Re: OT -- Because...

debnchas wrote:
"Ken Cashion" <kcashion@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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...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.

There is the term "fishing in the wrong hole" that might apply here.
This is when a fellow is trying to do the right thing but in the wrong
place.

For instance... do many of you read on-line...like books...articles...
and the like? Not just for information but for entertainment?

Does anyone here set aside time to spend reading on-line? (Even at
home? <g>)

I know that Stephen King really screwed up trying to sell an e-book.
That might have been a little ambitious but this is not quite what I
mean. .

My principal source of information has always been books, with recent
filler-information gained on-line, but perhaps my age keeps me from
seeing a more popular fishing hole...the net in general, as a reading
source.

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.

I read quite a few physical books but I also do read online... books,
articles, whatever. I don't usually set aside a certain time to read, but
because of the availability of books online, it's hard not to spend some
time sitting there even though reading on a screen is not the same
experience as holding the book. My daughter has a book reader device ( I
think by Sony) and she loves it; I find that the display screen (or maybe my
eyes) just don't cut it.

I find that, too. I have wondered if the refresh rate has something to do with that. I find that, for anything critical, I have to print out a hard copy and proof that.

-Raf

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