Paper is better for the brain.
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“If the mountain will not come to Muhammad, then Muhammad must go to the mountain
Many poor students can not buy a $200 or $300 textbook, so their solution is to buy a cheap used one or to buy a digital one, print it (using software), and turn it into a spiral-bound book, which is about one-quarter of the original cost. Buying an old one means you’re taking the risk of having outdated information
I support you, and I know that under capitalism us bibliophiles will become an ever shrinking minority, considered “saddos” by the majority; and yes, we will increasingly have to make do.
I was just saying that in a socialist society we wouldn’t have to.
Again, in terms of working class students in colleges you are right.
But a book for me is not just information.
For mere information we have textbooks and the internet, and pamphlets (such as our party pamphlets).
Buying an old used classical book is fine, but buying an old used scientific book is risky. Now, some Hornbooks have a back pocket where updated information can be inserted; therefore, you can get an old, used one and update it, but books for biology, physics, and natural sciences are a different situation
I still value my non-fiction books too, such as my beautiful books on cinema, and general, history. Some things thought to be true at the time they were published have been disproven since, but I still cherish the books; and cherish them more than a newly, poorly, printed updated textbook with photocopies in place of beautiful photos. I take the updated information on board but keep and love my “outdated” originals as part of me.
But then, I am not a student being made to read things for exams.
In Switzerland I tried to open a conversation with a student I saw reading a novel by Dickens. I asked him what he liked about it, and he replied “I don’t know. I’m reading it for an exam.” It was just information as far as he was concerned (and, unlike me, he probably passed!) Similarly, students here in England were popping bubbly cheap Champagne as they toppled out of the exam hall, one girl shouting, “GREAT! I’LL NEVER HAVE TO READ ANOTHER BOOK IN MY LIFE! YIPPEE!”
For them too, books were mere information.I have an old Encyclopedia Britannica, but I just keep it as a souvenir or for nostalgia in my storage (Part of my personal library, and I do not get bookworms ) because a lot of the information is outdated. My solution was to obtain an online subscription, which is always updated. Supermarkets and grocery stores were selling volumes of encyclopedias every week, but they are not selling them anymore because people are not reading anything; they are just buying movie star and sports magazines
PS: Bookworms eat the paper, the glue, the leather, the cardboard; rental storage is clean and fumigated, and some are fireproof, and bookshelves can be screwed; houses, condominiums, and apartments get bookworms, silverfish and firebrats. Now, libraries are noisy, and they are like coffee shops
The worst thing is to see rubbish skips outside libraries, full of books to be sent to the tip. They are replaced with computers.
Reading for pleasure is an idea that is alien to the “go for it” student, whose priority is to get the highest wage-slave price ticket in life he or she can.
Enjoying holding a book, musing, contemplating, reading it for pleasure is incomprehensible to an increasing number; and, once harnessed, most wage-slaves say they “don’t have the time.”
I had to work too, but I always took a book with me to read during breaks and lunchtime. Of course this could have its own problems, such as other workers grabbing my book and throwing it about the room, inserting porn magazine pictures in it when I wasn’t there, etc.
Their children are no doubt now among the chorus led by those announcing “the end of print.”TCM Turner Classical Movie is a good channel for classical movies
New York used to be a city who had many bookstores, magazine stores, newspapers stands and libraries.
Many peoples were reading books in the subways, parks and buses.
Youngster peoples sitting on the floors of the bookstores reading books,
classical movies stores all over, and classical music stores, some of them had 5 stories high.
Stereo equipments stores from USA manufactures, Japan, England and Germany, peoples collected them
Stores specializing on good comics book
All the libraries were managed by professional librarians .
Some stores had several pornograhy magazines and they call it a bookstores
Everything is gone, it is like dropping an atomic bomb of ignorance
One can buy inexpensive classic film DVDs on eBay.
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I prefer physical videos or movies. I have VHS,( SVHS ) Blu-ray, and HD
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