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Got to have the books, you know

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By ian martin
| The Daily Friend
“Why are you hoarding all these books?” This is what the millennial asked us, and he wasn’t the first to question our attachment to hard-copy reference material. “I bet you haven’t opened most of them in years.” He was right, of course. “Look at this. A full set of Encyclopaedia Britannica. What year was it published?” “1984. The year we were married.” “1984? That’s more than 40 years ago. You know how much knowledge has been accumulated in four decades? It’s all there on your smart phone.
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Overtaken by Tech

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By ian martin
| The Daily Friend
It was voice simulation that did it. He retired in 2006 at the age of 60, and I quit the rat race in 2010, also at 60. He was an insurance man and I was in construction, and I can say that neither of us was techno phobic or a luddite. In fact, we both welcomed the arrival of computers and the internet, as well as the early cell phones.
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INSPIRATION

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By ian martin
| Medium
Ian Martin · Follow 3 min read · -- “Oh! You’re a writer, eh? Where do you get your ideas?” Sound familiar? Yes, I’m sure it does. My answer is, I don’t know and I’ve stopped trying to find out. They just come. It might have something to do with what I read, though. A selection below, of books that I’ve kept close for a long time. In middle school, around the age of 13, we had a female substitute teacher in English who encouraged us to write plays.
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