When I go to a house to buy books, I have an expectation that is not similar to any other. It's like throwing out a yarn without knowing what you get when you pull it in."

TONE SELBOE has written an articulate book about their adventure in lesningens universe. Show more

NO that other book lovers should miss litteraturprofessor Tone Selboes book "Leselyst – About books, life and literature" (Gyldendal). Selboe go on a quiet and popular way into lesningens mysteries, what it is that causes us to be readers and what dividends we can expect. "We can only live one life, but the reading gives us the opportunity to participate in many more," she writes, and brings the stunning examples and thought-provoking quotes from the literature universe. A book to have lying on your bedside table. It invites a slow reading.

READING Selboes reflections, one can not imagine other than that it is the physical books she has between your fingers. She also writes about how books by their past presence, such as a subject and part of a collection, constitutes a "minnemagasin", which emphasizes the value of reading and books can have in a human life.

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