The Merits of Reading Real Books to Your Children

[ekbell]

Originally Posted by LadyKate

Perhaps it is my age, but I understand the box set. In the 80s and 90s it was common to buy a "box set" of paperbacks. There would be a number of paperbacks in a lightweight cardboard box. (the image at this link is of a paperback box set https://store.scholastic.com/Books/B...r-Book-Box-Set )

It has carried over to ebooks where unless it is a set of a certain number of ebooks it should be named omnibus.

It's a pet peeve mostly becouse I think of separate books sold as a set when I read 'box set' (such as the Delphi Parts Editions or the Humble, Story & Baen Bundles) not an all in one (e)book.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by ApK

Who did you think needed an explaination of what "hang up a phone" meant?

Many people have never seen those phones outside of a movie.

And...."Crack the whip" is merely figurarive, not at all the same thing as the other examples.

Horses, Mules. Slaves
Teamsters (Have a look at their (the Union) current logo) Crack the whip was a very real "get working (faster)"

How many people stop and think of 'Why" we use that word or phrase.

Trivia time: Everythings Hunky Dory ?

Spoiler:

Easy Street (hunki dori) brought home from servicemen from Japan

[Cinisajoy]

Originally Posted by LadyKate

I would think that sitting back with your child on your lap or beside you, with the book open on a computer screen... large, in living color. Bright even... would be a wonderful way to read to the child.

Note I said specifically on an ereader. I was thinking the grayscale.
I agree with you on the computer or even better, a computer hooked up to a decent size flat screen tv. Especially the Dr Seuss books. That detail would be amazing.

[Cinisajoy]

Originally Posted by MikeB1972

Hell, I still tape things on my sky box, hang up the phone, dial a number, rewind/fast forward part of a program. Oh yeah, and carbon copy people into emails.

Terms people are used to generally stick around long after they are relevant.

Please do not carbon copy me, one of me is plenty.