I've always been interested in gadgets and technology and I've always been a reader.

Maturity is a series of shattered illusions.

That's not a role you prepare for. There's no preparation. You don't have time to prepare for the reading of an audiobook. You do the reading of an audiobook in basically two days' time - an unabridged version, maybe three days.

With the technology of tablet computers, if we bring the right content to them and distribute them ubiquitously throughout the land, we can do something about America being ranked 29th in the world in terms of our level of education.

For me, a good children's book is a good children's book is a good children's book.

Libraries do one thing that no other institution does and that's provide access to all.

If we marry educational technology with quality, enriching content, that's a circle of win.