James over at “Under a Gibbous Moon” sent this too me. “Study: Rumors of Written-Word Greatly Exaggerated“ finds that the amount of reading we do each day has increased since the 1960′s.
Recently my father loaned me a guide book on skiing- the book is Skiing Skills by Rüdiger Jahn and it was written in 1980. While this normally would seem a rather random attempt to refresh my memory on skiing, since Katie and I are planning on slipping in a few trips this year it was actually a very nice gesture. The first thing I noticed was how well the book was built. It’s held together very well for nearly 30 years. The second thing I noticed was how wordy it was. This made me think about how so many trainings and how-to guides that have been created lately rely heavily on images and videos with minimal words.
