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Re: netLibrary
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark T. Bay)
Tue Mar 21 20:13:43 2000
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 21:19:45 -0600
From: "Mark T. Bay" <MBay@UH.EDU>
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OK, here's a technical issue relating to netLibrary that concerns me: the
default checkout is 24 hours. If you are looking up some quick facts, OK.
But, how do you deal with this when trying to read a novel? I am a pretty
voracious reader, but 24 hours for, say, a Zola novel or Don Quixote?
Print works better for that. I, and millions of other people, spend 6+
hours a day looking at a computer screen. I for one would NOT want to
stare at one in my off hours to read a book.
Call me old-fashioned, but I have to think there's a place for print, and
it will remain popular, way into the future.
Mark
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Murphy's Law:
If anything can go wrong, it will.
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Two wrongs are only the beginning.
Mark T. Bay
Education / Social Sciences Librarian
M.D. Anderson Library
University of Houston
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(713)743-9767
mbay@bayou.uh.edu
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