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The point of reading anything is to ingest a certain type of content. He chose the desired content and read it. The books he read were educational. Why should h
by B-Con 14y ago
The point of reading anything is to ingest a certain type of content. He chose the desired content and read it. The books he read were educational. Why should he ensure that a certain percentage of his books are "classics"? He could have gotten a lot (most? all?) of that information from various resources online, but the authors bundled it together into a book.
Maybe the books won't be classics in 100 years, but the information in them will either still be relevant then or will have shaped what society looks like by then.
- gbog 14y ago> The point of reading anything is to ingest a certain type of content. What an awful definition of reading. I do occasionally read books on this purely utilitarian basis, but reading is also done for other reasons, for example because you are completely engrossed in the story and just can't stop reading.
- B-Con 14y agoI'm using a more formal definition of "information". I don't mean trivia, facts, or geeky stuff, I mean "content". You read because you want to take in a certain type of content, be it a fantasy story, geek trivia, math, or tear-jerking romance. The definition is true pretty much by definition so long as the reading is self-motivated. In that light it may seem like a silly-obvious thing to point out, but the statement I was replying to was implying a more narrow motivation for reading.