Re: OT -- Because...

Ken Cashion wrote:
...this is an international forum and I respect the judgment of so
many of you here -- on so many varied subjects -- I have a personal
question.


Perhaps many, many people are reading on-line and I don't know it
because I am so far out of the loop.

Ideas?
Opinions?
Suggestions?

No money is involved. Something more valuable than money is...time.

Ken, kid trying to learn a trade.

Three observations:

1. We are a (relatively) older group. My bet would be that we would skew to paper based on that fact alone.

2. My personal preference is still to read books (and magazines). I just find it more enjoyable to not be tethered to my computer.

3. Print is immune to technological obsolescence. Try reading that file you save to 5 1/4 inch floppy disk. Or even that 3 1/2. None of the computers in my house has a floppy drive. I can read every book I ever bought or received, including those from my childhood. What will we do in 100 years when we want to look at the media that is current now? It will be an esoteric and limited pool that have "vintage" hardware that can still access that information.

Charlie (just observing) Sikora


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It's not dating advice, but take out "pam" to reply.
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