Well, according to this quote from Andrew Keen’s book The Cult of the Amateur (posted by Tim Challies) all we need to do is start browsing to find out. …the inspiration behind this book comes from …, T.H. Huxley, the nineteenth-century evolutionary biologist and author of the “infinite monkey theorem.” Huxley’s theory says that if …

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Brian Cronin hosts a number of online columns under the umbrella title ‘Legends Revealed’. Topics covered include entertainment, sport, music, and more. Cronin takes popularly believed facts or rumours and determines whether they are true or false. The one I follow covers comic books: Comic book Legends Revealed. Since most of you probably wouldn’t follow …

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I’ve bought a book or two (thousand). Nothing really substitutes for the tactile experience of looking at shelves and shelves of books, handling them and browsing, and the aroma of books, whether ‘just printed’ or ‘aged and slightly musty’. But I’m a long way away from lots of bookshops. So ABEbooks.com have been a very …

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