04-13-2011, 04:17 PM | #31 | |
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This was interesting, too. Quote:
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04-13-2011, 04:31 PM | #32 |
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That's a lot of trees dying in vain.
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04-13-2011, 05:24 PM | #34 |
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Makes sense to me. Most people I know don't read books.
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04-13-2011, 06:04 PM | #35 |
Is that a sandwich?
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I start many books that I don't finish. Perhaps, only 30% completed.
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04-13-2011, 06:05 PM | #36 |
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20% of billions of people is more than enough to base a successful business around.
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04-13-2011, 06:37 PM | #37 |
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04-13-2011, 08:27 PM | #38 |
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strangely enough, my parents seem to balk whenever i want to buy a physical book, probably because it's so expensive here! thank goodness for ebooks
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04-13-2011, 08:42 PM | #39 |
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04-13-2011, 08:44 PM | #40 | |
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1/3 of high school graduates never read another book for the rest of their lives. 42 percent of college graduates never read another book after college. 80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a book last year. is horrible --- especially the last one! |
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04-13-2011, 08:51 PM | #41 |
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04-13-2011, 08:57 PM | #42 |
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04-13-2011, 08:59 PM | #43 |
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My Mom read Library books frequently, even after her stroke.
New (purchased) books almost never. Used books, all the time. Same in my house. I would say less than 10% of my purchased books do not make it to completion (I got sucker into a author that was not to my reading style) Note: It took me years to finish Mischner's Hawaii , but I finished it. Our house is littered with books. My wife's and mine (the cat like sleeping on them) 2 out of the 3 kids have big paperback collections. |
04-13-2011, 09:36 PM | #44 |
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I remember when you could buy paperback books with the covers torn off at a huge discount. If memory serves (and it probably doesn't) it was something like ten cents on the dollar. These were books that hadn't sold and had been returned to the publisher.
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04-13-2011, 09:42 PM | #45 |
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Yep, cause all they had to return for credit was the cover....
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