Cleveland Librarian Wants to "Make America Read Again"

As for as I'm concerned, (other than that terrific speech by Rudy Giuliani last night) the best story to come out of Cleveland so far since the Republican National Convention began is this one about a Cleveland librarian who wants to make "America Read Again" and is helping to make that happen by handing out free books outside the convention center.  Bustle has the story and pictures: 

John Harris, a librarian working in Tremont, a neighborhood in Cleveland, came downtown with a crate on the back of his bike filled with books and a very literal reading of the city’s guidelines. “Cleveland said you're allowed to hand out literature, so why not come down and hand out some books,” Harris tells Bustle.

“It's not like I'm here in support of anybody, but hey, a little reading can't hurt anybody,” Harris says, regarding his role as a “book propagator.” And he’s not playing favorites when it comes to who gets the literature. “I'm here to hand out books to the people that are here [at the protests] ... I'm here to hand out books to the people that are in support of him over there.”

As I have said many times before (and will likely say many more times), readers are special people, some of the best in the world, and they prove it every day.  Do please read the rest of the story on the Bustle site...link is in red, up above.