On 16/12/2013, Stephen Gregory <oclug [ at ] kernelpanic [ dot ] ca> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 5:29 AM, Rick Leir <rick [ dot ] leir [ at ] sympatico [ dot ] ca> wrote: > >> The OP RDay asked if we value books. A recent Eng grad from Carleton >> (Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering) told me that he >> never read a book. This is a big change since I was in university. >> > > How is that even possible? How is one able to understand Maxwell, Fourier, > Laplace et al without reading and rereading an accurate source (e.g. Not > Wikipedia). Was "book" defined to include e-books?