Snippets, possibly boring

"Books are published at such a rapid rate that they make us exponentially more ignorant. If a person read a book a day, he would be neglecting to read four thousand others, published the same day." (p. 22)

"Our simple physical limitations make it impossible to read 99.9 percent of books that are written." (p 30)"

"Confronted with the choice between having time and having things, we've chosen to have things. Today it is a luxury to read what Socrates said, not because the books are expensive, but because our time is scarce. Today intelligent conversation and contemplative leisure cost infinitely more than the accumulation of cultural treasures. We now have more books than we can possibly read. The knowledge accumulated in our print culture infinitely surpasses the learning of Socrates. In a survey of reading habits today, Socrates would score low. His scant scolarship and his lack of academic titles, foreign languages, resumé, and published work would prevent him from competing for important posts in the cultural bureaucracy, which would confirm his criticism of the written world: The simulation and credentials of learning have come to carry more weight than learning itself."

Gabriel Zaid "So many books"
(pages 37-38)
(Sokrates ilmselt ei lugenud palju, kui üldse. Ta käis mööda Ateenat ringi ja küsis inimestelt küsimusi, kui ma ajaloo-kirjanduse tunde mäletan :D. Tema sõnad pani hiljem kirja Platon või keegi teine.)

"The cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more"

Nautike muusikat ka, mu uus lemmikbänd praegu.
Siin on lahedaid indibände veel

Ja lõpetuseks, sest nii see on, nagu mu vanaemale meeldib öelda:

"What does it matter how cultivated or up-to-date we are, or how many thousands of books we have read? What matters is how we feel, how we see, /---/, whether reading makes us, physically, more alive." (p 24)