I’d of finished War and Peace years ago but I can’t afford a new coffee table. I guess the wobbly stove is her excuse for the cookbooks. Gotta fix that stove.
Never needs recharging….
Works anywhere…
Line from some story or other… anyone who burns or defaces a book should be shot.
Kibble may come and Rocket Reader may go, but bound books are forever (just check your local landfill and see how many copies of the 1960’s phone books are still intact..)
Books also have a satisfying “object-ness” that is intertwined with their content. With digital readers, the gadget itself is an object, but the content is just data.
In my lifetime I expect to see mass-market printing to become the exception in publishing rather than the rule, but I’m hoping there’ll remain a healthy (even rejuvenated?) market for high-quality editions of serious or classic works. Hand-tooled leather covers, stitched (as opposed to glued) bindings, quality paper, fine-art illustrations…
I Luv books, good to read and so many other things. But yes who wants a set of encyclopedias that are out of date in a few years (or less). Library or online.
Yukoner about 14 years ago
Proves that you’re no dummy.
GROG Premium Member about 14 years ago
Works for me.
yyyguy about 14 years ago
how appropriate!
Llewellenbruce about 14 years ago
It will work as long as you don’t read it.
wetidlerjr about 14 years ago
Book him, Dano !
Joeboyzzq about 14 years ago
Thats a surprisingly thin book for its title
poppy1313 about 14 years ago
I had a davenport with a broken rear leg the I used 3 encyclopedias volumes to hold up. Best use I got out of the set :0)
parethed about 14 years ago
Put that in your Funk & Wagnall’s…
Mad-ge Dish Soap about 14 years ago
Surf the Webster.
Not a web slinger.
ArtyG about 14 years ago
My Encyclopedia Brittanica is a DVD, too thin to do any good.
ronaldmundy about 14 years ago
joe, what makes you think it’s not a deluxe edition?
Silentknight7 about 14 years ago
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA…
oh its a pun, but it’s a great pun.
I never understood how the dummy’s books survive, I ashamed to own one.
lewisbower about 14 years ago
I’d of finished War and Peace years ago but I can’t afford a new coffee table. I guess the wobbly stove is her excuse for the cookbooks. Gotta fix that stove.
gjsjr41 about 14 years ago
Joeboyzzq, maybe it’s volume one.
pearlandpeach about 14 years ago
i have Chess for Dummies…..it works, it is taking longer to lose to my pc.
“An Incomplete Education” is literacy for dummies, have the original and the revised edition.
Bany39 about 14 years ago
What no duct tape??
RadioTom about 14 years ago
Never needs recharging…. Works anywhere… Line from some story or other… anyone who burns or defaces a book should be shot.
Kibble may come and Rocket Reader may go, but bound books are forever (just check your local landfill and see how many copies of the 1960’s phone books are still intact..)
fritzoid Premium Member about 14 years ago
Books also have a satisfying “object-ness” that is intertwined with their content. With digital readers, the gadget itself is an object, but the content is just data.
In my lifetime I expect to see mass-market printing to become the exception in publishing rather than the rule, but I’m hoping there’ll remain a healthy (even rejuvenated?) market for high-quality editions of serious or classic works. Hand-tooled leather covers, stitched (as opposed to glued) bindings, quality paper, fine-art illustrations…
Ooops! Premium Member about 14 years ago
I Luv books, good to read and so many other things. But yes who wants a set of encyclopedias that are out of date in a few years (or less). Library or online.
pbarnrob about 14 years ago
Well, you could, but it prob’ly wouldn’t work afterward!
COWBOY7 about 14 years ago
Good thinking Uncle Cosmos!
wrmswt about 14 years ago
Mark Twain; Thin book to level the table Leatherbound to strop a razor Heavy book to throw at the cat