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I quit reading books.

I just flat gave up.

There was no way to finish them all, so I'm not going to spend my time where there is not chance of completing the job.

Besides, if the Scripture is correct and there is nothing new under the sun (Ecclesiastes 1:9), then why spend time looking for something "new?"

 

Simply because there is nothing new under the Sun doesn't mean we cannot learn something from others.

Sounds like a good read brother evangelist6589.

 

I take note paper and make notes on it with the topic, page number and paragraph in the book where I can find the quote. Or maybe a passage is referenced so I make a note with the passage referenced, and what page it can be found on in the book. None of the pages in the book are ever marked. I then just keep the note paper in the book to reference.

 

I DIDN'T say I "do not like books."

I said, "I quit reading books."

But, then it was a tongue in cheek post as a reflection upon those who have great library's of books sitting needing dusting.

It isn't like the BB hasn't got more than a one poster who has said, "I read that book, and have it in my collection if I can find it." Really?

I quit reading books.

The reason:
There is not enough time to finish them all, so I wanted to spend my time doing something that could be completed before I shuffle off this earth.

Missing out on humor?

Warning!!!!!!!

There is an addiction to reading and collecting books.

A bit of history:
Michael Ridley quotes Polster who quotes Hoche:

"As Arnim Polster (“On the Abuse of Reading”, 1993) notes “by the 1780s, the phenomenon of children reading had come to be viewed by many German pedagogues with anxiety, if not outright alarm”. Polster quotes Johann Gottfried Hoche (1762-1836):

“compulsive reading is a foolish and harmful abuse of an otherwise good thing, truly a great evil, as contagious as the yellow fever in Philadelphia.”"​

Bibliophilia is a love of books and reading.

As with anything one loves, it can lead to obsession, and which is a form of addiction.

Not Warning!!!!!

To quit reading books because one acknowledges there is never an end to reading books and therefore considering it a waste of the time left doing what cannot be completed and to devote that time to other pursuits that can be completed is called "common sense."

"Common sense" is a sense that is generally held by the masses as to what is logical.

When I acquired skills of reading, I did not leave behind "common sense."

Jefferson wrote to John Adams that, ""I cannot live without books; but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object."

There is both humor and common sense in that statement.

But then some respondents to my first post obviously can read, but perhaps lack either common sense or discernment of humor.

And such will be the respondents to this post, too, if they think that I object to either reading or books.

 

I read this in a Good Book somewhere...

"The words of the wise are like cattle goads; the collections of the sages are like pricks inflicted by one shepherd.
My son, be careful about anything beyond these things.
For the writing of books is endless, and too much study is wearisome."​

Rob

 

I dare say there is not much reason to concern oneself over too much study, but of too little.