The joys of Reading.

From: Contemporary Review | Date: September 1, 2002| Author: Wedd, George | Copyright information

BACON said 'Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man'. (I recall a favourite undergraduate howler: "'Eating maketh a full man" (Bacon)'.) We are told that the age of the printed word between hard, or even paper, covers is passing. It has had a long run. Half a millennium of moveable type: well, we cannot justly complain if it is replaced by something intangible, ethereal and electronic; just as long as 'the Word' remains. 'In the beginning was the...

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