Written by Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend: and inside a dog, it’s too dark to read. Groucho Marx
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Law of examinations
1. If you are given an open book exam you will forget your book.
2. If you are given a take home exam you will forget where you live.
Banned books
Open culture linked The internet archive in distributing a list and make the titles available at http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=collection%3Abannedbooks&sort=-publicdate), of previously banned books (fulla article at http://www.openculture.com/2010/10/74_free_banned_books_for_banned_books_week.html).
I think culture is also this: having masterpieces available to everybody at no cost.
This doesn’t mean you don’t always have to pay for culture (this discussion will take a lot of time), but a basic layer of commonly intended masterpieces should be available for free.
This post as a comment also at http://www.openculture.com/2010/10/74_free_banned_books_for_banned_books_week.html#comment-15135
Old books, new devices
Gina Trapani at Smarterware writes an article on Jeff Bezos behaviour of reading in bathtub using Kindle (full article at http://smarterware.org/3919/jeff-bezos-on-reading-in-the-bathtub).
This is my comment:
I use the ziplok when I go for a run under the rain with my Iphone… not expensive and safe 
I understand Jeff use, but I prefer a good paper book: maybe I don’t read it in the bathtub but has all a different experience in terms of sensations (because, yes, I really like the smell and feeling of paper under my fingers).
This post as a comment also at http://smarterware.org/3919/jeff-bezos-on-reading-in-the-bathtub/comment-page-1#comment-1342
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