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Interestingly, this is exactly the argument used to explain why reading books is better than watching TV: TV gives too much of the ready context, while a book allows the reader to fill in the blanks with his own imagination. The empty books just go one step further. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.246.11|108.162.246.11]] 22:15, 21 January 2014 (UTC) | Interestingly, this is exactly the argument used to explain why reading books is better than watching TV: TV gives too much of the ready context, while a book allows the reader to fill in the blanks with his own imagination. The empty books just go one step further. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.246.11|108.162.246.11]] 22:15, 21 January 2014 (UTC) | ||
+ | :I dunno, I mean, there's plenty of space in TV to work in stuff, exercise your imagination. In my view a book is for having stuff in it. A story in a book gives you a structure to build on, a framework that lets you build higher than you would go on your own. -Pennpenn [[Special:Contributions/108.162.250.162|108.162.250.162]] 04:19, 16 October 2015 (UTC) | ||
I write short stories all the time but nobody reads them. | I write short stories all the time but nobody reads them. | ||
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"Telling someone who trusts you that you're giving them medicine, when you know you're not, because you want their money, isn't just lying--it's like an example you'd make up if you had to illustrate for a child why lying is wrong." | "Telling someone who trusts you that you're giving them medicine, when you know you're not, because you want their money, isn't just lying--it's like an example you'd make up if you had to illustrate for a child why lying is wrong." | ||
− | + | I think it is worse when vets do it to cattle and sheep. You never get to hear the farmer saying "Bah!" | |
− | though. Odd, that. | + | though. Odd, that.[[User:Weatherlawyer| I used Google News BEFORE it was clickbait]] ([[User talk:Weatherlawyer|talk]]) 19:10, 22 January 2015 (UTC) |
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+ | Anybody else reminded of "The Library of Babel" by Borges? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.238.113|108.162.238.113]] 16:32, 14 September 2019 (UTC) | ||
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+ | Going way back to the 2013 comment (writing in 2021): there are excellent reasons to buy blank books. As you say, writing in them is a really good reason. Buying them to ''read'' is not, for my non-hallucinatory self, a good reason. [[User:Nitpicking|Nitpicking]] ([[User talk:Nitpicking|talk]]) 13:44, 18 September 2021 (UTC) | ||
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+ | Everybody here going on about the benefits of buying blank books to write and draw stuff. You guys know those are called notebooks, right? [[Special:Contributions/172.70.254.27|172.70.254.27]] 19:06, 21 July 2023 (UTC) |
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I would totally buy a blank book. I could hollow them out to make boxes, or wire up the insides to build a revolving door, or hire an artist to draw wonderful images in them to put on display for anyone who comes over to my home. Davidy²²[talk] 08:21, 9 March 2013 (UTC)
Interestingly, this is exactly the argument used to explain why reading books is better than watching TV: TV gives too much of the ready context, while a book allows the reader to fill in the blanks with his own imagination. The empty books just go one step further. 108.162.246.11 22:15, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
- I dunno, I mean, there's plenty of space in TV to work in stuff, exercise your imagination. In my view a book is for having stuff in it. A story in a book gives you a structure to build on, a framework that lets you build higher than you would go on your own. -Pennpenn 108.162.250.162 04:19, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
I write short stories all the time but nobody reads them. Maybe I should get a printer?
"Telling someone who trusts you that you're giving them medicine, when you know you're not, because you want their money, isn't just lying--it's like an example you'd make up if you had to illustrate for a child why lying is wrong."
I think it is worse when vets do it to cattle and sheep. You never get to hear the farmer saying "Bah!" though. Odd, that. I used Google News BEFORE it was clickbait (talk) 19:10, 22 January 2015 (UTC)
Anybody else reminded of "The Library of Babel" by Borges? 108.162.238.113 16:32, 14 September 2019 (UTC)
Going way back to the 2013 comment (writing in 2021): there are excellent reasons to buy blank books. As you say, writing in them is a really good reason. Buying them to read is not, for my non-hallucinatory self, a good reason. Nitpicking (talk) 13:44, 18 September 2021 (UTC)
Everybody here going on about the benefits of buying blank books to write and draw stuff. You guys know those are called notebooks, right? 172.70.254.27 19:06, 21 July 2023 (UTC)