Mo. Man Burns Books as Act of Protest

My Way News - Mo. Man Burns Books as Act of Protest

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his man is lashing out that people don't read books per say people are online people watch tv everything is "full." It is unfortunate. I do read "real" newspapers but I tend to get a lot of my news online because I can access newspapers that wouldn't necessarily be available to me in ye old Carlisle. Books on the other hand call me a luddite, which is odd since I spend part of my time digitizing books. In the perfect world, I would sit curled up in a comfy chair with a book (mmm new book smell) and the thought of sitting at a computer to read an entire book is not really appealing to me. I think my contacts would dry out. On the other hand, as a historian I relish in it because I can access books, pamphlets, laws (aka great resource tools) that in the past I never would have been able to get my hands on. If it is digitized it is hopefully searchable also showing researchers new records that past researchers have missed because they just didn't know they were there. I still don't want to read a whole book online but if it means certain texts more researchers, students, teachers can access I am for that. At the end of the day...I am still going to need to build a library addition on to my house.

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