Books and the HomoSapiens. / myLot

September 23, 2016 7:56am CST

Isn't it ironic how people who are always active in social media circles are known as 'social' and the people usually sitting in the corner with their book propped open are considered 'unsocial' It's really surprising as well as perplexing, in a sense, to note how society's definitions of certain aspects have changed over the time. Yeah, smartphones have provided us with much easily accessible sources of knowledge, but is there anything comparable to the feeling of discovering a long forgotten dog-eared book from the very depths of a rusty old bookcase? I think not.

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topffer

@topffer (42156)

• France

23 Sep 16

You are doing a caricature, but it is not entirely false. Yes, nothing better than to re-discover a lovely forgotten book full of dust and molds

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Tridib Kanti Patra

@Tridib14 (177)

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23 Sep 16

Exactly @topffer! That's what I'm talking bout. And that characteristic smell of old books. Bliss.

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KURASALA RAVI KUMAR

@crafty01 (481)

• Jamshedpur, India

23 Sep 16

Yes, after a couple of decades , so called generation next will be amazed that we used to carry heavy hard bound text books to schools and colleges.

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Tridib Kanti Patra

@Tridib14 (177)

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23 Sep 16

Yeah, like we were amazed when we first saw the floppy disks.

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marguicha

@marguicha (223885)

• Chile

23 Sep 16

I could accept the definition of "social". But I don´t think the company of a good book could be considered "unsocial" or "antisocial".

Tridib Kanti Patra

@Tridib14 (177)

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23 Sep 16

@marguicha 'Unsocial' in the sense that the society promptly brands most book lovers as 'nerds' or 'geeks' which eventually segregates them. I myself was a 'nerd' in my high school years, though being on the football team definitely made me not a full time one.