Re: Weekly posting summary

On Mar 29, 12:55 am, Troia <troia.leg...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> I see this as an albeit-cyclic parallel to those people who believe that
> books -- the ones made of paper & such -- will disappear because you can
> get the content in such supposedly-new-and-improved ways now.
>
> And yet, despite the doom-and-gloom predictions, and despite web-boards
> and e-books and books-on-tape and instant-messaging ... more books are
> sold, and more people are on news servers.
> -- Troia

I had a philosophy professor in college who was adamant about the use
of the newly built library building we had on campus being utilzed.
At least once a term he would say things like: "There is this
building, with windows, that has books in it- it's called a library.
The college spent a lot of money making a newer better building, and I
want you to make use of it.  The only website I want to see listed as
a reference is the online location of a literary journal or
publication"

And, without fail, there was always at least one newbie who complained
about doing legitimate research for a paper.

~Oct'avian (otherwise known in college as "Monmouth's own barefoot
philosopher")