lestercat
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Post by lestercat on Jan 24, 2014 12:41:16 GMT -6
IDK if this is sad, scary or tragic. "If you are the sort of person who believes that TV and the Internet have turned American culture into a post-literate scrubland full of cat GIFs and reality TV spinoffs, then this news will probably reinforce your worst suspicions." "The Pew Research Center reported last week that nearly a quarter of American adults had not read a single book in the past year. As in, they hadn't cracked a paperback, fired up a Kindle, or even hit play on an audiobook while in the car. The number of non-book-readers has nearly tripled since 1978." Statistics & graphs included HERE
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Post by heregoes on Jan 24, 2014 12:43:31 GMT -6
How very sad. The enjoyment from books is timeless and never goes away IMO. Heck I read at least a few books every month. I hate to think how much I spend on books but I'll never stop.
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Post by springschick on Jan 24, 2014 12:44:52 GMT -6
I would be lost without my books!
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Post by griobhtha on Feb 7, 2014 22:16:40 GMT -6
Can't imagine not reading. Children mimic their parents, so if they never see parents reading then they won't read either. So Sad.
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Post by springschick on Feb 7, 2014 23:31:02 GMT -6
I read all the time myself, and read to my kids all the time. They loved me reading to them (I did all the voices), but neither one enjoys reading. Makes me sad.
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Post by Sauerkraut on Mar 1, 2014 14:22:54 GMT -6
Books will be on-line or on computer screens. I can't see books still being used 50 or 75 years from today other than the books from today that still survive.
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Post by Sauerkraut on Mar 1, 2014 14:23:47 GMT -6
Can't imagine not reading. Children mimic their parents, so if they never see parents reading then they won't read either. So Sad. You'll be reading books from computer screens in the future.
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Post by springschick on Mar 2, 2014 19:58:02 GMT -6
Can't imagine not reading. Children mimic their parents, so if they never see parents reading then they won't read either. So Sad. You'll be reading books from computer screens in the future. I do that now. It is still a book.
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Post by gollum on Mar 2, 2014 20:34:24 GMT -6
You'll be reading books from computer screens in the future. I do that now. It is still a book. Give him a break. He hasn't quite caught up with the 90's yet.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2014 17:59:31 GMT -6
I still read (study) a lot, primarily the King James Bible, and the New Testament, more often than not.
I enjoy reading, and re-reading English/American Lit, and Russian classics. I enjoy a challenge so I recently read The House of the Dead, and Poor Folk, by Fyodor Dostoevsky. My favorite Ruski author is Tolstoy, though.
When I want lighter fare, I will re-read Steinbeck or even Mark Twain. I recently read William Faulkner's, As I Lay Dying. Not so light. Weird story! Before that I read a 'Utopian theme' story, Looking Backward by ? . . Bellamy, I think. It was fascinating!
It's an enjoyable discipline for me. I have at times gone for months without curling up with a good book. Some months ago, I read a Somerset Maugham book, ( not Of Human Bondage ) but I can't recall the title. I buy the paperbacks, new on Amazon, read them and resell them (on Amazon.) I am very easy on books, never marking in them or 'dog-earring' any pages, so sometimes I come close to breaking even.
My girls have told me that I need a Kindle [sp] but that's just would not be the same, for me.
Peace,
OHD
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Post by griobhtha on Mar 6, 2014 15:53:28 GMT -6
GS and family watched movie based on book "Enders Game" by Orson Scott Card, movie was good, and he wanted to read the book(s), but it is on waiting lists at library, so maybe making movies from good books will get children reading. Who knows.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2014 12:39:59 GMT -6
Although there is a lot of reading material on the internet, I still prefer a real book I can hold in my hands, turn pages, and stick in place finders. Scrap paper make good place finders as you can writer on that paper what it was on the page you wanted to remember.
When we moved to our current home my wife and I gave about 1500 books to the library and that left us with about 3,000. Our little family library has grown since then. Few are fiction books and most are older non-fiction from prowling used book sales and garage sales.
I find it easier when working on some paper (for some local group) to have about half a dozen or so books open on the table around me for reference.
Books allow a connection to the thoughts of other people from other times and places, almost as if they were right there next to you. Holding the book in your hands is obviously a physical act but it is more as (in a way) by holding the book you join with the writer in creating understanding. Its almost as if you have to tear out (figuratively) the word meanings and mix them with past readings and experiences.
By reading words as they were written by the sources, you quickly discover that those interpretive writings by others often miss original meanings or distort them by looking at them through frosted glass of their own agendas. The peoples from long ago and in other places are little different from the people of today. Those things we find inspiring from today were almost always in the hearts and minds of those from long ago. And, those of today with words and actions detrimental to individuals also existed in the words of those from long ago.
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