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Originally Posted by delphidb96
You may well have hit it right on the head. How is a person supposed to "judge" the "character" of another if one cannot quickly glance at the titles (or lack thereof) lining that person's bookcase? Yep. I get the feeling that Nick Hornby is that shallow of a person.  |
Don't forget: There are plenty of people out there who will buy a book, piece of music, art, etc, because of its status (and what it supposedly confers to those who own it), as opposed to their interest in it. It's one of the things that bolsters bestseller lists, in fact.
The times, they are a'changin'. Where a wall of books formerly sufficed, now a laptop does the job... and as more students are adopting laptops to daily educational use, it's only a matter of time before the book is replaced by the laptop, or possibly something like an education-centric multifunction device, as the "symbol of scholarliness."