Posted on 03/18/2018 7:02:24 PM PDT by WilliamIII
Spent my career as a junior-high history teacher. I do not think “the system” deliberately tries to fail, but have to agree it does fail far too often.
2 problems with ebooks: price points are too high, and the downloader doesn’t actually own the book.
I was visiting in Los Angeles last summer and went to a bookstore in downtown L.A. It was huge and had a large and eclectic section. I bought three books there. It had two floors and the upstairs had books for sale not for reading, but for decorative purposes and it even had these designs that you could take your picture with. They were like book arches and book made windows. I’m wondering if this is the bookstore.
I have a Kindle, but I still love to read my physical books. Heck, I still have four magazine subscriptions I get. I guess that seems out of the times.
To the person that said we should do away with libraries, I completely disagree. Ours is a community center as well as a library. It’s a central meeting place where speakers come, and the library is very well used. I believe it’s a community asset and worth my taxes, even if I didn’t use it. It’s just like the school system, my kids are long gone from it and have all graduated college even, however, I still want to live in a community with a good school system. It’s these type of community assets that keep your community young, vibrant and not turning into slum area. It keeps your house value up, because young people with families don’t want to move into communities that don’t have good schools or libraries.
I remember reading Classics Illustrated as a kid?
Same here. Got my first Kindle about 10 years ago, got rid of all my hard copy books soon after. I read now more than ever, have purchased hundreds of books through Kindle, everyone of which is still available and not taking up any physical space. What I love it the fact that virtually any and every book is available to me in just seconds.
I suspect something more along the lines of "Weapon Shops of Isher" would be be more effective, heheh.
Sounds interesting.
I'm at the phase of needing my own barn just for books. Probably this year I'm going to pull the lever and digitize most of my library, keeping only the durable books.
You never heard of Saul Alinsky?
Bill Ayers?
Common Core?
Sadly, it goes the way of many a book store; even the major chain stores. Books are friends that many ignore, preferring video and electronic devises. To hold a solid print in hand is akin to holding a treasure, a ticket to world travel. Alas! Well, Half Price Books and Abe’s Books are still on our streets and become our future destinations.
Of course I’ve heard of them. But Saul and Bill had no influence on me or the people I taught with. Common Core, well, that did. But because I taught history, it had no effect on my subject matter, because CC doesn’t (or didn’t) have much to do with history. I was told that I was to encourage reading and math skills in my history classes. Since history is mostly reading, I had that covered–I always chose texts with the highest reading level available. I’d throw in an occasional math problem on my history tests just to watch them struggle with a question like “The Wright brothers flew their plane in 1903—how long ago was that?” And no, they weren’t allowed to use calculators.
Bill Ayers DESIGNED Common Core.
As I said, history, because it is such an unimportant subject, was barely touched by CC. That said, how did things come to pass that a self-admitted terrorist is walking free, let alone setting education policy? (It’s a rhetorical question, I already know the answer).
How did things come to pass that a self-admitted terrorist is walking free, let alone setting education policy?
How did a muslim become president of the US and give $150 billion to the US’ worst enemy, Iran?
Because the Deep State wanted that.
That happened to me, too. I ordered a book on digital photography but received one on how to get into nursing school.
I assume you're being facetious. I don't know what I would do without libraries. I have about 15 library cards and there's a permanent pile of checked-out books on my living room bookshelf.
I picked up a book at my library today and the parking lot was just about full——at 10:00 AM.
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Sounds like my local public library.
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