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marginallymanic
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| Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 6:11 am Post subject: Dumb and Dumber |
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No.No.....not Buddha and Nomad
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| In the four minutes it probably takes to read this review, you will have logged exactly half the time the average 15- to 24-year-old now spends reading each day. That is, if you even bother to finish. If you are perusing this on the Internet, the big block of text below probably seems daunting, maybe even boring. Who has the time? Besides, one of your Facebook friends might have just posted a status update! |
http://www.latimes.com/features/books/la-et-book5-2008jul05,0,3980465.story
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Midwest
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A kinder, gentler article from the Atlantic's Nicholas Carr about much the same thing: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/google. After years of internet usage, I have noticed an increasing impatience and tendency to skim, a lack of concentration. I have been fighting that by increasing my actual two-hands-on-a-book, turn-the-page reading. It seems to have helped.
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marginallymanic
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Exactly..........I was doing the same.
I have decided that you cannot beat a good book. I refused to take my LT with me last week on purpose, read a couple of novels instead
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Midwest
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Absolutely, MM. While I acknowledge the benefit of having free books for download online a la Bartleby, I simply can't read a novel on a computer screen. I have to have the physical book in my hands. My husband has remarked on the piles of books that seem to be overtaking the house....
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buddhakisa
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I kid you not, before I even opened the thread I was going to respond by saying I only looked to see who MM thought was dumber than me.  Good choice, I would have picked nomad as well.
I'm a dinosuar too. Love those books. Just bought about 6 last weekend off the Coles sale rack, finished the first 2 days ago.
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Nomad
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I've tried reading eBooks but it just isn't the same. Besides, it looks suspicious as hell to be sitting on the can with a computer in your lap.
Nothing travels like a paperback. |
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Phillippe
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Between correcting papers and reading articles, I probably spend 4-5 hours a day reading something. I've noticed that the time I spend on the internet is time that I almost refuse to read articles from start to finish. Maybe I'm lazy. However, the internet is the greatest resource for finding academic material-- I just got another Charlotte Linde article on narrative and tacit social knowledge, but I have to print it off and read a hard copy.
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