[blackhole]

If Steve Jobs Says People Don't Read Anymore, Does This Headline Really Exist?

[Polpolion]

I guess The Divine Comedy counts as a poem, not a book. Rats!

[redsniper]

I read Star Wars books.

[Mefustae]

I read Star Wars books.

If it's anything but those awesome Republic Commando books, you deserve to be shunned by society.

[Ford Prefect]

Too bad Steve Jobs' text undermines itself through its inevitable dependence on indefinitely postponed, contextually produced meaning. So **** YOU, STEVE JOBS! I'M GONNA GO READ.

Wow, suddenly the thought of reading fills me with emptiness.

[redsniper]

I read other stuff too. Just finished 1984 a couple weeks ago.

[karajorma]

Well he is right about people not reading books. There are lots of people who don't read books and are proud of that fact (I've seen people announce that they've never read a book in their life as if that's an achievement! ).

It's the any more that's really silly. When did people read books then? The middle ages? Victorian era? When was this fictional age when most people read books?

Simple fact is that the world has always been split into people who read books, people who could and don't and people who never had the chance.

[Kosh]

It's the any more that's really silly. When did people read books then? The middle ages? Victorian era? When was this fictional age when most people read books?

Between the Great Depression and TV.

[Ransom]

books are gay

[Mefustae]

no, you're gay

[Flipside]

I love reading, to be honest, it's hard to get to sleep at night without a good book.

I find Playboy is best....

[Nuke]

playboy isnt even pr0n as i understand the definition of the word

i read 3 or 4 books in the dune series last year, which is probably the most books i read in a year. im not really a reader tough, i just like dune.

[karajorma]

Hell Playboy is actually more upmarket than lads magazines like Maxim and FHM. I can't see Arthur C. Clark or Larry Niven having written stories for either of those magazines.

[Flipside]

LOL Well, who needs mags when you have an Internet connection

Seriously though, I've been re-re-re-reading the Foundation Series by Asimov, there's something about that series.....

[CP5670]

The real issue there is not that people aren't reading, but that Apple does not have a competing e-book reader, so Jobs is trying to slag Amazon as expected.

I read stuff regularly but my reading list basically consists of various textbooks and monographs. Somehow I haven't gotten around to reading any fiction for years.

Seriously though, I've been re-re-re-reading the Foundation Series by Asimov, there's something about that series.....

It has been a while since I read those. I remember that the first book and the first half of the second one were outstanding, but the series became really weird with all the mind control business after that.

[Polpolion]

I read other stuff too. Just finished 1984 a couple weeks ago.

[Flipside]

Seriously though, I've been re-re-re-reading the Foundation Series by Asimov, there's something about that series.....

It has been a while since I read those. I remember that the first book and the first half of the second one were outstanding, but the series became really weird with all the mind control business after that.

Yeah, it struck me as a bit weird the first time round, but I do love the way it comes round full circle, so that you suddenly realise that this is still part of the same story that started in US Robotics and Mechanical Men 20 millennia beforehand, all of his 'series' are actually a single story stretched over a vast space of time.