Retention: You can read a hundred pages of fiction in an afternoon and still not know ten new words by tomorrow. The reason? Exposure is easy; retention are difficult. Once you input your reading habits and review discipline, the calculator above do the math for you, so there’s no need to guess whether or not […]

The vast majority of teachers start out enthusiastic and well-intentioned. Then they has a classroom library filled with unused purchases. This isn’t usually because there’s no effort involved; it’s usually because of a failure of math. You don’t want a library so full that it looks like a wall of paper, but you also don’t […]

So here you are, at the uncomfortable junction of bookshelf and radiator. Can someone really sit down there and read? It’s one version of constant issue faced by parents, teachers, and librarians who is desperate to add a comfy reading nook but have square-footage that won’t accommodate their ambitions. Adding storage compounds the difficulty, and […]

With any luck, every book fair begins with a clipboard and a sense of hope, but few PTAs ends up with money in their pockets from this approach. The distance between net proceeds and gross sales (the difference between how much you sold and how much you’ll ultimately need to pay) often define your book […]