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  Re: The value of reading (was: If you could leave any book on Kjeld's nightstand...)
 
To Allan, Chris, and all others interested: My humorous input: I must say that I simply could not live without reading LEGO Idea Books.... <grin> Okay, now my less humorous input: I think I will have to side with Allan (based on his previous post) (...) (22 years ago, 26-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: The value of reading (was: If you could leave any book on Kjeld's nightstand...)
 
(...) I'm not sure that we can generalize like that. Most of what _I_ read is non-fiction designed to teach a person how to do something (use the perl split() function, plant bamboo, teach the philosophy of appropriate technology, etc.) A close (...) (22 years ago, 26-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: The value of reading (was: If you could leave any book on Kjeld's nightstand...)
 
I'm going to make an assumption here, knowing that I could very well be wrong. I don't think that Chris was trying to say that reading is obsolete or inferior to other media, I think he was just trying to pose different sides of the argument... I've (...) (22 years ago, 26-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: The value of reading (was: If you could leave any book on Kjeld's nightstand...)
 
(...) I get the sense this is the major point of your argument, and one that I must agree with. My previous arguments were based on *my* experience with the different media. Surely, as you imply, electronic media could be employed differently and in (...) (22 years ago, 2-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: The value of reading (was: If you could leave any book on Kjeld's nightstand...)
 
(...) I find myself disagreeing with that. I have little experience of US printed journalism, but I find the broadcast journalism to be nothing more than "infotainment". It my be a cultural thing(?). (...) Interestingly, I read a quote from "Stupid (...) (22 years ago, 2-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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