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Continue reading →: Quick Link | The world’s most perfect product
Well, he may overstate the case but it’s worth the read! Think about it. It hasn’t been fundamentally improved upon for 1,000 years. Few other products in the world match it for reach and purity of function. It’s cheap, transportable, sharable. It’s immersive, transformative, offers universal and timeless appeal across…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Inside View from Ireland: Rise of Social, Demise of Literary Reading
So Say We All! I’m concerned at the demise of literary reading–the reading of fiction, poetry, or plays. It has declined among all specified ethnic groups, at all educational levels, among all age groups, and among both women and men. In US research, the “steepest decline in literary reading is…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | It’s the End of the Book As We Know It — and I Feel Fine « The Scholarly Kitchen
Yes, yes and yes! But will book reading actually suffer? I doubt it. My kids would love to have Kindles so that they could read spontaneously. They get addicted to a series (don’t get me going about “Pretty Little Liars” right now), and once one book is polished off, they…
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Continue reading →: The Pue in Pue's Occurrences (via Pue's Occurrences)
Nice post on the origin of the name Pue’s Occurrences! Contributed by Turlough O'Riordan I'm sure some of you, even the eighteenth-century experts among you and those who have read our 'about' page, will have asked the question at some stage: just who was this Pue character anyway? We asked Turlough…
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