(March 26, 2013 at 5:02 pm)jstrodel Wrote: They had other serious forms of learning. Aristotle was schooled in Plato's school. The pythagoreens had their own school. The muslims and the thomists studied in universities. People took it seriously.
It is obviously not the concept of a book, it is the seriousness. Books are serious, the internet isn't serious. Wikipedia isn't serious. Harvard U Press is serious (whatever you think of Harvard, I don't like them, but it is serious).
So, does it count when people read eBooks? Or books online?