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Pacwriter
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Posted on Tuesday, August 21, 2007 - 12:19 pm:

CHECK OUT THE ARTICLE FROM THE NY TIMES

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Reading-Habits-AP-Poll.html

http://www.perrycomer.com

Bill Nelson
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Posted on Tuesday, August 21, 2007 - 12:49 pm:

Baby boomers and genx were not conditioned to read from the printed page from
birth like earlier generations.
Electronic means of disseminating information has practically doomed the conventional book.
I'm betting if reading (as pleasure or a habit) is ever revived (and I doubt it), it will be in the form of e-books (not the current technology, but some
advanced version thereof).
Those who clutch the "old" ways, will be left at the station. The train has moved out.
Hey, the world moves on, and on, and on, and...

Tom Elkins
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Posted on Tuesday, August 21, 2007 - 03:17 pm:

Hey Bill...where you been?

Tom Elkins
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Claudia Turner VanLydegraf
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Posted on Tuesday, August 21, 2007 - 03:46 pm:

gee....., I read about three, sometimes more, books EVERY month....... wonder what that says about me, other than I am a reviewer of books, and that I like to read from a printed page that I can hold in my hand and curl up in a chair with. Personally, I read on the puter every day, many things, but when I want to read for pleasure, I want a physical printed page in my hands that I can take anywhere, even to the bathroom with me if I chose to do that and a handheld thing, well, it just down't fit (currently) those requirements.

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Gloria Marlow
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Posted on Tuesday, August 21, 2007 - 04:04 pm:

I'm not really surprised by that. I've always been an avid (possibly rabid) reader. I was not a normal person. I rarely saw any other adolescents, teenagers or young mothers with their nose buried in a book every free moment. My husband reads every day. He reads magazines, the Bible, books on Revelations, etc., but never a work of fiction. Rarely a book.

In the last few years, I have started more books without finishing them than I ever did in my life. The majority of books I have bought and attempted to read in the last few years have been mediocre at best.

Of my friends I have had throughout my life, none of them have been readers, none of them even understood why I read or my love of books. Maybe that's why I like it here so much.

Readers stay readers. They usually beget at least one reader. I don't know how you make someone into a reader, but I do see more people reading now than I used to. Kids are forced to read a set number of books in school. Maybe that will pay off one day (I don't think so, but it might). I don't think books are going anywhere. I think they are here to stay. Maybe electronic readers will catch on, but maybe they won't. I would never choose one over a real book. Anything electronic is just to unreliable. I just can't imagine snuggling up under the covers or at the beach with one.

Anyway, those are just my thoughts on it.

Gloria

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Todd Hunter
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Posted on Tuesday, August 21, 2007 - 04:42 pm:

When new hardbacks are running near $30 and new mass market paperbacks are running around $8 or more, it's not hard to figure out why people don't read much anymore.

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Stephen Lodge
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Posted on Tuesday, August 21, 2007 - 04:53 pm:

"When new hardbacks are running near $30 and new mass market paperbacks are running around $8 or more..."

It's funny how people won't pay that kind of money for a book, but they'll spend whatever it costs for a movie, and who-knows-how-much for a concert - or their life savings on a theme park visit. For some reason books are not considered entertainment, yet, books are probably the cheapest form of entertainment available.

http://www.stephenlodge.com
Novels by Stephen Lodge:
"Charley Sunday's Texas Outfit!"
"Nickel-Plated Dream"
"Shadows of Eagles"

Pacwriter
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Posted on Tuesday, August 21, 2007 - 09:09 pm:

speaking of price, I wonder how the cheapo novellas are selling. I've seen racks of them for $2.95 or so.

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Gloria Marlow
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Posted on Wednesday, August 22, 2007 - 06:17 am:

I see a lot of people reading hard back books. I think the library benefits from the increasing price of books. But we readers read regardless of the price. We find a way around the price, whether that is book swapping with friends, going to the library, going to the flea market, used book store or yard sales.

Gloria

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Tom Elkins
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Posted on Wednesday, August 22, 2007 - 08:17 am:

Ah, Bill...

"The moving finger writes, and having writ, moves on
Nor all your piety nor wit
can lure it back to cancel half a line
nor all your tears wash out a word of it."

(I love to quote that stuff, but I can't spell Rhubyat - obviously).

Tom Elkins
NORTH of TEXAS
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Todd Hunter
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Posted on Wednesday, August 22, 2007 - 03:38 pm:

I see a lot of people reading hard back books.
I usually buy hardbacks on the deep discount table at the bookstore...

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Gloria Marlow
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Posted on Wednesday, August 22, 2007 - 05:08 pm:

I do, too. They are often several dollars cheaper than a paperback.

Gloria
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Joyce Scarbrough
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Posted on Wednesday, August 22, 2007 - 08:10 pm:

Well, I did my part in correcting this by constantly reading something ever since I read REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM when I was in the second grade, and also by giving the world three more avid readers by having my children. And I would venture to say that my daughter Tia, at 18, has already read more books than her mother. Our annual book budget runs into the thousands. Thank God she took the test to work at the public library today.

~Joyce Sterling Scarbrough
True Blue Forever
ISBN 0-9722385-9-X
Different Roads
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Read the first chapters: http://www.authorsden.com/joycelscarbrough1
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Bill Nelson
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Posted on Thursday, August 23, 2007 - 08:57 am:

Tom;
Mr Fitzgerald would be proud.
Don't forget, "Lo, the bird of time is on the wing and the bird has but a
short way to fly."

Tom Elkins
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Posted on Thursday, August 23, 2007 - 10:58 am:

Can't find it, Bill. Edward and I were drinkin' buddies. I could never get his math, but he was a better poet than Omar.

Tom Elkins
NORTH of TEXAS
www.authorsden.com/tomelkins

Bill Nelson
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Posted on Thursday, August 23, 2007 - 12:32 pm:

To be precise...

Come, fill the Cup, and in the Fire of Spring

Your Winter Garment of Repentance fling:

The Bird of Time has but a little way

To fly - and Lo! the Bird is on the Wing.

Stephen Lodge
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Posted on Thursday, August 23, 2007 - 08:05 pm:

Sounds like you two better drink up now ~

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Novels by Stephen Lodge:
"Charley Sunday's Texas Outfit!"
"Nickel-Plated Dream"
"Shadows of Eagles"

Tom Elkins
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Posted on Thursday, August 23, 2007 - 08:05 pm:

Perhaps you mean -

Come, fill the Cup, and in the fire of Spring
Your Winter-garment of Repentance fling:
The Bird of Time has but a little way
To flutter--and the Bird is on the Wing.

It was the "Lo" that threw me off.

Tom Elkins
NORTH of TEXAS
www.authorsden.com/tomelkins

Stephen Lodge
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Posted on Thursday, August 23, 2007 - 09:01 pm:

Up to the lips
Over the gums
Look out stomach
Here she comes

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Novels by Stephen Lodge:
"Charley Sunday's Texas Outfit!"
"Nickel-Plated Dream"
"Shadows of Eagles"

Bill Nelson
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Posted on Friday, August 24, 2007 - 09:21 am:

Depends on which translation you read.
I do like Steve's idea though.

Tom Elkins
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Posted on Friday, August 24, 2007 - 02:11 pm:

Thought you weren't drinking? Oh no...that's Steve,

Tom Elkins
NORTH of TEXAS
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Stephen Lodge
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Posted on Friday, August 24, 2007 - 02:26 pm:

That doesn't mean I never have ~

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"Charley Sunday's Texas Outfit!"
"Nickel-Plated Dream"
"Shadows of Eagles"

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