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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> spike@rainier66.com <spike@rainier66.com> <br><br><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>>…place to post Extropian essays and poems… Ivor<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>…Well right. But Adrian, we don’t all have your talent, pal.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>…spike<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Ivor’s question has me thinking. The electronic media have a reach and scope that paper books can never match because few of us collect paper books anymore. But physical books have a big advantage that cannot be matched by the electronic medium: you can use a book to swat some annoying blister who won’t stop bothering you.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>There is a second advantage to paper books: they have a certain permanence that is difficult to match in the electronic medium. Once a prole prints out her thoughts and binds the pages, she can put the dusty old volume on a dusty old shelf and it will still be right there years from now, with even more dust.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Question please: if someone has a fun blog filled with stuff like math curiosities, and that person is a high school student who will be applying for a college in a coupla years, is there any advantage to printing out that blog, binding the pages and presenting it as a credential to the admissions board? Has anyone here ever heard of someone doing that? How much does it cost to publish about 10 copies with a hard binding?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>