>Bruce;
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>Hope you are having a good day in this "almost perfect world".
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>This is the wave of the future! Soon there will be no books. Now being a speed-reader I find it a pain to read a small screen full of information that glares at me unlike a book. This same screen produces radiation and comes with warnings about ones health. I was taught that "Books are Friends"! What the hell is a CRT? :)

You are reading my mind... (which is probably a simple read for you! :)

As I get older I find it harder to stare at the screen all day without my eyes getting red and sore. I am using lots of "Genteal" these days.

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>Old habits die hard or not at all. I have read over 17,000 books in my lifetime – yes I keep track! I cannot imagine using a computer to read anything serious but that is the “vision” we are getting from many sources. Reading anything from a computer screen is like being in the first grade in grammar school. This is my dog Spot. See Spot run. Run Spot run. It is limited!

You got me beat. I read only about 50 books a year, so I am setting around 2,000. Mostly sci-fi and science, and the occasional civil war history.


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>Can you imagine doing research (as I have done for many years) without having available several books opened at the same time and book marked? By the way I NEVER mark a book with a pen or other such object but do use a bookmark. Some people use a yellow marking pen. I have seen some people mark everything they read. I guess that allows them to know “where they have been”!

Marking everything you read. I saw students do it mostly because profs would say "that is important, learn it", or "the test will covere these things". The students would dutifully mark the text with magic markers and then 'cram' those things the night before the test. What a waste of time. They rarely remember what they've crammed.


>So a business decision was made with the latest version of the Hackers Guide. Now we all have to jump up and down and agree what a great decision it was. Just think like the Lemmings and head for the cliff! Do not express yourself as this might upset the gods and demi-gods – self professed or otherwise.

Tom, you missed two important features of the printed page... it can be read while on the porcelin throne and it doesn't require batteries :)