Writing and reading

[Fosco33]

With all my plane travels, I've knocked out at least 15 300+ pg novels in the past 9 months alone. That's nothing to say for the amount of writing/reading/emailing and surfing I do on a daily basis. Heck, my bookshelf is very outgrown to the point where I had to buy another (and that one is filling up).

"You are a combination of the people you've met and the books you've read"

Scary that people don't read books much anymore - but I wonder if the internet has improved overall articles read - you gotta hope....

[Partial]

You libs can have your little stroke fest, but equating people buying books to them lacking intelligence is outdated. Hell, a lot of the reading material that I'm interested in (e.g. programming books or other programming resources) I can get for free on the Internet.

Precisely right. Why is it pathetic that the medium I choose to read is not a book? Is interacting on a message board forum not improving my vocabulary, opening my eyes to the new ideas, and providing me the same enjoyment that reading a book would?

It's the same thing. Just a different medium. Personally, I read about 50-60 news articles a day. I have a slight obsession with digg. I enjoy it, I learn from it, and most importantly I learn from it.

To be blunt, I think the world would be a better place if more people would read up on a random, wide variety of non-fiction topics via newspapers, etc. rather than reading the latest dan brown novel. To each his own, though.