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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
The fallacy of this comes in when newspapers are added to the mix... somehow, reading a newspaper alone while in public (even at a restaurant table) is something no one thinks twice about. So it truly is a prejudice against book-reading.
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That's a good point about the exception for reading newspapers alone in public. Personally I fell less self-conscious when reading a newspaper than reading a book. Although the book is usually a computer book, which may be part of my problem.
