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John Alsdorf's avatar

I love reading books. I’ll be 84 years old by the end of this month, was blessed to grow up in an era without even a TV in our home till my college years. But I gravitated toward computers, learning to program on a main-frame before the first PC, got a PC at the first opportunity, and have been basically addicted ever since. Still read books (50% on kindle) in good numbers.

I’ve been realizing lately that the biggest distraction from reading books these days is — SUBSTACK. It’s people, often friends or people who become virtual friends….people like YOU, my friend…who fill my morning inbox with tempting topics like “What does a post-literate culture look like?”

This is the paradox. Quite seriously, my kindle copy of “You are not your own” is showing something like 33% complete, while your Substack (and oh so many others) do get read, hearted, commented on!

What’s a serious reader to do?!

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Bill Barnes's avatar

Christ was most definitely a reader. At a minimum, he knew the Tanakh, seemingly, by heart. When the Pharisees came at him, "...Jesus answered them, 'You are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God.' Matthew 22:29

That keeps me motivated not only to read Scripture but to memorize it. At the risk of being melodramatic, they can burn my books but they'll have to erase my memory to get at what I've got stored up there...

...now if I only could find where I put my glasses.

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