[extropy-chat] School libraries and skiffy

[Damien Broderick]

At 03:24 PM 11/7/2006 -0500, Keith Henson wrote:

>PS.  I went through about a dozen high school libraries in the San Jose
>area around 1995 looking at the books of my childhood (Heinlein, Clarke,
>Asimov and others) to see if the failure of those books to be read after
>some point in the early 70s was widespread, similar to what I had  noticed
>in my daughter's middle school.  It was.  I have no theory as to why.

The stories, settings and "Golden Age" voice were too antique? No 
cool kid, nor even a nerd, wanted to read skool library books? Those 
books were by then abundantly available in 2nd hand pb form, and had 
already been read or acquired or handed down? Bah--them kids today?

Damien Broderick