Why do rich people read books and keep telling you to get books if you can get them free well if you have amazon ebook thing??

[WolfLoverPro]

I always hear rich people tell you to read but why books if you can just read everything online or even video?

[JoostinOnline]

This is one of the most nonsense posts I've ever read. It sounds like you've got your own issues to work out.

[PlayStation 2]

???

[straight_stewie]

12 minutes ago, WolfLoverPro said:

I always hear rich people tell you to read but why books if you can just read everything online or even video?

A book is still a book regardless of whether it's paper or a PDF, or the original word document, or even the version control "database" used to create it.

Also, please define "rich people"...?

[WolfLoverPro]

48 minutes ago, straight_stewie said:

A book is still a book regardless of whether it's paper or a PDF, or the original word document, or even the version control "database" used to create it.

Also, please define "rich people"...?

They clarify hardback books though never any other version + they say build a library of books shelves like they have which is a lot 

[straight_stewie]

6 minutes ago, WolfLoverPro said:

They clarify hardback books though never any other version + they say build a library of books shelves like they have which is a lot 

Who? Who are "they"?

[Bombastinator]

Rich people are old.  Old people like dead tree reading material.  It does have the advantage that it can’t be messed with and can be easier on the eyes.  They might mean read older or at least real books.  Online chat isn’t exactly herodatus.  Back when publishers decided what was worth printing a lot of the garbage got sifted out.

 

[vong]

People like showing off a big collection of physical books. Guess there's a bit of pride to it if they read all of it.

[mr moose]

A couple of reasons people recommend reading books over watching videos, documentaries or blogs:

 

When you read a book you generally have to read it through before you can decide if you agree or not and the only thing that is occurring when you are reading is your interpretation of the words on a page. Unlike today's videos which are typical made to be as entertaining as possible, often light on the details and qualifications and include a lot of extra information like music, visuals and historic photos/footage which can not only be irrelevant but also  are designed to lead the viewer into a specific mindset.  This can and does distract from proper critical appraisal (especially if you are looking for knowledge).

 

Also anyone can create a video,  you have to be fairy well established and backed to get a book published.  Yes there are shit books out their that are written solely to lead people astray (davinci code and their ilk etc) however it is much easier to find respected reviews on published lliterature and counter arguments from equally qualified (if not more qualified) people.  Unlike videos and their ilk you have to wade through a cesspool of websites and youtube comments to find anything that might be helpful in actually understanding the authors authority on said topic.

 

 

[WereCatf]

1 minute ago, vong said:

People like showing off a big collection of physical books. Guess there's a bit of pride to it if they read all of it.

A lot of people like to just claim they read all the books they've collected; many of them haven't actually read even a small fraction of them, they just like to pretend they are intelligent and educated and better than you. Someone having a large collection of books is not proof of them having read any of the books themselves.

[mr moose]

2 minutes ago, vong said:

People like showing off a big collection of physical books. Guess there's a bit of pride to it if they read all of it.

I used to have a a rather largish book collection.  For some of us it's just like any other collection.  I have had to thin it down though so my collection is basically science, religion and philosophy, cars and trains and The entire works of terry pratchett (still working on the stuff published after he died).

 

 

[Bombastinator]

30 minutes ago, mr moose said:

A couple of reasons people recommend reading books over watching videos, documentaries or blogs:

 

When you read a book you generally have to read it through before you can decide if you agree or not and the only thing that is occurring when you are reading is your interpretation of the words on a page. Unlike today's videos which are typical made to be as entertaining as possible, often light on the details and qualifications and include a lot of extra information like music, visuals and historic photos/footage which can not only be irrelevant but also  are designed to lead the viewer into a specific mindset.  This can and does distract from proper critical appraisal (especially if you are looking for knowledge).

 

Also anyone can create a video,  you have to be fairy well established and backed to get a book published.  Yes there are shit books out their that are written solely to lead people astray (davinci code and their ilk etc) however it is much easier to find respected reviews on published lliterature and counter arguments from equally qualified (if not more qualified) people.  Unlike videos and their ilk you have to wade through a cesspool of websites and youtube comments to find anything that might be helpful in actually understanding the authors authority on said topic.

 

 

In art they called it planar information.  There’s a bromide that’s goes “a picture is worth a thousand words”. There’s a certain point to it, but it can be taken several ways.  It’s much easier to BS someone with a picture.  One way to think of it is  Writing is serial, pictures are parallel.  An image comes at you in a single wave, and can evoke emotion and tertiary thought instantly.  Doing so allows one to inject stuff that might normally be rejected as garbage. It’s one reason pictures are so popular in ads.  It can be done with writing but it’s harder and tends to require so many words that people don’t read them.

[HempBoosh]

Rich people (or perhaps successful people) recommend reading books because it's one of the more productive and useful hobbies that you can have. It forces you to focus more on what you're doing and helps you gain some new perspective on a particular subject. That is if you're reading the right books. 

[Tomthehitman]

Who are these rich people you speak of?

[Sauron]

Reading a book online is still reading a book. Watching a video is not and your conflation of the two makes me think you haven't read a single book in your life...

[GrockleTD]

I got dumber for having had read the OP

[Sauron]

1 hour ago, mr moose said:

Also anyone can create a video,  you have to be fairy well established and backed to get a book published.

Nah, you can self publish so long as you have a bit of money and some publishers are willing to publish anything if they think it might sell... it's still important to be selective about what you read or at least be aware of the context they exist in.

[mr moose]

Just now, Sauron said:

Nah, you can self publish so long as you have a bit of money and some publishers are willing to publish anything if they think it might sell... it's still important to be selective about what you read or at least be aware of the context they exist in.

But they will not put to retail nor will it be advertised to any markets unless you are willing to stump up the cash for that too (a lot of cash).  I had a friend publish his own book (2 now).   You certainly won't find your book in any library or on anyone's latest release lists.  In fact the best you can hope for is they give it an ISBN and list it as available. 

[Bombastinator]

5 minutes ago, Sauron said:

Nah, you can self publish so long as you have a bit of money and some publishers are willing to publish anything if they think it might sell... it's still important to be selective about what you read or at least be aware of the context they exist in.

And then you have 6 cases of books in your living room that no one will read.  Self published anything had a truely awful reputation for a very long time.  I’ve only ever read one self published book.  The guy in the store warned me that it was self published. I was young.  I learned why self published book aren’t worth reading.  It was a rant about how Jesus was alive in the basement of the Vatican being fed on blood provided by the horrifically corrupt and vile organization that was the Catholic Church. Lots of broad analogies.  Very Anne Rand if Anne Rand had a deep problem with the Catholic Church instead of democracy.

[Sauron]

1 minute ago, Bombastinator said:

And then you have 6 cases of books in your living room that no one will read.  Self published anything had a truely awful reputation for a very long time.  I’ve only ever read one self published book.  The guy in the store warned me that it was self published. I was young.  I learned why self published book aren’t worth reading.  It was a rant about how Jesus was alive in the basement of the Vatican being fed on blood provided by the horrifically corrupt and vile organization that was the Catholic Church. Lots of broad analogies.  Very Anne Rand if Anne Rand had a deep problem with the Catholic Church instead of democracy.

Sure, I was just saying that the simple fact that a book was published isn't a guarantee of quality.

[mr moose]

1 minute ago, Sauron said:

Sure, I was just saying that the simple fact that a book was published isn't a guarantee of quality.

But it is a much better guarantee than any video or documentary. by a long shot.  The sheer cost to publish and advertise and ROI is so vastly different to Video publishers don't waste their time/money on halfa's. 

[Bombastinator]

1 minute ago, Sauron said:

Sure, I was just saying that the simple fact that a book was published isn't a guarantee of quality.

It can be an implication of it.  Sometimes a false one.  More often than not though any book published by a major publishe will have gone through slush (from which less than 5% of works survive) been edited at least once (usually more) and then reviewed and oked as salesworthy at several levels befor ever appearing at a store.  And that’s just the crap sci-fi/fantasy.

[Evolution.]

money overrated

[Haro]

what?

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