> Is it better to misrepresent contemporary beliefs as truth? The possibility that a modern book may be incorrect does not override the fact that older books a

> Is it better to misrepresent contemporary beliefs as truth? The possibility that a modern book may be incorrect does not override the fact that older books about rapidly changing topics (like the book on HIV/AIDS) will contain information which has been superseded or disproven, or that compilations of time-sensitive information (like the 1989 directory of self-help groups) are useless when they become outdated. > That book looks interesting, and the blogger's justification for weeding it is "I don't understand video game development"... The more detailed justification is: this is a simple book (48 pages, large type, lots of pictures) made for children. Nuances like "computers don't use BASIC anymore" or "the video game industry has changed a lot since then" are likely to be lost on them -- and, to be frank, there was never a lot of concrete information in the book to begin with.