Book Dock Manifesto

We love good books. We believe in quieting the noise and listening to the stories; in traveling far and wide between paper pages. We believe in touching the words, scribbling in the margins, and dogging the ears. We enjoy surrounding ourselves with books long finished and books not yet read; in revisiting our younger selves each time we pull old favorites off the shelves.

We love having five year olds crayon their names in big letters on the flyleaf. We delight in becoming someone else for four hundred pages. We need to turn off the screens and unplug the networks once in a while.

We believe in meeting the author, reading the footnotes, looking up the words in the dictionary, and checking the references. We secure our futures by holding our children on our laps and turning the pages together.

We delight in standing shoulder to shoulder in comfortable silence with our fellow citizens before a good shelf of books, and in talking face to face with friends and strangers in the aisles of a neighborhood bookstore.

We believe that together, readers, writers, books and bookstores can work magic. If you agree, please join us"

Save the bookstore; save the world; buy a book.