Zack Hill by John Deering and John Newcombe for August 11, 2013

What’s a book?

knowledge can be dangerous. some places, they burn books from their local library(the books don’t fit their worldview). to gain knowledge online, one must sacrifice privacy(nsa must know everything, and uk pm must ban anything racy).

“It tells me that goose-stepping morons like yourself should try ‘reading’ books instead of BURNING them.” Henry Jones

That’s otay, kid. After the hammer falls, all that stuff will be firewood…

I wonder what Zack’s doing here?

Someone asked me recently if I had seen a particular new movie. I told him I was still catching up on all the old ones. The same applies to books. But, don’t suggest an e-reader. Most of what I read is long out of print in any form. It takes a good library or used bookstore to find them.

Oddly, I just read a book on my iPad that was written in the year (approximately) 380 CE. I read a newer book in paper format the day before.

I used to work at a public library and one day I took a phone call from a woman who asked if we had any books. I waited for her to finish her question by mentioning a subject. Nope, that really was the question: Did we have any books? I assured her that we had hundreds of thousands of books. She seemed relieved and hung up.