Having the reference books on hand makes sense. I suppose it would be a lot easier to have them on hand to look up something quickly rather than having to download them all over again. As for the fiction, that is considerably at variance with my own reading patterns. If I just read parts of books and abandoned them I would feel like I was cheating myself, so it is hard for me to put myself in the place of someone who does read like that. That reminds me of something. There was the novel American Psycho. I wonder how many people abandoned that one who would have kicked themselves if there had been any way of knowing what was to come. For more than the first 130 pages it is an incredibly boring description of rich people trying to impress each other with the fancy restaurants they frequent, the fancy clothes they wear, the expensive cars they drive and so forth. Then for those who like explicitly gruesome descriptions of murder and torture the action starts. I doubt very much that the first part of the book could hold the interest of people who would like the last part.
_ _ _"Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most - that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least." - Eugene V. Debs
The Militant: http://www.themilitant.com Pathfinder Press: http://www.pathfinderpress.com Granma International: http://www.granma.cu/ingles/index.html----- Original Message ----- From: "Judy s." <cherryjam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, August 06, 2010 12:49 AM Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: books downloaded Roger, maybe this gives you an explanation of at least why I may hit 300 books downloaded in a 30 day period for this month. I don't intend to read them in the usual sense. Bookshare is uploading all the O'Reilly technical books. I happen to have computer systems with different versions of operating systems (Mac, two versions of Windows), and I also have a PC-based Apache server. So I'm downloading books that are reference manuals that I've wanted for a long time. At the same time, the new publisher quality books coming in contain reference manuals for programming in CSS and HTML that I've also wanted, so it's the same thing. So I'm downloading a whole lot of books at once. That way, in the future I have reference manuals at my fingertips, so to speak, every time I need them. I also regularly download more fiction books than I can read a month. I do that because I usually want to read a decent-sized excerpt from a book to see if I really want to read it. I usually discover that I only really like about one of every five books I actually download. The other four, when I open them up and read an excerpt, turn out to not be interesting to me, or are a style of writing I don't like, or not what I thought it would be. So I just wipe those files off, and keep only the books that I then know I'm actually interested in completely reading from beginning to end. Judy s. Quoting Roger Loran Bailey <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx>:
did not make that point explicit. The point I was trying to clarify with my metaphor of bookshelvs was my perplexity at why anyone would download more books than he or she could possibly read and, especially, why 300 per month would not be enough for anyone. It is, of course, fine with me if others do that, but I am still perplexed.
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