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Re: Reading in steep decline?
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Thu, 8 Jul 2004 18:27:49 GMT
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Something else I should have asked in my other note...

What counts as reading?  If I get a CD with someone reading the Illiad to me,
does that count?  Obviously, I'm not engaged in the specific physical act of
parsing written language, but I am exposing myself to literature.  I do, in
fact, listen to books on tape and CD while driving.

Chris



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  Re: Reading in steep decline?
 
(...) It doesn't count as reading while driving unless the book is propped open on the steering wheel. Dave! (20 years ago, 8-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Reading in steep decline?
 
(URL) thing I came away with, and it doesn't offset the overall concern I feel, is that it may not be READING that is in steep decline, it may be reading BOOKS. One of the chief competitive sources listed was the internet. High bandwidth streaming (...) (20 years ago, 8-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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