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"Accurate in some ways, an overreaction in others. What did we do while waiting in bank lines before we had cellphones? At best, we brought a dead-trees book. Nothing wrong with that, but it's not inherently better."

Really? How often do you check a feed or a news site or your E-mail, and find that either there is nothing new, or mere triviality, effectively nothing? Adding up all that time, you come out with nothing. At least with a book all that time adds up to having read a book.




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