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[Duncan Frissell]

On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Tim May wrote:

>
> This is why books are still needed and why Slash Dot readers should
> think about learning to read them.
>

Tim,

It's not so much books qua books but the habits of mind that book reading
inculcates.  Most of the necessary information is up on the Universal
Library these days but many have a hard time reading or writing long form
"material".  The discipline of paper books is a useful one to employ.
Better even than free weights.

Perhaps those in the best postion are those in our birth cohort who are
old enough to have learned to read but young enough to have computed.

DCF
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Who learned to read just after the invention of the Top-40 radio format
and just before TV reached 90% penetration of US households (i.e. before
it was too late).