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To: Borges

Meanwhile, my count for the year is 93 out of my goal of 65. Too bad it only counts the first time I read a book. Then again, I am 66 and had an excellent third grade teacher who motivated me to read.


2 posted on 12/12/2025 3:16:23 PM PST by Ingtar
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To: Ingtar

Good for you. How do you find the time? Fast reader?


5 posted on 12/12/2025 3:19:59 PM PST by Fungi
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To: Ingtar

What’s a book? Is that something like a long text or tweet?


6 posted on 12/12/2025 3:20:42 PM PST by C210N
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To: Ingtar

Students are kept away from books that students have traditionaly enjoyed reading. They are racist. Now all the books and stories are about social issues and what is evil about American history.


8 posted on 12/12/2025 3:21:54 PM PST by odawg
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To: Ingtar

I was in high school 60 years ago and I never read an entire book.


10 posted on 12/12/2025 3:24:22 PM PST by zeebee
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To: Ingtar

I’m off this year with 32. I usually average around 50 per year.


15 posted on 12/12/2025 3:38:32 PM PST by yuleeyahoo (“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!” - the deep-state)
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To: Ingtar
I was born in 1947...the baby of the family. My mother taught me to read before I went to kindergarten, and since then, I've been an avid book reader. I regularly read out of four hard or softcover books in the afternoons, and two on my Kindle before I turn out the light in the wee hours of the morning. I read different genres, enjoy historical mysteries, non-fiction history books, horror, etc.

All kids have to do today is get AI to feed them a book report for school, if schools even require them today. This once again proves my point that the internet, and platforms like AI have made people even more lazy than they already were. They don't have to use their brains to create anything anymore. That's why so many of them are ignorant and illiterate.

25 posted on 12/12/2025 4:17:16 PM PST by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: Ingtar

I usually read one book per day, occasionally 2.


37 posted on 12/12/2025 4:50:41 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Ingtar

Funny line on Criminal Minds was when Shemar Moore was asking the brainy Dr. Spenser Reed about how nervous he was lately in a crisis involving him and his girlfriend.

“Look, I can’t concentrate. I only read five books all of last week.”


39 posted on 12/12/2025 4:57:18 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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