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Playstation Lures Kids Into Libraries
Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing to an ICWales article reporting the latest consoles are being used to attract children into libraries, apparently "..to dispel their image as scary, boring places." This measure, being tried in some libraries in Wales, may "..make the youngsters recognize that libraries are places for enjoyment, leisure and information", according to a local librarian. However, Welsh politician Valdo Funning was more dismissive, saying: "I was brought up with Treasure Island and Wordsworth and all the great poets, and it gave me a love of those which I still have today at 67. Literature gives you a lifetime of pleasure. I wouldn't have that if I had been playing on a PlayStation."
....drive library patrons from the library.
And the kind of wild uncontrolled children those games are drawing into the library are repellant, too.
Sorry for being a little negative about it all. The library is a place for books.
Most games, I think it's fair to say all games, are inferior trash compared to Treasure Island and Lewis Carroll.
It isn't just that 'he doesn't like it.' Aesthetically, the games played on computers are pretty pitiful compared to the classics of literature. Maybe someday that will change. We'll just have to give it time to see.
But now I said a complicated word like 'aesthetic' and you'd better all run back to your rumble pack and frag some zoids or whatever.