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Never enough room or time for my books.

I read forty to fifty books a year, if only I had time for more. I have been a chronic reader since college. Fortunately for me, my university was experimenting with Oxford style methods of limited lecture, a shelf-full of book-study, then a verbal interview with the professor about that shelf-full of books I had to read. The best result from that course of study was the habit of always reading books.
The unintended consequence is my ubiquitous pile of books, everywhere. 
I have to praise Amazon here. They made it possible to find books I never dreamed of getting. I now hope to live long enough to get though half the books I now own. m/r

Bibliophobia

What happens to society when people stop reading books?

Daniel J. Flynn  September 9, 2016 

One in four Americans confesses to not reading a book in the last year. That’s up from one in five in the Pew survey taken just five years ago. In a Gallup poll from 1978, a year that began with Ted Nugent autographing an arm with a Bowie knife at a fan’s request and ended with Americans flooding movie theaters to watch Every Which Way But Loose, fewer than one in twelve copped to not reading a book.

It’s later than you think.
Anecdotal evidence of Americans devolving into foppish versions of Huck Finn’s father increasingly confront. Unlike the redneck paterfamilias, the new enemies of book learnin’ imagine themselves as too cutting edge for such antiquated pursuits. Stupid is the new smart.

The page retreated as screens advanced.

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