If it was one or the other

[Elta]

If it was between using the public library (books only) or the internet to get your information which would you pick.?







Just wondering I go to Borders every pay check and buy a book ussually and it is never a novel (unless it's a manga)
when I see stuff like this
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060626/ap_en_ce/people_harper_lee_oprah

"Now, 75 years later in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books," she writes.

"You know what was good about the movie ... no reading."
I hate to see them ruin reading for kids with novels give them some naruto graphic novels with 10 times less words in it and I'd bet they would read 10 times more (and be willing).

 

[Godwynn]

I Wubs Wikipedia!

 

[Perfection]

The internet and my personel library pretty much provides all the information I need on a day to day basis.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

I choose books, because I'm a traditionalist.

 

[skadistic]

I'd have to say books. The interweb lies to much.

 

[vbraun]

Books tend to have better developed ideas than most websites, so I'd pick a library.

 

[Perfection]

Does it have to be a public library, what about a university library?

 

[Elta]

Does it have to be a public library, what about a university library?

It depends if it is a state university where they let the public use it or not (like UNLV)
since the artical was about how she was poor and what not.
(I know that probably doesn't make any sense to you but just roll with it I guess pretend your as crazy as me)

 

[shortguy]

Internet. It's convenient, and the public library here is awful. It probably has more paperback dime romance novels than legitimate works of literature.

 

[Birdjaguar]

I really like books and have quite a few, but for quick access to a broad range of topics the internet wins hands down. I'd be hard pressed to give up my collection of old atlases or books on Napoleon. I didn't vote.

 

[Narz]

I really like books and have quite a few, but for quick access to a broad range of topics the internet wins hands down.

Agreed.

 

[steviejay]

I'm a books fan, ok sure I could go online and find 1000 pieces of text on the rise of the Persian Empire and their war with the Greek City States, but I'd must rather go buy a book. I read books to relax as well as increase my knowledge. You can't really do both of those things by staring at a computer screen

 

[soul_warrior]

books are forever.

i like the well thought out ideas, as well as the magic of rummaging through the shelves for that one article.
the smell is nice too

 

[Gladi]

Bright day
Well seeing as I live in capital of my country so you would dozens of small township libraries into municipal main. AND I have easy acces to national library. Well books then, cross-referencable information, written by somebody.

 

[Gr3yL3gion]

Library, cause there's propably some hot bookworm there.

In internet, the person behind those feminine's nickname are most propably guys. In additional to that, not all information available are trustworthy, including wikipedia.

 

[The Last Conformist]

Since I can get pretty much all the books I need from the uni library (which isn't open to the unwashed masses), I suppose I'll chose the 'Net.

 

[covok48]

I said internet since it has pretty much has become my all-around media source (tv, radio, console system). But books have better developed ideas, are generally more throughly researched, and have been edited and reedited for accuracy and grammar mistakes so their ideas or points last with you longer.

 

[Simon Darkshade]

Books. I love all aspects of them, revering words and their power. They have their individual texture and aroma. They are a shared experience, particularly if from a good library.

Sadly, all of the libraries I am a member of went through a process of 'rationalizing' their stock, resulting in wholesale pulpings and disposals. It was like a part of my soulstuff was ripped out, trampled and thrown upon the flames of ignorance and convenience; a visceral pain and anger.

It is a very different feeling giving a young boy or girl a book you read and loved as a child - a world changing and defining experience - than it is simply giving them directions to a pale and vapid website that it, by its nature, transitory. Both lead to a shared knowledge, understanding and experience, but the former is far preferable, far more special.

 

[Eli]

As far as information is concerned and since many books can be found in ebook form, I'll have to go with the internet. But libraries and physical books have a special appeal that the internet will never have.

 

[Eukaryote]

Internet, the library's inconveint and it's hard to find information in books anyway.