The amazing ebook world (Part 1)
My ebook library is now 3.6 GB, the biggest personal text library of anyone I know! I now almost own the COMPLETE WORKS of Ray Bradbury, Agatha Christie, Albert Camus, Carl Sagan, James Clavell, Dale Carnegie, Douglas Adams, Ernest Hemingway, Frederick Forsyth, George Orwell, Robert Greene, Ian Fleming, Isaac Asimov, J.K. Rowling, J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, John Grisham, Michael Crichton, Philip Pullman, Richard Dawkins, Richard Feynman, Roald Dahl, Robert Ludlum, Robin Cook, Sidney Sheldon, Stephen King, Tom Clancy, and Will Durant.
I also own the major 20th century writers like Hemingway, Kafka, Steinbeck, Salinger, Sinclair Lewis, Bertrand Russell, and hundreds of classic authors like Shakespeare, Homer, Plato, Milton, Dickens, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Dumas, Twain, Emerson, Sun Tzu, Chekhov, Gogol, Plutarch, Machiavelli, Cervantes, Casanova, the King James Bible, Darwin, etc. plus major Chinese classics like "Journey to the West" and "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms"! All I downloaded from the Internet.
We are unbelievably lucky in this age to have unprecedented access to millions of books at such low cost. My mom, who grew up in poverty, would struggle to borrow her beloved books. In her country, books would often be stolen from the city library. She could not afford to buy them and would beg one of her richer neighbors for a book from his personal library, which he kept locked up. Books were so precious then.
Nowadays, so many of us barely spend ANY time reading books. We barely can write grammatically correct sentences any more. At the same time, we now have access to the knowledge of gods, but we so often take it for granted and never spend the mental effort to acquire and digest this knowledge.
I also own the major 20th century writers like Hemingway, Kafka, Steinbeck, Salinger, Sinclair Lewis, Bertrand Russell, and hundreds of classic authors like Shakespeare, Homer, Plato, Milton, Dickens, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Dumas, Twain, Emerson, Sun Tzu, Chekhov, Gogol, Plutarch, Machiavelli, Cervantes, Casanova, the King James Bible, Darwin, etc. plus major Chinese classics like "Journey to the West" and "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms"! All I downloaded from the Internet.
We are unbelievably lucky in this age to have unprecedented access to millions of books at such low cost. My mom, who grew up in poverty, would struggle to borrow her beloved books. In her country, books would often be stolen from the city library. She could not afford to buy them and would beg one of her richer neighbors for a book from his personal library, which he kept locked up. Books were so precious then.
Nowadays, so many of us barely spend ANY time reading books. We barely can write grammatically correct sentences any more. At the same time, we now have access to the knowledge of gods, but we so often take it for granted and never spend the mental effort to acquire and digest this knowledge.