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He was able to read over 1000 books and notes it as one of the positives. That is way more than most people will read in their lifetime. https://piks.nl/upload

He was able to read over 1000 books and notes it as one of the positives. That is way more than most people will read in their lifetime. https://piks.nl/upload/upload/chrome_2019-12-05_09-17-19.png https://piks.nl/upload/upload/chrome_2019-12-05_09-17-19.png This popped out for me because, having time to read, is always the first thing that comes to my mind about being imprisoned.

polytely 7y ago
I think that is changing though: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/incarcerated-pennsylvanians-now-have-to-pay-150-to-read-we-should-all-be-outraged/2018/10/11/51f548b8-cbd9-11e8-a85c-0bbe30c19e8f_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/incarcerated-pennsyl... I cannot fathom working on a product like this, to extract as much as possible from people who already have almost nothing. It makes my blood boil.
- nickthemagicman 7y ago
  Thats an absolutely terrible and ignorant and draconian policy.
- youdontknowtho 7y ago
  Pennsylvania is so backwards.
keiferski 7y ago
Malcolm Little essentially reinvented himself as Malcolm X while in prison, largely through reading hundreds of books. I suppose it was inevitable that as my word-base broadened, I could for the first time pick up a book and read and now begin to understand what the book was saying. Anyone who has read a great deal can imagine the new world that opened. Let me tell you something: from then until I left that prison, in every free moment I had, if I was not reading in the library, I was reading on my bunk. You couldn’t have gotten me out of books with a wedge. Between Mr. Muhammad’s teachings, my correspondence, my visitors—usually Ella and Reginald—and my reading of books, months passed without my even thinking about being imprisoned. In fact, up to then, I never had been so truly free in my life. http://accounts.smccd.edu/bellr/readerlearningtoread.htm http://accounts.smccd.edu/bellr/readerlearningtoread.htm
loeg 7y ago
I've read about 400 books and I'm 30 :-D. Getting there...

polytely 7y ago

I think that is changing though: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/incarcerated-pennsylvanians-now-have-to-pay-150-to-read-we-should-all-be-outraged/2018/10/11/51f548b8-cbd9-11e8-a85c-0bbe30c19e8f_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/incarcerated-pennsyl... I cannot fathom working on a product like this, to extract as much as possible from people who already have almost nothing. It makes my blood boil.

nickthemagicman 7y ago
Thats an absolutely terrible and ignorant and draconian policy.
youdontknowtho 7y ago
Pennsylvania is so backwards.

keiferski 7y ago

Malcolm Little essentially reinvented himself as Malcolm X while in prison, largely through reading hundreds of books. I suppose it was inevitable that as my word-base broadened, I could for the first time pick up a book and read and now begin to understand what the book was saying. Anyone who has read a great deal can imagine the new world that opened. Let me tell you something: from then until I left that prison, in every free moment I had, if I was not reading in the library, I was reading on my bunk. You couldn’t have gotten me out of books with a wedge. Between Mr. Muhammad’s teachings, my correspondence, my visitors—usually Ella and Reginald—and my reading of books, months passed without my even thinking about being imprisoned. In fact, up to then, I never had been so truly free in my life. http://accounts.smccd.edu/bellr/readerlearningtoread.htm http://accounts.smccd.edu/bellr/readerlearningtoread.htm

loeg 7y ago

I've read about 400 books and I'm 30 :-D. Getting there...