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Old 02-24-2011, 03:29 PM   #28
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So at what point do books become irrelevant?

And why don't those of us who have this apparently mistaken idea that we actually like Tom Sawyer or Hour of the Dragon know that?
I didn't say they were irrelevant. Please don't put words in my mouth.

The original article says that we shouldn't buy books online, but ...
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if you've got an ebook reader, head over to Project Gutenberg and download thousands of works of literature for free.
I agreed that this is a fallacy. Just because a book is free doesn't mean it's something that most people are going to be interested in. Free classics are not a drop-in replacement for current literature.
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