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Go read your e-book in a cafe, or go to the library. Problem solved. Argument ended and won.
He said that libraries in France are not usually open to the public. Read the article, please, before being so flip.
http://bibliotheques.equipement.paris.fr/tousleshoraires
12-7PM Saturdays, 10AM-5PM, 10AM-6PM. I seem to remember that as being the same as commercial hours?
Saturday is the 13th. I know it's a minor detail, but when I see something like that, I can't help but stop dead in my tracks and wonder if anyone took the time to give this a cursory once-over before publication.
Go read your e-book in a cafe, or go to the library. Problem solved. Argument ended and won.
don't think I agree with this. The environment of a bookshop invites smalltalk around titles and lookers. On a cafe people are much less inclined to such behavior and libraries, imho, attract a different crowd. At least where I am from, they tend to be used for education related work assignments and tend to be very quiet. I remember more than ten years ago, driving with my father for 40 minutes at 2:00 AM to go to a…
> I knew that it would be closing for good, though I was surprised to find that its fermeture definitive was to be this week, on Saturday, June 14th. Saturday is the 13th. I know it's a minor detail, but when I see something like that, I can't help but stop dead in my tracks and wonder if anyone took the time to give this a cursory once-over before publication.
Go read your e-book in a cafe, or go to the library. Problem solved. Argument ended and won.
I, too, am a member of the ebook master race. As a passionate and frequent reader, I'm awed by the revolution in portability, quality, availability provided by ebooks. ...but I can also afford them. When I was a kid, I spent every day in the local bookstore sitting on the floor, reading everything I could get my hands on. (Ironically, this was only possible at the larger bookstores and chains; the smaller indie types…
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I, too, am a member of the ebook master race. As a passionate and frequent reader, I'm awed by the revolution in portability, quality, availability provided by ebooks. ...but I can also afford them. When I was a kid, I spent every day in the local bookstore sitting on the floor, reading everything I could get my hands on. (Ironically, this was only possible at the larger bookstores and chains; the smaller indie types…
It's not very nice to casually use that phrase in your first line, you know. :)
But yes, I'm not a Nazi and I don't support the idea of master races (aside from ebooks and PC gaming).