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Re:The Useless Agony of Going Offline by falcolas on Thursday January 28, 2016 @10:16AM (#10988600)
I'd be curious if the OP really is "better informed" or just imagines he is. What value does knowing what year an obscure book was published provide for his life in general?

Or is it another method of entertainment, as ephemeral as the football game on the TV?

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Re:The Useless Agony of Going Offline by jynnantonnyx on Thursday January 28, 2016 @10:41AM (#10988797)
> What value does knowing what year an obscure book was published provide for his life in general?

Agreed in general. In this specific case I should point out, however, that Things Fall Apart (1958) may be the most widely read piece of African literature. It's regularly assigned in college literature courses and is selling better on Amazon than either War and Peace or Neal Stephenson's Seveneves (to pick two that people here may have heard of.)

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Re:The Useless Agony of Going Offline by falcolas on Thursday January 28, 2016 @12:41PM (#10989729)
I learn something new every day. Oh, the irony. :D
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