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• Television, the book, and the classroom : a seminar (The Library, 1978), by John Young Cole, Library of Congress. Center for the Book, and United States Office of Education (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reading in America 1978 : selected findings of the Book Industry Study Group's 1978 study of American book-reading and book-buying habits and discussions of those findings at the Library of Congress on October 25 and 26, 1978 (Library of Congress :, 1979), by Carol S. Gold, John Young Cole, and Book Industry Study Group (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report on Conference on Rural Reading, September 24-26, 1951, Washington, D.C. (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, 1952), by D.C.) Conference on Rural Reading (1951 : Washington and United States Department of Agriculture (page images at HathiTrust)

• Reading in America 1978 : selected findings of the Book Industry Study Group's 1978 study of American book-reading and book-buying habits and discussions of those findings at the Library of Congress on October 25 and 26, 1978 (Library of Congress :, 1979), by Carol S. Gold, John Young Cole, and Book Industry Study Group (page images at HathiTrust)

• Getting the books out : papers of the Chicago Conference on the Book in 19th-century America (Center for the Book, Library of Congress :, 1987), by Chicago Conference on the Book in 19th-century America (1985), Michael R. Hackenberg, and Library of Congress. Center for the Book (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• To Read or Not To Read: A Question of National Consequence (2007), by National Endowment for the Arts (PDF at nea.gov)
• The Republic of Letters: Librarian of Congress Daniel J. Boorstin on Books, Reading, and Libraries, 1975-1987 (Washington: Library of Congress, 1989), by Daniel J. Boorstin, ed. by John Young Cole (HTML at loc.gov)
• The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture From Consumerism to Control (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009), by Theodore G. Striphas (zipped PDF with commentary at thelateageofprint.org)
• The Delicious Vice: Pipe Dreams and Fond Adventures of an Habitual Novel-Reader Among Some Great Books and Their People (second edition; Chicago: The Prairieland Publishing Co., 1918), by Young Ewing Allison (Gutenberg text)
• The Guide to Reading, ed. by Lyman Abbott and Asa Don Dickinson (Gutenberg text)
• A Librarian's Open Shelf: Essays on Various Subjects (1920), by Arthur E. Bostwick (Gutenberg text)
• The Making of an American's Library (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1915), by Arthur E. Bostwick
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1916), by Theodore Roosevelt
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • HTML at Bartleby
• Books in our future : a report to the Congress from the Librarian of Congress. (Joint Committee on the Library, Congress of the U.S., 1984), by Library of Congress and United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• The State of the book world, 1980 : three talks (Library of Congress, 1981), by Ernest L. Boyer, Dan Mabry Lacy, Alfred Kazin, and Center for the Book (page images at HathiTrust)
• Next to mother's milk-- : an Engelhard lecture on the book (Library of Congress, 1987), by Lawrence Clark Powell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Books for college men and women (George Wahr, 1926), by University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism (page images at HathiTrust)
• U.S. international book programs, 1981 (Library of Congress, 1982), by John Young Cole (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Center for the Book in the Library of Congress. (The Center, 1984), by Center for the Book (page images at HathiTrust)
• Home education by means of reading courses and the cooperation of state and national agencies (G.P.O., 1922), by United States Bureau of Education and Ellen C. Lombard (page images at HathiTrust)
• On "culture" and "a liberal education" with lists of books which can aid in acquiring them (The Arnold company, 1922), by Jesse Lee Bennett (page images at HathiTrust)
• "Why read" : an address delivered before the Insurance Society of New York. (s.n., 1919), by William Herbert Stevens (page images at HathiTrust)
• Authorization of use of Capitol grounds for National Book Festival : report (to accompany H. Con. Res. 348) (including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office). (U.S. G.P.O., 2002), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure (page images at HathiTrust)
• Growth in reading and how children spend their time outside of school (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ;, 1986), by Richard C. Anderson, Linda Fielding, Paul T. Wilson, National Institute of Education (U.S.), Beranek Bolt, and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Center for the Study of Reading (page images at HathiTrust)
• Words of wisdom from the Literary Symposium : quotes from participants and attendees. (U.S. Dept. of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, 1988), by Literacy Symposium (1988 : Washington D. C.), Charles Potter, and United States. Office of Educational Research and Improvement (page images at HathiTrust)
• The pleasures of a book-worm. (G.J. Coombes, 1887), by J. Rogers Rees (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Book-lover: A Guide to the Best Reading, by James Baldwin (Gutenberg ebook)

• The reading promotion partners of the Library of Congress : a directory (The Center for the Book, The Library of Congress, 1995), by Michael Thompson and Center for the Book (page images at HathiTrust)

• Books in our future : perspectives and proposals (Library of Congress :, 1987), by John Young Cole and Library of Congress. Center for the Book (page images at HathiTrust)

• Reading at Risk: A Survey of Literary Reading in America (Washington: National Endowment for the Arts, 2004), by Tom Bradshaw and Bonnie Nichols (PDF at nea.gov)
• Survey of literary reading in America : executive summary. (National Endowment for the Arts, 2004), by National Endowment for the Arts (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reading at risk : a survey of literary reading in America (National Endowment for the Arts, 2004), by Tom Bradshaw (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Survey of lifetime readers (Information Analysis Systems, 1990), by Alicia J. Welch, Library of Congress. Center for the Book, Information analysis Systems, and Book-of-the-Month Club (page images at HathiTrust)

• Frank Reade, Jr., with his new steam horse in the great American desert: or, The sandy trail of death, by Luis Senarens (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Abandoned Country; or, Frank Reade, Jr., Exploring a New Continent., by Luis Senarens (Gutenberg ebook)
• From Zone to Zone: Or, The Wonderful Trip of Frank Reade, Jr., with His Latest Air-Ship, by Luis Senarens (Gutenberg ebook)
• Lost in the Atlantic Valley; Or, Frank Reade, Jr., and His Wonder, the "Dart", by Luis Senarens (Gutenberg ebook)
• Frank Reade, Jr.'s Search for the Silver Whale: Or, Under the Ocean in the Electric "Dolphin", by Luis Senarens (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Transient Lake; or, Frank Reade, Jr.'s Adventures in a Mysterious Country, by Luis Senarens (Gutenberg ebook)
• Frank Reade, Jr., Fighting the Terror of the Coast, by Luis Senarens (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Galleon's Gold; or, Frank Reade, Jr.'s Deep Sea Search., by Luis Senarens (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Sunken Isthmus; or, Frank Reade, Jr., in the Yucatan Channel., by Luis Senarens (Gutenberg ebook)
• Frank Reade Jr. and His Engine of the Clouds: Or, Chased Around the World in the Sky, by Luis Senarens (Gutenberg ebook)
• Frank Reade, Jr., and His Electric Ice Ship; or, Driven Adrift in the Frozen Sky., by Luis Senarens (Gutenberg ebook)
• Frank Reade Jr.'s Air Wonder, The "Kite"; Or, A Six Weeks' Flight Over the Andes, by Luis Senarens (Gutenberg ebook)
• Frank Reade Jr.'s Submarine Boat; or, to the North Pole Under the Ice., by Luis Senarens (Gutenberg ebook)
• Frank Reade, Jr., and his new steam man; or, the young inventor's trip to the far west, by Luis Senarens (Gutenberg ebook)
• Frank Reade and His Steam Horse, by Luis Senarens (Gutenberg ebook)

• Born to trouble : one hundred years of Huckleberry Finn (Library of Congress, 1985), by Justin Kaplan (page images at HathiTrust)

• The women behind the market (Macfadden-Bartell Corp., 1962), by W.R. Simmons and Associates Research (page images at HathiTrust)
• The continuing study of newspaper reading : 138-study summary. (Advertising Research Foundation, 1951), by American Newspaper Publishers Association. Bureau of Advertising and Advertising Research Foundation (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The women behind the market (New York : Macfadden-Bartell Corp., 1962-1963., 1963), by W.R. Simmons and Associates Research and Macfadden-Bartell Corporation (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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