Books
... is the point? If you need information about “wildlife in Africa”. Would you search the Net, and use an hour to sort out all the 3456667 documents it found? Or you could use an Encyclopedia to find it within a few minutes! This is only one example of things I’ve seen. I’m not saying that the Internet or computers are bad, or that schoolchildren shouldn’t use them, but that we must not forget about all the millions of books out there. Instead of using tax money on the Internet, why don’t they use the same money on public libraries and encourage kids to read and enjoy books. Learn them to let their imagination go anywhere they want. My second example is about the use of paper in books. Have you ever seen an business man sign a contract on a laptop? On a document that is saved on a computer? No, didn’t think so, and neither have I. They all use paperdocuments and other contracts, because they can use it as proof if something goes wrong. You can not edit paper documents without anybody noticing, as you can with a document on a computer. The PC will never tell….. What about the environment? ”We must stop chopping down trees in the Amazon!”. You hear about it all the time. “We must stop paper production!”. Well, yes, I do care about “Mother earth”, but there are coming better ways to produce paper and recycle as we speak. And in the future sometime we won’t have to cut down trees to enjoy the lovely paper in the books. Wee! That should make all the environmentalist happy, and keep the bookworm reading! How often do you hear about bestsellers? I hear about it very often, and that’s because books sell. Some sell in millions and others a few hundred thousand. The book and publishing industry is booming. They have big profits, and they keep putting new and exiting books on the market. I once found a “book” on the Internet. You could download it on to your computer and then read or print it out. Who on earth would print out a 500 page book? Not me, and I would not sit in front of my computerscr...