"There is no friend as loyal as a book," American novelist Hemingway once observed. This Day (April 23), we celebrate those "friends" – the books that whisk us back to antiquity, catapult us into intergalactic space, educate us, compel us to stop and think, make us laugh or cry, and open our eyes to see ourselves and others in wider perspectives. Whether we get them from libraries, bookstores or online retailers, whether we read with them in our hands or on smartphones, books beckon us to enter exciting worlds.

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