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Re: what's the point of books reading other books?

On Wed, 24 May 2006 Bowerbird@[redacted] wrote:

> bill said:
>>    Mortimer Adler's essay on "How to Read a Book" is online at
>>    http://www.cyberspacei.com/greatbooks/h2/how2read/h2r_contents.htm.
>>    I believe this is the 1960's edition.
>
> a snippet:
>
>>    "I told him that this book was like a book how to play tennis."
>
> very nice.
>
> still, i'll see your 1960's adler, bill janssen, and raise you a 1997/2002
> stallman:
>
>>    http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
>
> "the right to read", by richard stallman.
>
>>    "For Dan Halbert, the road to Tycho began in college --
>>    when Lissa Lenz asked to borrow his computer."
>
> -bowerbird

And I'll raise you "Printcrime, by Cory Doctorow.

Available on numerous sites, a much better predictor of the future.

And only a 10 minute read.



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