"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture."

Lex

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Mon Sep-03-07 05:55 PM
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"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture."

AP-Ipsos Poll: 1 in 4 U.S. adults read no books last year

AP WASHINGTON: One in four U.S. adults say they read no books at all in the past year, according to an Associated Press-Ipsos poll released Tuesday.

PS: DU has a fiction forum and non-fiction forum here with lots of good info about books and authors. :hi:

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CGowen

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Mon Sep-03-07 06:03 PM
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1. They didn't mention pdf or Audio-CDs

I rarely read books made from paper.

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Lex

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Mon Sep-03-07 06:08 PM
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3. If you read a pdf book, then I doubt that was excluded.

It was a book, and you read its words. The question in the survey was how many books you read--not how many 'paper books' you read.

Audio CDs were probably not included since it wasn't strictly speaking "reading a book."

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PDJane

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Mon Sep-03-07 06:03 PM
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2. GAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

How can you NOT read??? Even one book? Even fiction?

I just don't get it........

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Lex

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Mon Sep-03-07 06:11 PM
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4. It would be a harsh punishment for me not to be able to

constantly have a book that I'm reading, and one in the wings waiting to be read.

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Igel

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Mon Sep-03-07 06:20 PM
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9. My parents.

My mother didn't read a book from when she got her GED in '67 or '68 to years after she retired. There were books around, but they were to fill up a bookcase in the living room. Now she reads, but just what Democratic Party friends suggest; if it makes her hate blacks or repubs more, she's there.

My father didn't get his GED. I never saw him reading unti maybe 10 years ago, long after retirement. Now he reads mysteries and the like voraciously. But things political, non-fiction, or 'serious' ... nah.

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PDJane

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Mon Sep-03-07 07:52 PM
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10. Agnes the Blunt (my mother)

has a grade 8 education, no GED. When she was growing up, one worked; you had to pay for high school, and she worked in textiles from 13 to 73.

She still reads, and always has, 3-6 books per week. *shrug* I guess it's just example........

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SmokingJacket

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Mon Sep-03-07 06:11 PM
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5. That number seems low to me.

I mean, 75% of Americans read a book last year? I work in a book store, and I find that hard to believe.

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Lex

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Mon Sep-03-07 06:12 PM
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6. Lots of library users in my town, so

not everyone necessarily goes to the bookstore to get their fix.

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SmokingJacket

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Mon Sep-03-07 06:15 PM
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8. Oh, I know, but I still think 75% seems high.

NOT including kids picture books?

Maybe if you include religious texts...

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tom_paine

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Mon Sep-03-07 06:15 PM
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7. Anybody ever read "farenheit 451"?

I always thought modern Bush Totalitarianism had more than a few elements of Bradbury's prophetic vision.

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