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Originally posted by Thomas Paul:
You can even drop your book in the bathtub and after it dries out it still works fine.
Originally posted by Axel Janssen:
I am absolutedly pro books, too. But everybody who once in his life developed the nasty habit to read books in bathtubes knows that books and bathtub simply does not match very well. I mean, the book doesn't look very nice after that treatment.
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There will be glitches in my transition from being a saloon bar sage to a world statesman. - Tony Banks
Of course books existed before the printing press but the printing press made books mass produceable and therefore cheap. Once cheap books became available, there was more incentive to learn to read. Knowledge was no longer just in the domain of the wealthy and the large colleges and monasteries. The printing press made all human knowledge available to anyone who was interested in it. Could any of the scientific developments since the printing press (including the computer) have been developed if 90% of society was illiterate?Originally posted by Ray Marsh:
I read an article about the top inventions in the history of the world and this particular piece sited the Gutenberg press as number 1.
Associate Instructor - Hofstra University
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Associate Instructor - Hofstra University
Amazon Top 750 reviewer - Blog - Unresolved References - Book Review Blog
Jayalalitha is my girl friend. KarunaNidhi is my boy friend
Originally posted by Manmohan Singh:
But one must agree that number of porn-xrated magazines has reduced substantially.
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A good workman is known by his tools.
Would you willingly read a book on a PDA screen? The screen is tiny, and with the tech companies trying to get things ever smaller will decrease in size even more to about the size of a cellphone screen.
Do you know what has become the hot PDA lately? Paper and pen. I kid you not. In NYC it has become hot to toss your PDA and take notes the old fashioned way. And I don't know anyone other than a true geek who wants a PDA in their cell phone.
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Originally posted by Manmohan Singh:
But one must agree that number of porn-xrated magazines has reduced substantially.