Comments on: Take me out to the … library http://online.worldmag.com/2007/10/16/take-me-out-to-the-library/ A forum for discussion of news that arises at the intersection of Christianity and culture. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:46:45 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Samuel http://online.worldmag.com/2007/10/16/take-me-out-to-the-library/comment-page-1/#comment-226793 Samuel Wed, 17 Oct 2007 12:43:14 +0000 http://www.worldontheweb.com/2007/10/16/take-me-out-to-the-library/#comment-226793 The doctor's office is a great place to read a book while waiting. The doctor’s office is a great place to read a book while waiting.

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]]> By: kBells http://online.worldmag.com/2007/10/16/take-me-out-to-the-library/comment-page-1/#comment-226778 kBells Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:49:40 +0000 http://www.worldontheweb.com/2007/10/16/take-me-out-to-the-library/#comment-226778 Church. Oops I've done that. While grocery shopping. A great place to read in fast food restaurants with play places. Anlir, that two mystery of men I don't get; the sleeping while watching football and reading in the bathroom. It got to be a family tradition on Thanksgiving for the women to see how close we could get to the TV remote before the guys would all wake and shout "We're watching that." Church. Oops I’ve done that. While grocery shopping. A great place to read in fast food restaurants with play places.
Anlir, that two mystery of men I don’t get; the sleeping while watching football and reading in the bathroom. It got to be a family tradition on Thanksgiving for the women to see how close we could get to the TV remote before the guys would all wake and shout “We’re watching that.”

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]]> By: EYG http://online.worldmag.com/2007/10/16/take-me-out-to-the-library/comment-page-1/#comment-226773 EYG Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:25:30 +0000 http://www.worldontheweb.com/2007/10/16/take-me-out-to-the-library/#comment-226773 *custom. *custom.

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]]> By: EYG http://online.worldmag.com/2007/10/16/take-me-out-to-the-library/comment-page-1/#comment-226772 EYG Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:24:50 +0000 http://www.worldontheweb.com/2007/10/16/take-me-out-to-the-library/#comment-226772 My husband used to listen to books on cassette when we'd go shopping, and the kids were toddlers. I remember shopping for sewing material at the PX once (we all had sew-ladies to costum make clothes). The fabric-lady commented, "Your husband looks so content. They usually hate this section." We both looked at him. The kids were playing loudly in the cart, I couldn't make up my mind, and he was happily transported. "He's listening to a book on his walkman." I told her. She laughed out loud. "I knew he looked too happy!" My husband used to listen to books on cassette when we’d go shopping, and the kids were toddlers. I remember shopping for sewing material at the PX once (we all had sew-ladies to costum make clothes).
The fabric-lady commented, “Your husband looks so content. They usually hate this section.”
We both looked at him. The kids were playing loudly in the cart, I couldn’t make up my mind, and he was happily transported.
“He’s listening to a book on his walkman.” I told her.
She laughed out loud. “I knew he looked too happy!”

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]]> By: Xion http://online.worldmag.com/2007/10/16/take-me-out-to-the-library/comment-page-1/#comment-226753 Xion Wed, 17 Oct 2007 04:21:41 +0000 http://www.worldontheweb.com/2007/10/16/take-me-out-to-the-library/#comment-226753 I saw that interview with Stephen King and was ROFL because I too have noticed that Fox has a very high percentage of commercials per programming time. Are there statistics somewhere on this? It was especially funny since it was Fox who was interviewing him (big Fox logo on the mike) and also because you don't have commercials at a live game. Obviously he was making a dig at Fox's outrageous commercial time. I saw that interview with Stephen King and was ROFL because I too have noticed that Fox has a very high percentage of commercials per programming time. Are there statistics somewhere on this?

It was especially funny since it was Fox who was interviewing him (big Fox logo on the mike) and also because you don’t have commercials at a live game. Obviously he was making a dig at Fox’s outrageous commercial time.

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]]> By: paula http://online.worldmag.com/2007/10/16/take-me-out-to-the-library/comment-page-1/#comment-226733 paula Wed, 17 Oct 2007 02:54:23 +0000 http://www.worldontheweb.com/2007/10/16/take-me-out-to-the-library/#comment-226733 I had a wonderful OB, who spent a lot of time listening to his patients. Consequently he was always running very late. I learned to bring a book. So there I sat in that pathetic excuse for a gown on that... table... reading. Of course, the first thing we always talked about was my book! I had a wonderful OB, who spent a lot of time listening to his patients. Consequently he was always running very late. I learned to bring a book. So there I sat in that pathetic excuse for a gown on that… table… reading. Of course, the first thing we always talked about was my book!

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]]> By: hrw http://online.worldmag.com/2007/10/16/take-me-out-to-the-library/comment-page-1/#comment-226694 hrw Wed, 17 Oct 2007 00:22:25 +0000 http://www.worldontheweb.com/2007/10/16/take-me-out-to-the-library/#comment-226694 - in a middle school lunchroom - during a sex ed class - at a punk rock club at midnight on a Friday night - church - in a middle school lunchroom
- during a sex ed class
- at a punk rock club at midnight on a Friday night
- church

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]]> By: VS http://online.worldmag.com/2007/10/16/take-me-out-to-the-library/comment-page-1/#comment-226690 VS Wed, 17 Oct 2007 00:10:36 +0000 http://www.worldontheweb.com/2007/10/16/take-me-out-to-the-library/#comment-226690 I believe I posted this on here a year or so ago but here it is again - fits in with Peter's comment above: Announcing the new Built-in Orderly Organized Knowledge device, otherwise known as the BOOK! It's a revolutionary breakthrough in technology: no wires, no electric circuits, no batteries, nothing to be connected or switched on. It's so easy to use even a child can operate it. Just lift its cover. Compact and portable, it can be used anywhere--even sitting in an armchair by the fire--yet it is powerful enough to hold as much information as a CD-ROM. Here's how it works: each BOOK is constructed of sequentially numbered sheets of paper (recyclable), each capable of holding thousands of bits of information. These pages are locked together with a custom-fit device called a binder which keeps the sheets in their correct sequence. By using both sides of each sheet, manufacturers are able to cut costs in half. Each sheet is scanned optically, registering information directly into your brain. A flick of the finger takes you to the next sheet. The BOOK may be taken up at any time and used by merely opening it. The "browse" feature allows you to move instantly to any sheet, and move forward and backward as you wish. Most come with an "index" feature, which pinpoints the exact location of any selected information for instant retrieval. An optional "BOOKmark" accessory allows you to open the BOOK to the exact place you left it in a previous session--even if the BOOK has been closed. BOOKmarks fit universal design standards; thus a single BOOKmark can be used in BOOKs by various manufacturers. Portable, durable and affordable, the BOOK is the entertainment wave of the future, and many new titles are expected soon, due to the surge in popularity of its programming tool, the Portable Erasable-Nib Cryptic Intercommunication Language Stylus... I believe I posted this on here a year or so ago but here it is again – fits in with Peter’s comment above:

Announcing the new Built-in Orderly Organized Knowledge device, otherwise known as the BOOK!

It’s a revolutionary breakthrough in technology: no wires, no electric circuits, no batteries, nothing to be connected or switched on. It’s so easy to use even a child can operate it. Just lift its cover. Compact and portable, it can be used anywhere–even sitting in an armchair by the fire–yet it is powerful enough to hold as much information as a CD-ROM.

Here’s how it works: each BOOK is constructed of sequentially numbered sheets of paper (recyclable), each capable of holding thousands of bits of information. These pages are locked together with a custom-fit device called a binder which keeps the sheets in their correct sequence. By using both sides of each sheet, manufacturers are able to cut costs in half.

Each sheet is scanned optically, registering information directly into your brain. A flick of the finger takes you to the next sheet. The BOOK may be taken up at any time and used by merely opening it. The “browse” feature allows you to move instantly to any sheet, and move forward and backward as you wish. Most come with an “index” feature, which pinpoints the exact location of any selected information for instant retrieval.

An optional “BOOKmark” accessory allows you to open the BOOK to the exact place you left it in a previous session–even if the BOOK has been closed. BOOKmarks fit universal design standards; thus a single BOOKmark can be used in BOOKs by various manufacturers.

Portable, durable and affordable, the BOOK is the entertainment wave of the future, and many new titles are expected soon, due to the surge in popularity of its programming tool, the Portable Erasable-Nib Cryptic Intercommunication Language Stylus…

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]]> By: Peter L http://online.worldmag.com/2007/10/16/take-me-out-to-the-library/comment-page-1/#comment-226670 Peter L Tue, 16 Oct 2007 23:16:33 +0000 http://www.worldontheweb.com/2007/10/16/take-me-out-to-the-library/#comment-226670 <i>There was a great cartoon once that showed a librarian looking down at a patron standing among rows of computers and say, “Books? Oh, this is a library. You’ll have to try a bookstore.”</i> Then there was the one our school librarian had, that showed a little boy holding a book with an inquiring look on his face at the librarian’s desk. In the background are people using all kinds of audio/visual appliances with headphones, etc. The caption has the librarian saying: “It’s a book. It doesn’t have a switch, you just open it and read.” There was a great cartoon once that showed a librarian looking down at a patron standing among rows of computers and say, “Books? Oh, this is a library. You’ll have to try a bookstore.”

Then there was the one our school librarian had, that showed a little boy holding a book with an inquiring look on his face at the librarian’s desk. In the background are people using all kinds of audio/visual appliances with headphones, etc. The caption has the librarian saying: “It’s a book. It doesn’t have a switch, you just open it and read.”

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]]> By: michelle http://online.worldmag.com/2007/10/16/take-me-out-to-the-library/comment-page-1/#comment-226662 michelle Tue, 16 Oct 2007 23:02:49 +0000 http://www.worldontheweb.com/2007/10/16/take-me-out-to-the-library/#comment-226662 The Harry Potter mania reached a new high/low, when we dragged ourselves out of the Kenai River in Alaska, having just ridden a boat a bunch of miles into the relative wilderness, and found a bespectacled girl sitting on a rock and reading whichever one came out in 2005. In my own case, I read <i>The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night</i> all the way into the operating room for minor surgery. When they put the sheet over me, they took the book out of my hands and put it on the lower shelf of the gurney--which made it very handy when it came to finish reading it in the recovery room. The Harry Potter mania reached a new high/low, when we dragged ourselves out of the Kenai River in Alaska, having just ridden a boat a bunch of miles into the relative wilderness, and found a bespectacled girl sitting on a rock and reading whichever one came out in 2005.

In my own case, I read The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night all the way into the operating room for minor surgery. When they put the sheet over me, they took the book out of my hands and put it on the lower shelf of the gurney–which made it very handy when it came to finish reading it in the recovery room.

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