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treyf 22's List: 22_On_Reading
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Aug 22, 08
Review of * The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future [Or, Don't Trust Anyone Under 30]
* Mark Bauerlein
* Tarcher/Penguin (2008)
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Apr 28, 07
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Browsing the post-digital library (Prelinger Library)
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... the librarian in Robert Musil’s Man without Qualities, who has charge of the three and a half million volumes in the imperial library of Kakania. He has never read a single one of them, never gone beyond the titles on the spines and the lists of contents at the front, on the strength of which he can claim to have an incomparable vue d’ensemble of the literary world, one that would be ruined were he to have read whatever wretchedly small proportion of the stock he had time for.
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