Books have their place - in the hands of eager readers, as needed.

All the others have long lines of readers eager to meet them.

Gladstone was a life-long scholar and an eager reader and collector of books.

For readers eager to act now, some options are at www.nytimes.com/kristofresponds, Posting 479.

Meanwhile, readers understandably eager for Buckley's memoirs will have to wait until next year, if not longer.

The eager reader lays hold of these books.

Downtown streets were filled with readers eager to improve their counting skills.

Why should anyone think that such an approach will make them eager readers?

But still others, she believes, can be turned into eager readers if only someone points the way.

But Mrs. Pinto and her staff can tell stories about eager readers who have been tangled in the street life.