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galen  ·  3034 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Our (Bare) Shelves, Our Selves

    I wonder where this world is that newspaper writers live in, where ebooks have wholly superseded physical books rather than supplemented them.

I agree that this world doesn't exist, but I'm not sure that's a reason to discount the article. In that context the article should just be read as a warning rather than a lamentation, if that makes sense.

    Households with a larger number of books in them have children who have better reading ability, but perhaps that has more to do with the types of parents that stock large numbers of books in their home, rather than spontaneous discovery of books on shelves by presumably bored children.

I agree, and so do the authors of the article and the study:

    “It is a big question of whether it’s the books themselves or the parental scholarly culture that matters — we’re guessing it’s somewhere in between,” said Mariah Evans, one of the study’s authors and an associate professor of sociology at the University of Nevada, Reno. “The books partly reflect intelligence.”




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