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Re: Reading in steep decline?
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Thu, 8 Jul 2004 18:36:42 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks wrote:
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.

It doesn't count as reading while driving unless the book is propped open on the
steering wheel.

Dave!



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  Re: Reading in steep decline?
 
(...) That doesn't count as reading either! ... but it does count as evolution in action. (20 years ago, 8-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Re: Reading in steep decline?
 
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 (...) (20 years ago, 8-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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