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David, I don't think you can dismiss this view entirely, since I do subscribe to both the online and print version of the WSJ. I can scan a variety of stories by flipping pages in the print version, but I'm more likely to do a directed search in the online version. One doesn't replace the other (but probably will eventually). It's not a zero-sum game. And, why the need to defend the Web? Some folks say the same thing about airline travel--how car or rail travel gives you a better glimpse of the boring Midwest. Talk about a meme that won't perish.

The encyclopedia is something else entirely. You can sit down with a volume and be assured to see a series of well-research and edited entries, plus the maps which seem to be of much better quality.

I also scan library and bookstore shelves, but appreciate when someone I know who's knowledgeable a subject recommend a good treatment of medical genetics or poetry. And, what about attending a lecture or god forbid another tech conference or book signing? Could be very non-s'tous.

There's no reason not to want all these forms of edutainment (except broadcast tv) available with each striving for the highest quality....that is until we run out of trees.

My coincidence fixation find justice !

being in the same place, and I mean exactly the same place with others,
and meeting something by chance

this IS a space of coincidences

how could not be ?

Where's the pencils?

Non-erotic Japanese pencil carving.