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Americans Read Fewer Books
DesScorp writes "The National Endowment for the Arts has released a study that shows a decline in the reading of fiction, poetry, and short stories. The study began in 1982, but shows a particularly steep decline from 1992-2002, the first decade of the Age of the Internet. They never seem to draw the conclusion that the Net may have accelerated our turn from this kind of reading, but the timing seems suspicious to me. I know I don't read for pleasure as much as I did years ago because of the time spent on the Net (and in technical books). NPR has a good audio link here for you non-readers; the Seattle Post-Intelligencer has a nice article as well." You could also - assuming you read - see the study itself.
New books are for assholes who like people to see what's on their shelves.
Read, L
That's because the other NEA has destroyed American education.
But the schools do turn out plenty of stupid Democrats, who empower the "education lobby" NEA, who make more stupid Democrats, who empower the NEA, who make more Democrats.
then
Why can't libraries allow downloads and have author payments from them
PS. get a fucking job, I don't pay %40 of my income in tax for you to whack off and hang out on IRC all day
Saying Java is nice because it works on all OS's is like saying that anal sex is nice because it works on all genders.
But I read it just for the articles.
Damn, and all this time I thought people were going to pr0n sites because they like to jerk off.
LK
"Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
Digression: short attention spans are a threat to society because they cause people to be intellectually lazy and assume that the world is simpler than it really is. Then they make poor decisions based on their incomplete understanding.
Like going to Iraq?