Ah-but thats my point.
The last sentence is what I'm talking about. "Both offer suggested books based on what you looked up." The thing about libraries and bookstores - for me - (and I understand this may not be true of everyone, or even most people) is that I can stumble over all sorts of other interesting things to read while looking for material. With Amazon or B&N--they direct you to other material BASED ON what you were already looking up. I do use both services--but I'm not sure I'd run across material on Building A Log Home or Parasailing if I'd looked up books on How to Use a Digital Camera. In a place with printed books I could do so easily. Or hundreds of other books to peak my interest.
But I freely admit that if I'm looking for additional information on a particular topic-the internet is a wonderful place with all sorts of linkages.
And it may be that my mind is programmed along more ancient lines and its time for people like myself to be retired or retrained. But it saddens me to think it might be more difficult for someone to be a "Renaissance Man" (a well-rounded individual in terms of thought and knowledge). Then again-perhaps it is time for this type of person to be dead and gone.
